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- michaelg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+97And the RIAA and MPAA are so baffled why people continue to pirate music and movies. You try to buy a simple CD and get a root kit on your computer. You try to watch a movie, but are so limited in capabilities (such as only one device, or one computer). It's so ridiculous and then we get thousand dollar fines for getting around all their ***** because those geniuses who are so greedy and stubborn to care about the consumer. It's all so backwards.
- SniperX, on 10/12/2007, -5/+68The description of this story is DEAD ON. For a movie that looks perfect on the ipod sure i'd drop $5, and I understand some people are not financially able to afford $5 for every movie, but there has to be some sort of balance between them making a profit and us affording many many possible downloads.
But the poster is right, $9.99 is just way too much for a vidcast quality movie download. I'd certainly just drop the $15 over the $10 to own the domain and rip it myself.
That, or lets be honest, drop $0 to get it "by other means". - antipro, on 10/12/2007, -11/+58yeah it doesnt even have Lizzie McGuire in it
- markperia, on 10/12/2007, -10/+54god's name is Bram Cohen?
- soundman414, on 10/12/2007, -28/+62yeah that is a bunch of BS. thats why i would never ever buy content from itunes. DRM sucks butt and it costs out the butt
- ThorIsGod, on 10/12/2007, -6/+34This is why god made bittorrent.
- stutteringstan, on 10/12/2007, -9/+33Wow, talk about inflation!
- frontpage, on 10/12/2007, -5/+28"god's name is Bram Cohen?"
Yep, for those of us without cable television every Friday night after Battlestar Galactica airs, Bram is indeed God. Thanks God! - carthis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Well, this isn't even half VGA. 320x240 is QVGA (quarter VGA) because you're cutting half of each dimension, and therefore getting a quarter of VGA.
$9.99 USD is really out there. Like everybody else is saying, DVDs are cheap as hell for last year's movies and even cheaper than this crap. I think it's Disney that's made this stupid move, not Apple. Apple was really digging their heals in about the $0.99/song thing, not wanting the prices to fluctuate. I don't see them doing something this retarded. - betovarg, on 10/12/2007, -7/+21Judman: True that, Double True! And then they ask why we download from limewire and bittorrent.
- lukas88, on 10/12/2007, -8/+22go to redbook, rent it for a dollar, rip it with the ASPI layer workaround, and you have a movie for 1 dollar. Burn a copy for all your friends to maximize cost effectiveness.
yep, stickin it to the man - ross., on 10/12/2007, -1/+15"but it only takes like one minute to download, much better than goin to blockbuster."
I don't know how you're getting fibre to the curb, but on my 1.5Mbit connection, it would take 52 minutes, in which time I could have gone to Video Ezy (Blockbuster for our American viewers), got home, ripped the movie, burnt it, and be watching the burnt copy, even before the download was finished. And I'd be $8 better off, and have a higher resolution version with extras and surround sound.
Anyone know if this download is even in widescreen? - mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12that's what i do.. my library gets newer releases than blockbuster.. and its completely free!
- microbreak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11if you are going that route...why not rent it from the library for free?!
- jeolmeun, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11We should just support our local libraries by giving them everything thing you don't watch or listen to anymore.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Quality might be an issue though. I know I can maximize the quality if I rip and transcode it myself, stuff over BT or other P2P services is a mixed bag at best.
- deut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Well let's face it, us Brits are suckers for getting ripped off. iTunes USA = 99cents, that should make the UK price about 57p right? WRONG...
We are charged 79p instead, a premium of 39%. Even taking into account exchange rate fluctuations and taxation I feel that's excessive profiteering
By that rational, the movie would cost about £7.99. - saysaknow, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11A quick tip: Check out the free DVD check outs from your local library. Some libraries sell books and movies. I got all 3 Matrix movies for 50 cents a piece.
- SirNuke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8If Apple's goal is to drive Video iPod sales, they will succeed (the whole point of iTunes is to drive iPod sales, so I am confident this is a safe assumption). If the MPAA's goal is to sell some movies into nearly pure profit to a few people, they will probably succeed. However, if they want to compete with BitTorrent, they still have a long way to go, and this certainly isn't in the right direction.
