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- WiseWeasel, on 12/04/2007, -4/+98I'm not buying anything from their video store until they get rid of DRM, or let me burn to standard DVD format for playback on DVD players. Crippled purchased downloads FTL!
- inactive, on 12/04/2007, -3/+42You know, video is not as important as music to iPods, so I think Apple should allow all the studios to price the movies as they see fit, because what will eventually happen is that there will almost certainly be a price war. The studios that price their movies reasonably are going to win out and that will naturally motivate the other studios to lower their prices. I think this is why Apple has caved in this one time. It will be interesting to see what happens later.
- aldenhg, on 12/04/2007, -1/+34It's like they just don't want people to buy their content online. A wholesale price of $15??? I know that Apple is already used to pretty small margins on iTMS, but that's leaving very little room to be competitive with DVDs. With the lower distribution costs of doing it online you'd think they'd fall over themselves trying to get into a popular online media marketplace.
- BigW, on 12/04/2007, -1/+31You'd think the studios would be falling all over themselves to sell movies on-line. There's only one problem with that, all the movie studios are run by retarded morons.
- DavidGX, on 12/04/2007, -1/+30Illegal downloading pays off yet again.
- lordtyros, on 12/04/2007, -2/+28LOL. You've never bought any videos from iTunes except for the videos you bought from iTunes. That'll show 'em!
- thenumber8, on 12/04/2007, -1/+22With the restrictions on Apple's video content it already wasn't worth the money, why would I buy movies from them now? DRM-free or I won't buy there
- dcharti, on 12/04/2007, -2/+21I see the legitimate video download industry taking the same route as music over the next 1-3 years. The industry will finally warm up to it, enough users will flock to achieve a critical level of popularity, and the movie studios will eventually join their music counterparts in getting comfortable in doing away with DRM. These things simply take time.
- BigW, on 12/04/2007, -3/+20It doesn't matter what the price is. Until I can burn a DVD of a movie purchased on iTunes just like I can burn CDs of music, I will never, ever, buy a movie on itunes anyway.
- lpse2000, on 12/04/2007, -4/+21Well I really liked the idea of buying and downloading movies online, but I've only bought 2 or 3 movies and a handful of TV shows. I didn't think the price was reasonable compared to watching cable which I already pay for... and now that prices are going up... This may not be something Apple has much longer...
- cnicodemus, on 12/04/2007, -2/+15Give me HD quality and Ill pay more. If not Handbrake here I come!
- postal21, on 12/04/2007, -2/+14Who watches movies on a 2 inch screen anyways? ick, and for 15 dollars a pop? are they insane? no dvd-recopy of the format... for gods sake, atleast let the person burn their own copy to dvd if they paid 15 dollars for the piece of ***** divx/whatever file.
- potterboy, on 12/04/2007, -0/+10Office isn't on iTunes anymore.
- nonymous666, on 12/04/2007, -0/+10They need a rental model; not just a purchase model.
- dn11, on 12/04/2007, -0/+8Hollywood fails again. Seriously Hollywood, you should just throw in the towel now, at this rate you are going to be irrelevant within the next decade anyway.
- themoosejuice, on 12/04/2007, -7/+15TV Show: The Office (1 episode)
iTunes Store: $9.99
the Piratebay: $0.00 - calgone, on 12/04/2007, -0/+8I absolutely HATE going to the movie theatre. 9+ dollars to sit in uncomfortable seats, while some punk kid texts people on his cellphone and a group of people next to me talk. Not to mention the love of my feet sticking to the floor. And I pay for all of this?! I would gladly pay $20+ to download a movie at home that is released at the same time as it is in the movie theatre. Think of it as a pay-per-view event or even let me keep it until it is released on DVD. My 60" plasma + 7.1 surround sound and my comfortable couch trumps anything the movie theaters can offer.
- llsethj, on 12/04/2007, -2/+9rentals coming out at Macworld
http://9to5mac.com/appletv-where-are-therentals-34 ... - MinorLemming, on 12/04/2007, -0/+7yeah, I know... I can only get about 4 movies, 6 TV shows, and 1221 songs at 192kbps. If only they made a device big enough for me to carry enough media to last me until I get home at night.
- inactive, on 12/04/2007, -0/+6It will be a long while before those become affordable here in the US and other parts of the world. Especially since you are talking about 100Gbps. 100Mbps pipes now exist but they usually cost well over $150+ per month.
- signal15, on 12/04/2007, -0/+6Well, I don't think it needs to be free. But, it does need to come with no DRM. I don't want to rely upon some technology that may not be supported in a few years in order to watch movies that I PAID for. Distribute them in MPEG4 format, tagged with the original purchasers name to discourage sharing. And $15 is a hefty price to pay for something that doesn't come on physical media, and it looks like this is Apple's wholesale price too.
I think Rent & Rip is a much cheaper solution for getting the video to a laptop, iphone, or ipod. Or, you could just grab the torrent. All the studios are doing is driving people to use "illegal" means of getting what they want. Why don't they conduct some focus groups and actually listen to their customers? - mrsteveman1, on 12/04/2007, -0/+6That should have happened when AppleTV was RELEASED, not a year later.
