Deal of the Day: “In Treatment” @ $0

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If you’re looking for ~6 hours of premium content for your PC or TiVo, Amazon Unbox is giving away the first 15 episodes of HBO’s “In Treatment.” I assume HBO is bankrolling this promotion in hopes that we love the series and end up subscribing to service via our cable or satellite provider, and/or they’re testing the waters prior to making the entire series available for sale online. (via TiVo Lovers) In other online video news, it looks like Hulu may be released from beta later this week.

7 thoughts on “Deal of the Day: “In Treatment” @ $0”

  1. Interesting… By default, ony two episodes are downloaded to my TiVo. I have to initiate transfers of the remaining episodes via my online “media library” – I assume this is prevent Unbox content from overtaking my TiVo hard drive and preventing scheduled recordings. Unfortunately, the media library loads slowly and these episodes aren’t in numerical order. Not a huge deal, just an observation. And I get what I pay for… ;)

  2. I was following this show on iTunes as well (where the first 15 episodes are also available, for free.) Then they stopped giving them away for free and since there was no way to purchase subsequent programs and I’m not going to get HBO just for this, I let it go.

    I think the full “season” is around 40 or 45 episodes.

  3. Episodes are also available on HBO.com and YouTube. But these are PC oriented viewing not for your living room.

    Plus not all episodes were available when I checked both sites.

    I remember hearing that HBO was going to put all episodes for free online but I don’t know where i’ve heard that.

    I’ve been watching In Treatment Comcast on demand since I’m an HBO subscriber. Unfortunately that means i have to wait a week for the shows to appear on the On Demand channels.

  5. Christina, where did you hear the full season was 40-45 eps? I thought Dave was right, and that Amazon had posted the entire season. Is that correct or is there really 40 some eps??

  7. Ben, I read it somewhere on Television Without Pity. I may be wrong with the count, though Dave seems to confirm what I’ve seen. Also, Dave didn’t say 15 episodes was a full season. It’s five episodes per week for eight weeks, something like that.

    HBO.com did have 15 episodes up, but now it only had two minute recaps of the episodes that came after that. Youtube doesn’t have full episodes after 15, either. I don’t know how this worked for HBO, but it was a turnoff for me to not have any way to see the program other than getting a pay channel. I would have been willing to pay iTunes.

    But I might be an aberration and it was a wildly successful marketing effort.

  8. I’m not really clear why I’m subscribing to HBO anymore. I loved Sopranos. I loved Deadwood. But those have been gone for some time now, and there’s nothing I’ve seen that justifies continuing to pay for the channel really. The new shows I’m watching lately, like Dexter, Californication and Weeds have all been on Showtime oddly enough. Reminds me I need to call up Comcast and drop the thing until they come up with something new.

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