TV Guide has just released its official, free app for the iPad [iTunes link].
The application features television listings, the latest news from TVGuide.com, video clips and episode sneak peeks.
The app also has a built-in social component that lets users share what shows they are watching or are excited about seeing via Facebook
TV Guide isn’t the first television-focused listings and news app for the iPad; the Yahoo Entertainment app and What’s On TV? HD [iTunes link] have been available for months.
Still, TV Guide for iPad offers direct access to TVGuide.com as well as an updated television guide. And the app might be able to edge out from the rest of the pack with its video offerings.
Right now, as part of its “Fall Preview,” the TV Guide iPad app includes access to the first episode from the new Showtime series The Big C. In addition to the numerous prongs of Showtime’s social media marketing campaign for this show, the channel is also offering a language-edited version of the pilot online.
TVGuide.com is a pretty solid resource for gaining online access to commercial TV shows, and we hope that the iPad app will continue in that direction in the future.
Do you currently use your iPad as a TV listings guide? What app is your favorite? Let us know in the comments.
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Posted by: realityloop |
August 24, 2010 7:44 PM$1.99 for an iPad app is cheap. Most are $3+ and that is after having bought the app on an iPhone or iPod. I have never pirated software as I have too much repect for the devs who produce such great work, but we were sold an iPad that would run the apps we'd already purchased. While not quite an outright lie, it certainly was not the truth. Again, it sounds like this dev is charging a decent price for his product. Other developers who have tripled or quadrupled prices for iPad have created a feeling of distrust. When people feel ripped off, they are far more likely to 'return the favor' by downloading another app for free when given the chance. This situation will only worsen if people are asked to buy their apps a third time for Apple TV. Especially since the iPad is 100% capable of sending it's signal out to a TV but is blocked from doing so (except for a handful of video apps) by Apple. Yes the idea of running some of the apps and games presently on your iPhone or iPad on a large screen TV sounds great, but it should be possible to do so without buying the same products (hardware and software) over and over and over again.
Posted by: Sue |
August 24, 2010 7:52 PMI think Sue makes some great points. While I don't own an iPad, I think I'd be a little upset if I had to pay for an app again (assuming I'd already purchased it for my iPhone), or pay a lot more for the iPad version, especially if the iPad version didn't offer any more functionality than the iPhone version. In instances like that I could definitely see where piracy rates could be higher for the iPad app.
In order to install pirated apps you first have to jailbreak your iDevice though, so if the piracy rate on the iPad really is higher, does that mean the jailbreak rate on the iPad is also higher? Or maybe that iPad jailbreakers pirate more apps than iPhone jailbreakers? Or both? (fwiw, I've not jailbroken my 3GS, though I did jailbreak my old unactivated 3G using jailbreakme.com, just to see what all the fuss was about).
Posted by: Jason W. |
August 25, 2010 7:07 AMTheir idiots.
Maybe I liked the game and handed it to one of my friends, who registered for the game leaderboard seperately
Posted by: your mother |
August 25, 2010 8:14 AMPiracy could actually destroy some of these app developers which would mean there would be fewer apps on the app store.
Posted by: iPad |
August 25, 2010 11:53 AMGood post ! it certainly was not the truth. Again, it sounds like this dev is charging a decent price for his product. Other developers who have tripled or quadrupled prices for iPad have created a feeling of distrust.
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