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Free NBC television shows in HD

By | September 11, 2008, 10:28am PDT

Summary: NBC is offering one free High Definition episode of each  a dozen different television shows. They’re great to show off of the HD quality of the shows and a good way to try before you buy. You need to have iTunes 8 installed first though. (The following links will open in iTunes) 30 Rock Battlestar Galactica Eureka Heroe In Plain Sight Lipstick [...]

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Jason O'Grady is a journalist and author specializing in mobile technology. He has published six books on Apple and mobile gadgets and his PowerPage blog has been publishing for over 15 years.

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Jason D. O'Grady

Jason D. O'Grady is the creator and editor of O'Grady's PowerPage, which has been publishing mobile technology news since 1995. He maintains an advertising relationship with the following legacy advertisers on the PowerPage:

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Jason D. O'Grady

Jason D. O'Grady developed an affinity for Apple computers after using the original Lisa, and this affinity turned into a bona-fide obsession when he got the original 128 KB Macintosh in 1984.

He started writing one of the first Web sites about Apple (O'Grady's PowerPage) in 1995 and is considered to be one of the fathers of blogging. He has been a frequent speaker at the Macworld Expo conference and a member of the conference faculty. He also co-founded the first dedicated PowerBook User Group (PPUG) in the United States.

After winning a major legal battle with Apple in 2006, he set the precedent that independent journalists are entitled to the same protections under the First Amendment as members of the mainstream media.

O'Grady is the author of The Nexus One Pocket Guide, The Droid Pocket Guide, The Google Phone Pocket Guide, and The Garmin nuvi Pocket Guide (Peachpit Press), the author of Corporations That Changed the World: Apple Inc. (Greenwood Press), and a contributor to The Mac Bible (Peachpit Press). In addition, he has contributed to numerous Mac publications over the years, including MacWEEK, Macworld, and MacPower (Japan).

When he's not writing about Apple for ZDNet at The Apple Core, he enjoys spending time with his family in New Jersey.

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HD or just HiRes?
Johnny Vegas 11th Sep 2008
Are they really HD or just high resolution? What's the bitrate?
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RE: Free NBC television shows in HD
nothingness 11th Sep 2008
I tried downloading the Hero episode then the download time came up to be more than 10 hours. 10 hours for a tv show? No thanks.
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It's the 21st Century, sport...
msalzberg 11th Sep 2008
upgrade that dial-up.

It took me about 30 minutes to download the HD and
standard episodes of Hero (and last night's Countdown, as
well). If your ISP is 1/20th the speed of mine, get a new ISP.
Yours has serious issues.
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Well...
JT82 11th Sep 2008
he might have Comcast...so then he may be right...how bout Comcast upgrading their 20th century policies?
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And this will die....
JT82 11th Sep 2008
because of Comcast and them putting the insane 250GB cap on peoples lines. Once more broadband companies start putting data transfer caps on peoples lines - these options wont look as appealing.
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iTunes? Who needs iTunes for Windows?
Grayson Peddie 11th Sep 2008
I'm glad iTunes is not in my computer.
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