Comments on: Showtime Dumps DVD Screeners http://gigaom.com/video/showtime-dumps-dvd-screeners/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:44:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Showtime Comes to iPhones « NewTeeVee http://gigaom.com/video/showtime-dumps-dvd-screeners/#comment-454305 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:33:35 +0000 http://newteevee.wordpress.com/?p=3089#comment-454305 [...] Showtime Comes to iPhones Full seasons of Showtime’s original series are coming to iPhones and iPod Touches in April. BUT they’ll be password protected, so as to only be available to voting members of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The app, powered by mobile video startup Transpera, is part of Showtime’s ongoing efforts to move away from DVD screeners for Emmys voters, following on the network utilizing web streaming powered by Brightcove to distribute its shows to voters last year. [...]

]]> By: heddy http://gigaom.com/video/showtime-dumps-dvd-screeners/#comment-454304 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:52:31 +0000 http://newteevee.wordpress.com/?p=3089#comment-454304 as it would eliminate the risk of any advance copy DVDs making it into the wild.

Eh, the shows are already out there in HR quality anyway… there’s not the danger of DVDs of TV content being pirated in the same way as the movie stuff is…

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