- Obsydian, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Yeah, the people that buy those are like my brother-in-law, they just don't care about the fact that the reason t costs $20 is because of Sony's proprietary UMD's. Go dI hate that crap. Everything they do is proprietary. Not only that but at least you own a physical object. $10 for that is just asking too much.
I think $20 for a UMD movie blows too. - Rotkiv, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9serious, I'm pretty sure they play it 3 times a week, in fact my sister is watching it right now on disney channel, in this same room, this very second. but hey, we're not their demographic, hence we don't see why.
- r3zonance, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13But people are paying for Sony's UMD movies, which are only marginally higher resolution. And they cost similar, if not more.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11I'd 9.99 for a movie if it were full length and the compression was reasonable, and the resolution was the same as the original. But by half VGA does he mean 320x240? If so, that's horrible.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+16"I got all 3 Matrix movies for 50 cents a piece."
You were ripped off then :) - TigerX, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10It seems that the soundtrack for that particular made for TV movie has been quite popular on iTunes...
- ronmexico, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11We should all steal the movie, that's how the economy works!
- rahul.kishore, on 10/12/2007, -17/+23I'm thinking the average consumer will buy it, I'd totally buy a box office hit move for 10 bux considering its cheaper than buying the DVD. And i don't feel guilty if I were to just rip it when I get it from Netflix.
- prockcore, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8DVD's are cheap. Seriously. I picked up a bunch of movies just yesterday (one of them was Equillibrium another was Groundhog Day) for $7.99 at target. Even brand new movies are between $12-15.
Why would I pay more for less? This is the same reason UMD's are sucking. - ghostaliaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Looking I already pay $80.00 a month for my dishnetwork sat tv & I am sorry I am not paying apple or any other big company any more money, inless I loose my mind. I say everyone buy a dogon tunercard & create their own content for there ipods or other media player. Personally that is what I do & I do not & will not use a Ipod because of the DRM crap on it & I do not think it is as great as everyone else thinks it is. If apple was selling a rock, then these suckers would say yes apple I am going to go buy your special rock, well I am not & for all of the goofballs that keep saying that apple was the firsy to create an mp3 player is on something apple is not the first company, they were just the first company to steal the idea like them and Microsoft do best. I just do what I want to with my media player and I do ot care what the gov or what these blood sucking companies think or say because as long as I pay with my money that I earned, then they can catch a finger & I am not going to even pay them $2.99 for a tv show , when I am already paying $80.00 a month for Sat tv, so I am going to record it with my dvr or tuner card and then encode it & then put it on my Zen media player & I do not give a FFFF, as long as I do not share it with the world, as far as I am concerned.
- Pinion13, on 10/12/2007, -8/+14A netflix account and a dvd burner is more cost effective and much higher quality. :)
- montanna, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6If Apple is testing the water, has Disney already pee'd in it?
- apotropaic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5So is not even DVD quality? And I'm just assuming that you can't burn it on a DVD either... this is terrible
- MisterKen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7$10 for a Post-It Note sized video of a gawd awful Disney made for TV movie?
I can only guess that a 'real' movie will be $20 or more.
Someone is on the crack pipe at Apple... - JoCliMe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I don't think it's a question of what the movie is. They need to have a price for all movies, just as a price for all songs, and a price for all TV shows. Regardless if it's made for TV or the theatres.
- Trjn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5""I got all 3 Matrix movies for 50 cents a piece."
You were ripped off then :)"
$1.50 for The Matrix seems like a good deal, and you get a few frisbees as well. I'd have done the same. - jedi55555, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7And the entertainment industry scratches their head trying to figure out why people download illegally. They seem to think that the quality of their content (picture and audio) has no bearing on what people will pay. Watch out because once the next generation of video hardware comes out (either BluRay or HD-DVD) and they make it even more difficult for the normal user to copy a movie to put it in their computer and portable device the entertainment industry will have no problem trying to sell movies online for $15 to $20 a pop.
