“Apple Computer Inc., maker of the iMac personal computer, may start to sell movies online after the success of its iTunes music technology, Berliner Zeitung said, citing Pascal Cagni, the company’s Vice President, Europe,” reports Bloomberg.com very briefly and without much explanation here.
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Makes perfect sense! More and more people are getting the bandwidth they need. DVD burners will get more common (but I don’t have one yet!). Imagine if Apple could get the MPAA to join the 21st century like they may, for the RIAA. Hmmm, download “Reloaded” for $4.99?????
Bad idea. Music is nice to download and organize in nice Bite Size chunks. I just don’t see the same benefits with online movies. Apple would be better to create a DVR with AAC routing over rendezvous and recording of Cable Broadcasts.
The story is bogus. Macworld UK debunks:
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=6597
Great move!! This is the path to follow
Paul – “Reloaded” is hardly worth $4.99. Disappointment of the summer….
Waste of money – better a Tivo or something like that. If everyone starts downloading movies their providers would switch to limited plans. I, for one, would blow my bandwidth away with 1-1/2 movies at dvd quality. Better to rent a dvd and rip it for seeing a second time. Wouldn’t even burn it. There’s only a handful of movies I’d see more than once.
Waste of money indeed. Apple wouln’t be that dumb. ???
But maybe Apple is planning to release a revolutionary portable video player just like they did with the iPod. I seriously doubt it at this point, but you never know. Everyone is all caught up with the hoopla and greatness of the iTunes Music Store, but in reality it’s the iPod that has made all this download madness possible – which is why nobody has a chance of contending with Apple unless they release a device that is better than it (don’t hold your breath).
It sounds like this comment was not well thought out and was merely a passing oppinion that someone overheard and quoted. I wouldn’t take this one seriously. For one, imagine the servers they would have to have to support this! Yes, it’s feasable but how many people keep full-length DVD movies on their hard drive? Isn’t a DVD movie 7+ GB in size? That would allow the best computers to have about 10 movies (give or take depending on how much other stuff they have). I don’t think so. Hell, even if you bought a 120GB hard drive and decided to dedicate it to only movies, you’d only be able to hold 15 movies or so. Let’s see….$200 hard drive plus royalty costs of those 15 movies or $20 per movie, which includes the artwork, deleted scenes, etc.
Okay, now let’s say Apple does come out with a device for movies. Let’s say they put a whopping 300GB hard drive in it (yea right). Okay, so now you have about 30 movies. An LCD screen and a hard drive that size, plus the electronics would make this device easily up to $1200 to $1500. I don’t see it any less than $1000.
I’d much rather just buy the damn DVD.
Nobody seems to be noting the upcoming Pixlet technology. If apple were to sell movies online they’d most likely release it using pixlet. That would give you the ability to have 30 or more movies on a 30 gig iPod. In 2 years time lets say that apple would have the ability to secure an 80 Gb drive for the ipod at a comparable price to today’s 30 Gb. then they could include a video out that could plug into a portable monitor similar to what you’ve seen on the Playstations. You could then visit the Apple Media Store and download American Pie 4 and 50 other movies directly to your iPod and still have enough room for 5,000 songs.
I didn’t know of this Pixlet technology. Nor did I take into consideration the possibility of new technologies for video compression. Let’s just hope MicroSuck doesn’t get their dirty hands on an idea like this first!
Wow! That would be quite awesome. The only thing is, it would be most desirable to be able to plug this imaginary device into a hi-fi TV and not something special or only a monitor.