What happened to free pilot episodes for TV Shows?

Question

There are some TV shows that I've either never watched, or aren't available to me because they air on premium channels I don't have. I know for a time, a lot of shows had their pilot episode available for free. It was nice to be able to sample the show before spending any money on more episodes or full seasons. One episode of a show isn't that pricey, but when there are 5 or more shows I want to see for the first time, it can get expensive, especially when some premium channel shows episodes are $4. And why don't they rent TV episodes for like $0.99? Some shows I do want full seasons of to buy, but others I just want to catch up on and watch once. I don't see why offering free pilot episodes would hurt, is there a chance that will happen again?

Answer 1

rexford82 wrote:
> Since Adobe took this over, free extensions have gotten
less and less. That was
> the whole point of this forum. I dont blame Adobe, I
blame us! Greed, whatever
> has taken over. Most of us got paid at work to create
these things. I'll share
> (for free) anything I can do. What happened? We all paid
a lot of money for
> this program, which adobe deserves, it is an incredible
program, but lets help
> each other out here. Like the old days! Rex
The point of this forum is to help folks get extensions
working or perhaps to find an extension that does a specific
function, it was never to focus on free extensions. Not quite sure
where you've gotten that idea from, but I've been a frequent
visitor to this forum for at least 6 years and it's never been "the
whole point of this forum".
When it comes down to it, when you get beyond very basic
functionality, it takes a lot of effort and knowledge to create a
really useful extension, if you're willing to put that effort in,
then please by all means post what you've done so that others can
see what you've done. Others are already doing their share as there
are plenty of free extensions out there, the Adobe Exchange lists
865 free extensions when I searched and filtered on Freeware:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?searchfield=*&search_exchange=3&search_cat egory=-1&search_license=3&search_rating=&search_platform=0&search_pubdate=&Submit=Search&n um=10&startnum=1&event=search&sort=0
My employer WebAssist also has several, to name just a few:
PalettePicker:
http://www.webassist.com/professional/products/productdetails.asp?PID=147
PayPal eCommerce Toolkit:
http://www.webassist.com/professional/products/productdetails.asp?PID=18
Dreamweaver Tools for Google™:
http://www.webassist.com/professional/products/productdetails.asp?PID=132
Danilo Celic
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