- DarkSideofMoon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6How else would you pay for it? Download the content and tell Steve, "Yeah yeah, don't worry... I'm mailing the $1.99 tomorrow. Trust me..."?
- Lacero, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Netflix account > MacTheRipper > It's all good...
Now, I'm not saying you should pirate movies because it's bad karma, but paying $10 for DRM'ed 320x240 videos and hosing your own bandwidth is even worse. - D-Man, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10Surprisingly, yes... I was shocked to see that the movie not only appealed to the young children (5-10 yrs old) but also filtered up to the teenagers and high schoolers...
Shocking? Yes.
Kudos to the cast n' crew, though, for having such success... - luke--, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4wow.....this is bad for apple. If they would have introduced it at 9.99 no one would have cared (they have a lot of 9.99 content out there)/ but now that people had noticed the 1.99 price before apple corrected thier mistake....oh man
- 16x9, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4$9.99 is way WAY too much for a low resolution movie.In my opinion...
$2.99 for iPod resolution
$4.99 for standard NTSC (traditional broadcast TV) resolution
$9.99 for full 1080p resolution
Why should the movie industry sell the same content for differing amounts of money you ask? Because THEY are the ones convinced of and promoting the concept that we, their customers, are stealing them blind. And the fact is that a "stolen" iPod version of a movie will have less value to my supposed "underworld connections" than will an NTSC equivalent version of the film. Which in turn will have less value than a full hi-rez version.
But more importantly, that's as much as I'm willing to pay. So if they don't like it, screw 'em! - vaxguru, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Man, this is bonkers. I'd rather get the dvd. I guess the ignorant ones will claim this price is nothing to be whinging about. Wake up and smell the coffee....
- Dahak2150, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Well, Apple seems to have messed up. Again. I'm fine with that though, I'm so sick of hearing "Whoa! Dude! Why don't you have an iPod!?" I'm just fine with my IRiver thank you.
- stark23x, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Apple just made a huge blunder. There's no other way to describe this.
- HMTKSteve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4They may get "pennies on the dollar" but how many? Are talking 3 pennies or 90 pennies? The expression has no value as it can be used to mean anything from 1 penny to 100 pennies on the dollar!
Sort of like the "We sell at a fraction of what others sell for" Well... 5/4 is a fraction! - VulnoX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"You can go to a store and rent a DVD (15 minutes, at the least) come baack home annd rip it (30 minutes) encode it (30 minutes) and burn it (10 minutes) in 52 minutes??"
If I knew what movie I wanted, it would take me 10 minutes to get it from blockbuster, since its less than a quarter mile away, encode in in 15 minutes (how bad is your hardware that it takes 30? My system is an AMD 1800 XP and I can do most any movie in 15 minutes for ripping, but I have a good DVD burner and a lot of memory), I dont know why you have ripping, I have never had to spend extra time ripping a movie, I just use DVD Shrink for most everything and all I have to spend time on is encoding, then burning. Burning takes 5-7 minutes.
This gives me, as said, full size, full sound, and all options.
Total time:
30-35 minutes, and with all the free rental coupons, my cost could have been $0, not counting the DVD-R cost, which I have over 150 that I got for X-mas. - iMactel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I dont pay $9.99 to go the movies. There is no way in hell I'll pay more than $4.99, and even then I'd expect the movie to be DVD quality if without the features. Movies and entertainment media have been way way overpriced. Apples gonna bite it on this one.
- brasilcaps, on 10/12/2007, -11/+15Does anybody really want to watch that stupid Disney made for TV movie? Let alone paying whole 10 bucks for it?
- Double-Z, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4$9.99 for a really bad version of a movie with no extras? No thanks, Apple.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Wow. No stupid apple fanboy comments yet saying how "$10 is a brilliant deal, much better than $2.99/movie".
I guess we'll have to give them a few hours to marshal their numbers and bury all the negative comments about apple on this page. :)
What is apple thinking? I know its probably not completely their fault, disney are renouned for their outrageous pricing and being out of touch with reality after all, but $10? Who the hell came up with that number? -
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