appleinsider.com — Walt Disney chief executive Robert Iger said on Tuesday the company sold 125,000 movie downloads worth $1 million in revenue through Apple Computer's iTunes Store during the offering's first week. The entertainment conglomerate, which placed 75 movies for download on iTunes last week, expects the movie downloads to generate $50m in year one.
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daldredgeSep 19, 2006
The point is that 125,000 isn't that many and isn't worth getting excited over.
hanapbuhaySep 19, 2006
AAPL stock will skyrrrrrrocket. Arrrrrr!
ticocatsSep 19, 2006
Apple might increase their sales considerably if they permitted video purchases from users in other countries. And if more studios made their content available on-line, I would have a bit more sympathy for their piracy complaints.I live on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, and NetFlix is one of the very few things I miss from my former life in the US. Here, the only video rentals available locally are a few poor quality bootlegs, it's a hazardous 4 hour drive to the nearest store with a semi-decent DVD collection, movies shown on the Latin America version of even "premium" TV stations are rarely worth watching, NetFlix isn't feasible, and the power supply is erratic at best. Therefore, I am fairly ecstatic about the availability of getting movies through the iTunes store (though not as ecstatic as when I discovered that I could download The Daily Show and even watch episodes on my MacBook during power outages, and nowhere near as ecstatic as I would be if I could burn the videos to DVD.) Fortunately, I've got a US membership and a relatively fast internet connection.If I still lived in the US, buying movies from the iTunes store wouldn't make any sense to me, although I'd probably still download commercial-free episodes of The Daily Show. But there is a real market for downloaded movies in parts of the world, if Apple and the studios would just make it a bit easier.
richardlawlerSep 20, 2006
DRM is a sin. Our children will not forgive us.
Closed AccountSep 20, 2006
Meanwhile....BILLIONS of real DVD`s with all the extras and no DRM have been sold and/or rented.
hyperbolepoliceSep 20, 2006
There could easily be 1,000 people that bought each of the 75 titles because they're collectors and flush with cash and_or want to get ahead of what they think is the NEXT BIG THING.UMD blasted out of the gates with 2 titles selling 100k copies each faster than DVD did. It then fell flat.We'll see what happens as time goes on. The # of titles has to increase, and rapidly.