Thanks a lot NBC – for providing yet another glorious way for me to fritter away masses of time entertaining myself via the iPhone, instead of doing 27 things I should be doing!
That’s right – NBC’s iPhone optimized site (not sure if it’s new or old) now offers full episodes of two excellent sitcoms, The Office and 30 Rock. Currently there are only a couple of episodes (the two most recent) available for each of the shows, but hopefully the number of past episodes and the number of different programs covered, will be expanded in future. In addition to the two sitcoms’ full episodes, there’s also a pretty decent selection of other NBC content to distract yourself with.
There are a ton of previews / trailers and excerpts from recent episodes of popular NBC shows, including lots of Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien clips. One of my favorites in this area was the ‘Ask Tina’ clips, where Tina Fey (30 Rock star and creator) offers answers to viewer submitted questions.
All the clips and full episodes worked without a hitch for me today, and 
loaded quickly. The only glitch I saw was when a (work-related) phone call came through to my phone, the video was completely out of sync with the audio when I went back into an episode, and I had to restart it to get it going nicely again. May need to just put it in Airplane Mode when watching stuff in future 🙂
The full episodes of The Office and 30 Rock are broken up into four segments per episode – so you can’t just click once to watch the whole thing, which is mildly annoying, but not so much that it would, say, drive me back to doing anything productive.
You can mark items as favorites, so they’re easy to jump back to later on. One thing that’s missing right now is any sort of search capability. Hopefully that will be added very soon – as there are a whole lot of pages in some of the main sections, and it is not quick and easy to navigate back to something cool you saw on Page 7, for example, when you’ve already browsed ahead to Page 23.
If you’re a fan of The Office, 30 Rock, other NBC shows, or just wasting a little more time during your work day, you may want to check out NBC’s new iPhone offerings – to do so, just head over to:
Via: iPhone Alley
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