- FredFredrickson, on 12/04/2007, -0/+5Their sense? You act like they are providing a free service. They're in it to make a quick buck just like everyone else is.
- vault, on 12/04/2007, -0/+5>> It will be interesting to see what happens later.
And how it affects the rumored iTunes movie rental service. - davidlow, on 12/04/2007, -0/+4I think that's actually part of Apples calculation. They make money off the hardware sales, not the miniscule percentage that Hollywood throws their way. I think Steve Jobs is making this "concession" to prove his point that higher prices = more illegal downloads onto video iPods and Apple TVs.
- Agent124, on 12/04/2007, -0/+4Handbrake is for DVDs, not HD.
- inactive, on 12/04/2007, -0/+4I would buy an apple tv if they could meet these requirements. 1. Bigger hard drive please, 500gb would be nice. 2. Give me a decent service in which to buy the movies from, decent prices. If they cost more than they do at the store, then why buy them online? Should be cheaper online than at the store.
- rjsnau, on 12/04/2007, -0/+4Ummm why do this when you can just buy the DVD, rip it and encode it to play on your ipod. I don't lose any sleep at night doing this, the studios get their $15, and I get to enjoy my movie. Plus I can encode it at any bitrate I want. An average movie I encode takes 300 megs and looks fine on the ipods small screen. I think it is stupid to expect me to buy the same movie twice to watch it on two different formats.
- mrsteveman1, on 12/04/2007, -0/+4Yea, thats what AppleTV is supposed to be for. And of course a lot of people actually own HDTVs they can connect their computer to........
- rosullivan, on 12/04/2007, -0/+4Meh. For the price, I'd prefer a store-bought DVD... or better yet, HD-DVD.
- Refrag, on 12/04/2007, -0/+3Apple doesn't set the wholesale prices. They set the retail prices of information available for sale on the iTunes Store.
- superkendall, on 12/04/2007, -0/+3iTunes movie store, you are dead to me.
- runtimmyc, on 12/04/2007, -0/+3Oh GOD, why can't I click!
- benitojuarez, on 12/04/2007, -0/+3I think video will be more important for ipod touch users since they actually have a decent screen. Personally I use video all the time on my zune.
- JerodSlay, on 12/04/2007, -0/+3Movies were a bad deal on iTunes to begin with. I never bought one because of it. This will just seal the deal.
- inactive, on 12/04/2007, -0/+3And soon we will all have virtual reality machines like in Lawnmower Man, right?
- thespace2, on 12/04/2007, -1/+4Boy they sure are forcing people to turn to torrents. I've seen two people who are letter of the law angels turn to the dark side just this month. Are these people total morons?
- sekhui, on 12/04/2007, -0/+3that's not the point. the point is freedom to do with your property what you will.
- inactive, on 12/04/2007, -0/+3It will only be worth it if they're just wrapping full DVD contents in some sort of compressed container. Otherwise, for the price, there's no reason to go with the iTunes videos over DVDs.
- mrsteveman1, on 12/04/2007, -1/+4You're a ***** moron. People want to rent movies because of what he said. He's right, you're not.
No one wants to BUY all this crap, TV shows get watched once, as do most movies. There is no reason to own them. - WiseWeasel, on 12/04/2007, -0/+2That's fine, but I demand portability in addition to convenience. That's why I use MacTheRipper and Handbrake to rip my DVDs to H.264 format for my AppleTV. Best of both worlds. There's no way I'm locking myself into a proprietary format with zero export options.
- NewPunk, on 12/04/2007, -0/+2Yea... movies and music are a ripoff online. I prefer DVDs and CDs over online movies and music anyday. For some reason I figured that online movies would be $10... way less than DVDs are now... huh. I guess the movie industry has gone totally insane and doesn't understand the market that well... make it more available and cheaper and you'll have more customers. If people pay $10 for a movie online, maybe they'll get it and then decide they want the DVD which comes with added features AND a physical copy. Just thinking logically, right? Anyone agree?
- inactive, on 12/04/2007, -0/+2So why don't you just by the DVD in the first place??
- slevit1, on 12/04/2007, -0/+2I guess the movie industry hasn't learned anything from the music industry, which is spiraling into oblivion due to its restrictive DRM and inability to change with the times. They both seem to forget that we will always have another option, just downloading it for free!! Personally, I just rip every movie from NetFlix, and it looks like that's what I'm going to have to continue to do.
- Scheissen, on 12/04/2007, -0/+2I'd only use NetFlix because that's where DRM is justified, renting movies online.
- rubbers0ul, on 12/04/2007, -0/+2Well, The Pirate Bay is still free....
- mrsteveman1, on 12/04/2007, -1/+3Because normal DVD burners cant burn CSS keys to a disc, you can thank the MPAA for that little gem of retardation. Thats the sole reason none of this ***** works, and the sole reason they are now having to make special hardware to allow downloaded movies to be burned to a disc.
- WiseWeasel, on 12/05/2007, -0/+2Because I would prefer to buy standard format H.264 files.
- missingnoh4x, on 12/04/2007, -0/+2And the MPAA wonders why people pirate their work instead of paying through the nose for DRMed versions.
- ThatsUnpossible, on 12/04/2007, -0/+2A 2-inch screen held close to your face has a larger perspective than a 50" screen that is far away.
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