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  ZOMG CENSORED, Apr 25th, 2006 @ 9:39am

  
  

  I'd buy it

  There's some shows I just do not have access to, and instead of paying a huge chunk of change for a box set, or waiting for a box set to rent a single disk, I can go and buy these shows. I'd rather not watch on a tiny screen when I have a huge ass tv at home (56 inch).

   

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  Alara Moonrunner, Apr 25th, 2006 @ 9:50am

  
  

  This could work....

  If there was enough diversity and low prices or a lot of extras to offset the $50+ that people would spend on said boxsets. If neither is done this could drive amazon down a little bit because then they would have all these DVDs and yet no one is buying them.

   

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  rwwise, Apr 25th, 2006 @ 9:58am

  
  

  Cost is the selling point

  If I missed a particular show and could get it shipped to me for a low price. Say less then 3.00 including shipping. I would probably go for it if I was really vested in the show. Amazon could make its money back on advertising at the beginning of the disc.
  
  I mean come on how much would it cost to ship with a netflix like envelope 50 cents? And the cost of the CD 10 cents? Cost to modify the content 15 cents. Cost to produce the CD 5 cents (Remember the bulk and automation) Cost of the Content 1.00$ R&D cost over the first 10 million discs 50 cents. So amazon just made 70 cents without counting advertising. And the profits go up after they recoup the R&D costs.
  
  Sounds good to me.

   

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  nullsmack, Apr 25th, 2006 @ 10:05am

  
  

  I would almost do something like this and cancel cable tv.. I don't watch very many shows nor do I like to pay $55+/month for basic and "extended basic". That doesn't even include movie networks or most of the other cable networks.

   

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  Harry, Apr 25th, 2006 @ 12:32pm

  
  

  Re:

  good point

   

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  Jeremy, Apr 25th, 2006 @ 10:31am

  
  

  Like others have said

  Cost will be the key. I don't have television in my house anymore prefering to just watch dvd's of my favourite movies or tv shows. This would allow me to get those same shows commercial free relatively soon after they air. I would be interested. Depending on the cost of course.

   

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  SuckerPunch-tm, Apr 25th, 2006 @ 10:53am

  
  

  Here is what TV should do

  Run the show on TV, like usual.
  The very next day, they should make the previous nights episode available online.
  
  For free you get: a streamed version, with unskippable commercials at the beginning and right before the end of the episode.
  
  For a small fee, you get the episode streamed for free with NO commercials.
  
  For a slightly larger fee, you get a downloadable episode, able to save it however you want. It will come with commercials but you may skip over them.
  
  As extras, at the time the episode is created TV studios shouldalso be creating additional content to go along with the show. Instead of waiting for the episode airing to go back and THEN creating additional content (actor/director commentary, behind-the-scenes, etc...), why not make it part of the process of making a show?
  
  Lee

   

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  Anonymous Coward, Apr 25th, 2006 @ 11:21am

  
  

  Gotta remember that Amazon now has a digital locker which can be used to download content immediately.

   

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  Sikretong Malufeet, Apr 25th, 2006 @ 11:25am

  
  

  DVDs

  This could work to those kind of people who, because of work or for any other reasons miss their favorite TV Shows. Yes they can download thru bittorrent but they can only download the more popular ones (TV Shows). Alternatively, use PC TV then time and record it (from Cable signal, etc.), but the mentioned two ways of catching up with your favorite TV Shows also post some ups and downs, e.g. electricity bill (your PC will be set to record the show), "pixelated" or slightly dark/blurred video recorded, etc. So for a working person, this could be what they're looking for. Can't wait for my pirated copy, I kid I kid.

   

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  Robert Johnson, Apr 25th, 2006 @ 11:26am

  
  

  How about rentals?

  I remember trying to rent season one of 24 shortly after season two started airing, and having to visit three stores to find episodes in stock. Even low qulaity, no extras releases of popular shows should rent very well, and maybe is a way for those of us without Tivo to time shift our viewing.

   

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  Alec, Apr 25th, 2006 @ 11:43am

  
  

  Fantastic!

  I'd buy them, depending on price and quality. If they're better quality than iTunes (not difficult) and the price is similar to iTunes per episoide, I'm all in. Almost all of my time TV viewing time these days is keeping up with the 5 or 6 quality TV programs I enjoy, and I'm always behind. It's also important that these episodes are commercial-free. Amazon...always thinkin' (tm).

   

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  Anonymous Coward, Apr 25th, 2006 @ 12:00pm

  
  

  Netflix by episode

  Maybe they can make a netflix sort of thing....
  
  Pay monthly, unlimited per month, limit out at a time
  
  with the 1 ep DVD's

   

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  Bryan, Apr 25th, 2006 @ 1:05pm

  
  

  Re: Netflix by episode

  I'm Director of Marketing at Peerflix, and I think our site would be a perfect fit for these DVDs. A rental market through Netflix is an option, but for people that would rather buy the DVD it's good to know that they wouldn't be stuck with them forever. My guess is that very few people would watch them more than once. Buy it on Amazon and trade it for something else on Peerflix when you're done.

   

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  Tashi, Apr 25th, 2006 @ 12:14pm

  
  

  It's long overdue. This is the model many media corporations are afraid of.

   

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  Jaime Martin, Apr 25th, 2006 @ 12:19pm

  
  

  Problem with doing a "netflix" deal...

  is that netflix is currenlty suing blockbuster for copying their DVD rent-by-mail model. so unfortunately, it probalby won't happen that way, although it would be great! :)

   

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  tom, Apr 25th, 2006 @ 12:41pm

  
  

  Good idea

  since no matter how many TV shows are made available on iTunes, I can't buy any of them - as they're not for sale in my localised version of iTunes, and I'm not allowed to buy from the US iTunes store.
  
  Good article, but the contention pre-supposes the reader is American.

   

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  hop sing, Apr 25th, 2006 @ 2:21pm

  
  

  why not old shows?

  Why don't they release videos of old TV shows, back to the 60's, 70's, 80's? The master tapes surely still exist? Probably political.

   

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  Darrel, Dec 20th, 2006 @ 12:16am

  
  

  Re: why not old shows?

  I totally agree with your comments.Ive been wanting to purchase the Arsentio Hall Show with Will Smith as an guest 1991 and cannot purchase the dam thing.

   

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  Robinson, Apr 25th, 2006 @ 2:25pm

  
  

  Foreign TV

  I don't know how big of a market this could have, but I would definitely buy recordings from foreign TV. Lets say you want to see shows from Italian or Hungarian TV -- almost impossible now. This would be of course usable only to people speaking the language since there would be no subtitles. But since there are so many people in US from somewhere else, this type of thing should have some market.

   

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  Louis, Apr 26th, 2006 @ 2:40am

  
  

  I`d buy it. I live in Germany. And everything here gets dubbed to German. Everything.

   

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  Darrel, Dec 20th, 2006 @ 12:14am

  
  

  Hard to Find TV Episode

  The records stores in the San Francisco area are selling old school TV Episode by records numbers.I personally dont understand why the Major networks dont sell the product to the consumers.There is an high demand for these TV Episode such as Late Night TV Johnny Carson Arsentio Hall Show ETC....

   

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