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Following up to this morning's post, a blue and green birdie has chirped some interesting news into our ears: Could the Channel 4's video-on-demand service soon make a bow at the iTunes UK store? Currently a Windows-only offering, an iTunes-based 4OD service may soon launch with an initial 180 hours of programming. If so, this is fantastic news for UK Mac users who can not otherwise use the service.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Stuart said 4:14PM on 8-09-2007
That will be good news, I imagine it'll be free like 4od then right?
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Wil Stobbart said 4:48PM on 8-09-2007
This could be great (Channel 4 comedy is the best in the world) - I think 4oD only offers free content for a short period after the original airdate (during which time its repeated on its various freeview sibling networks anyway) and then its payed for (99p per episode I think is the norm) - it would make sense for iTunes to adopt a similar model.
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Mo said 4:54PM on 8-09-2007
Ignoring the technical issues (4od's current platform uses the godawful Kontiki delivery system), the model is very very good indeed: free catch-up downloads on a lot of recently aired stuff, as well as educational portion of the catalogue, whilst everything else (that's available) is relatively cost-effective.
Provided they keep that model, I'm all for it, and it'll have the bonus that it'll work on Windows too (so I can uninstall the Kontiki rubbish).
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krisjones1963 said 5:00PM on 8-09-2007
I hope this is right. Some of us UK Mac users have corresponded with Channel 4 and the industry regulator, OFCOM, about being locked out of 4OD. There was some suggestion at the time, albeit somewhat muted, that if iTunes started to make TV programmes available in the UK, Channel 4 would consider it. Hopefully such a move would encourage the BBC to make their content available too.
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a_tolbert said 3:33PM on 9-03-2007
please put channel 4 in the US iTunes Store! :P
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Pete White said 10:31AM on 8-10-2007
This would be great news - 4OD sucks but channel 4's programming is awesome. Been wanting something like this on iTunes for a while.
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dMick said 10:24AM on 8-10-2007
Awesome News!!! I can't wait to download 'Green Wing' because it's not available on DVD here in the states.
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dalasv said 9:13PM on 8-12-2007
Does this mean we Americans could change our iTunes Store location to UK and download the cool British TV shows we don't get here? If so, AWESOME.
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Mayank said 7:24AM on 8-16-2007
i am fan of itunes & apple products. I believe that this channel would also do some innovative things like there products..
Also wondering when iphone & this channel would be coming to New Delhi (India).
http://www.delhi-india.net/
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