NBC Direct Launches with Little Fanfare

After dropping out of their contract with Apple to sell TV episodes on iTunes, NBC’s own site, NBC Direct, is finally up. It’s NBC’s version of a TV show download site, and as Engadget reports, it seems to work, with a few caveats:

1) Shows are free, but only available for seven days.

2) Once you download one, you only have 48 hours to watch it before it disappears.

3) There’s no Mac support.

4) The installation is complicated and involves NBC’s own app, Windows Media Player, and “all sorts of hoop jumping.”

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