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How It Works
Splitsider Presents is a digital comedy store selling great comedy directly to you. There are no hoops to jump through, and you don't need to hand over your identity. Buying is simple and straightforward; you don't need a credit card or an existing account. You can complete payment and be watching a show in seconds, choosing to pay via either Amazon or Paypal.
Splitsider keeps only 20% of the cost of the purchase after transaction, bandwidth and legal costs, with about 70% going directly to the artist.
You can stream your purchases on whatever device you like, or download them to your computer to keep forever in DRM-free file formats.
Purchase/Playback Info
For $5 you get 5 HD or SD DRM-free downloads and 3 streams, allowing you to watch on your computer or any other device. You can choose to pay via either Amazon or PayPal, and you'll be able to log into the site whenever you want to re-download or stream your purchases.
Need Help?
Buying and watching shows on Splitsider Presents should be simple, quick and undemanding, but if you run into trouble, we have an excellent <A href="http://splitsider.com/store/docs/help">help section and customer service</a> to assist you.
On Get A Life: The Community of Its Time
The Awl has put up intelligent posts about the Nielsen rating system in the past. This is just silly: "In reality, executives are not assassins of art so much as they selfishly attempt to maintain a job. They tend to green light and keep programs that make money for themselves and their bosses. Usually those shows are similar to those before it because they can see with empirical data that they have worked before." If it's somebody's job to make sure their company brings in advertising dollars by putting out popular television shows, that's not selfish, and it shouldn't surprise people when less popular shows are cancelled? I love Community and 30 Rock, but I'm not shocked to read about their low ratings, and it would be understandable if NBC pulled the plug on them. That doesn't make television executives bad people, or uninformed people, or jerks, it makes them people who are doing their jobs (which somebody has to do) to the best of their ability using imperfect data. If NBC was run by AVClub commenters, it would have gone bust a long time ago!