Watch Full Episodes of The Office and 30Rock on m.nbc.com
 

I was watching some NBC shows online on my laptop and saw a link on their site to NBC Mobile (http://m.nbc.com), where they advertised that you could watch full episodes of 30 Rock and The Office.

I visited the site on my N800 and, as advertised, they have several episodes of both shows as streaming video files (.3gp). When you click on a "Watch Now" link, the resulting page just has an media file icon on it, but if you click on that, it opens the stream in Media Player. You can put Media Player into full screen mode and the video quality is quite good. The stream does seem to have to buffer a bit, but that may be a result of my network, not the service. The episodes are broken into smaller parts, so you don't have to start from the beginning of the show each time.

Considering that previous web-based TV sites, like Hulu or the regular NBC online, haven't worked so well on the N8x0, this is a great advance. Hopefully this is just the start and they will add other shows next (Chuck, please!)

It seems to be powered by some company called Starcut (http://www.starcut.com/), because m.nbc.com redirects you to nbc.starcut.us

Note: I have my browser set to emulate the user-agent of the iPhone (to use the iPhone Gmail interface). Can anyone confirm that this works with the regular MicroB user-agent?
UPDATE: This site appears to only work if you have the user-agent set to mimic iPhone.

Note2: This site is restricted to US IP addresses.

Re: Watch Full Episodes of The Office and 30Rock on m.nbc.com
 

I can't seem to get to the site (m.nbc.com). Get a error that I haven't seen before - 'Redirect loop, Endless redirection of request for this address'. I use the dead standard Mozilla Brower that ships with 2008.

Re: Watch Full Episodes of The Office and 30Rock on m.nbc.com
 

yeah i get that same error....

Re: Watch Full Episodes of The Office and 30Rock on m.nbc.com
 

I also have my user agent set to iPhone and I can see the website with no issues...

Re: Watch Full Episodes of The Office and 30Rock on m.nbc.com
 

Viktorfrankl and pieter_jh- are you in the US? This site may be restricted to US IP addresses, as are many of the TV network online video sites.

Re: Watch Full Episodes of The Office and 30Rock on m.nbc.com
 

I am in the US and I get the same message. By the way, if I change to the other browser (Midori?) I don't get the message, but instead get a "this needs flash" type message. I'm not sure how to fix that with the Midori browser.

Re: Watch Full Episodes of The Office and 30Rock on m.nbc.com
 

I get the 'country unauthorized' error if I access m.nbc.com from a desktop browser, but when I switch to my iPhone I can view the videos just fine from that site. Even with the same ISP.

Yes, I'm not in USA.

Re: Watch Full Episodes of The Office and 30Rock on m.nbc.com
 

OK, I guess we have confirmed now that this only seems to work if you have changed the user-agent to the iPhone agent. The site is really designed for WAP phones, so I guess they are redirecting anything that isn't a true phone (or is pretending to be via the user-agent.) It also appears to have some country-authorization.

Sorry for the disappointment for those who this didn't work for. Still, I think it bodes well for the future that more and more content like this is being made accessible via mobile devices.

Re: Watch Full Episodes of The Office and 30Rock on m.nbc.com
 

Yes, useragent override to iPhone works for me.

Re: Watch Full Episodes of The Office and 30Rock on m.nbc.com
 

This one works, but it's not smooth going. If more people try to access, perhaps they will increase the bandwidth?

MSNBC Mobile
mms://msnbc.wmod.llnwd.net/a275/e1/video/100/vh.asf