biz.yahoo.com — "Selling 1 million videos in less than 20 days strongly suggests there is a market for legal video downloads," Steve Jobs, chief executive officer, said in a statement. "Our next challenge is to broaden our content offerings, so that customers can enjoy watching more videos on their computers and new iPods."
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zero2aheroOct 31, 2005
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timmyk_Oct 31, 2005
"Buying 320x240 TV shows is insane. Maybe if they were HDTV I would buy them to save me the slow torrent download every week."Exactly. I would gladly pay $2 a week to download a high quality 16:9 version of Lost and watch it with no commercials. I won't pay that to download a low res 4:3 version. If they increase the quality of the shows it would really pic up. Most of these downloads were new people trying it out to see how good it was. Lets wait and see how consistent it stays.
lnahid2000Oct 31, 2005
They should be able to get ESPN since it is part of the Disney/ABC conglomerate. I wouldn't buy them though since they are at a lower resolution than sdtv.
bacon_skodaOct 31, 2005
my idea for a cheap quick clip are "how to" clips.for 99cents...how to install a faucet..how to make whatever pie...etc.small, cheap, quick, less than 5 minutes clips that is more useful in a portable device than a computer..unless you have a computer in your kitchen or backyard or camp ground...they don't need to be high quality, just need them when i need them.
deix15x8Oct 31, 2005
This is truly amazing, i guess allot of people out there are tech illiterate because digg users know how to get all those music videos and more at a higher quality off of Yahoo! Launchcast and the TV Shows are just to low of a quality since they have to be made to meat the low standards of the iPod.
linuxrocksOct 31, 2005
Cool we can buy completely free videos that are free at places like MTV!
linuxrocksOct 31, 2005
Even at MTV.com you can watch videos. The shows are free on television. I just don't understand consumers... Although 1 million really doesn't seem like that much to me.
cliffosakajapanOct 31, 2005Submitter
A Million "PAID" downloaded Videos is still impressive for not having a broad choice of titles and for not being Super High Quality files. Apple is doing it right by dipping their toes into these uncharted waters instead of diving in head first where it could easily have been a disaster...
mikataurNov 1, 2005
> "I wouldnt mind using itunes but it wants to convert all my music to mp4s or whatever it is"Are you sure you've used it? iTunes doesn't convert anything unless you ask to it. For ripping CDs to MP3 instead of AAC (which anyway actually provides better quality at the same given bit rate), do this:Preferences > Advanced > Importing > Import using: (popup) MP3 Encoder.Or you can just use LAME like the clever kids do and use iTunes to manage the collection. It's surprising people *still* needed to be told of the value of iTunes. It's miles ahead of anything else for managing large collections of music.
mikataurNov 1, 2005
> Even at MTV.com you can watch videos.Yes, but using Windows Media plugin (streaming) which has very restrictive DRM, doesn't let you save to disc or put on a portable player, and is not watchable on anything other than a Windows machine. Apart from that...