TV Becomes More Non-Linear

The clamoring for the on-demand TV world, it can be argued, gain traction TiVo. Then, networks put pilots for some of the hottest shows for the Fall '05 season on the web. Then, the iPod w/Video was released, and the iTunes music store started carrying ABC's Desperate Housewives, Lost, and Night Stalker. CBS is in talks to provide content for iTunes sometime in the future.

But the on-demand TV world became even bigger, by adding TV shows to, well, on-demand! CBS and NBC have announced that some of their biggest prime-time TV shows will be avaliable as "on-demand" products, for $0.99 an episode. The iTunes services charges $1.99 for the internet download. (Thus putting TV against the internet.)

NBC will be making Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The Office, and Surface. USA's Monk and Sci-Fi's Battlestar Galactica will also be avaliable on-demand. All of those shows will be avaliable through DirecTV. CBS will add CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, NCIS, Survivor, and The Amazing Race to Comcast in markets served by CBS-owned TV stations. (includes LA, Chicago, Dallas, Philly, Baltimor, and outlying NYC)

The episodes will be avaliable for purchase hours after they originally air on the respective networks.