“Apple has sold more than 30 million iPods around the world, it announced today. The player, introduced in November 2001, has also led to sales of more than 600 million songs from Apple’s iTunes Music Store,” Mark Prigg reports for The Evening Standard. “After just a month, a million video files had been sold via its website and thousands of enthusiasts had set up their own video ‘podcasts’ that could be downloaded to the device. ‘Selling one million videos in less than 20 days strongly suggests there is a market for legal video downloads,’ said Apple chief Steve Jobs.”
“Apple already sells episodes of TV shows Lost and Desperate Housewives in America and is in negotiations with several major broadcasters in Britain. Experts say that if Apple can provide enough TV shows for the device, the iPod could do for the TV industry what it did for music,” Prigg reports.
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It’d be GREAT if we could download The Two Ronnies, Little Britain, Have I Got News For You etc. onto our iPods.
First Post?
I love the UK
The complete Cory Street, all 26 years!
Not.
Suddenly Top Gear comes to my mind.
How about the new series of Dr Who? It’s not like they’re repeating that 24/7 on every BBC channel & UK Gold.
Oh, actually they are.
BBC Documentaries are top-notch. Great edutainment on Animals, Science, Technology, History, Pop-culture…. I’d carry that around in my pocket!
Seeing as I live in the US, I would definatly be willing to purchase the new Dr. Who shows since they are not aired on this side of the pond.
I would have thought it would have made sense to negotiate with some of the smaller satellite channels in the UK which create their own content – those who have nothing to lose since they have small audiences as it is. I think the popularity of podcasts since their launch on iTunes has shown that at the start quantity is just as important as quality.
Stations such as UK food which does daily cookery shows could make a fortune selling stuff on iTunes I would have thought. Their content would benefit from being portable because people could watch in their kitchens and make the recipes as they watch. People who cook are always buying new recipe books etc so it would be a great resource.
Just a thought.
Several?
I didn’t know there were more than a few british TV networks. Unless you count the separate BBC channels as ‘networks’? (Quoting Mike Meyers’ Austin Powers: “BBC1, BBC2, BBC3…”
And then there’s SkyNet, er Sky1 and ?
Still, I’d love to get The Fast Show and Porridge! (Both BBC)
… and even better if iTunes users with UK based accounts don’t have to pay for the BBC content (seeing as we’ve already paid for it).
Top Gear on iPod would be superb.
Big Al: Hehehe… wonder what size iPod you’d need for the Corrie back catalogue?
“the iPod could do for the TV industry what it did for music”
What exactly did the iPod do for music?
It did great things for Apple and for the grabbing music industry, but did it in any shape or form contribute to music?
Explain, por favor.
Don’t be a dipshit, What then? — you know exactly what he means.
You know, kind of like it perfected a whole new paradigm of buying and utilizing music.
Little things like that.
And that’s just in the short term. It WILL eventually end up re-shaping the entire music industry as well — by wresting power from the labels and giving it to the artists.
As for music itself, I’ve seen it impact music in a myriad of ways, from DJ’s using iPods to songs released especially for iPods and on and on and on . . .
Dipshit.
I just wish Curb Your Enthusiasm was on iTunes.
Uncle Fester there are loads of carriers and tv companies over here. BBC, Granada, London Weekend, Carlton, Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky, NTL/Telewest for Cable and a whole range of other smaller cable and satalite channels and most of the material all these companies show are made by any number of independent production companies. Then there are the international co-operative efforts… do I need to go on? The only likely problem is to unwrangle who exactly has the rights to what and in what territories.
I’m with Top Gear..its THE best, funniest, car programme anyone ever made!
Getting Coronation Street into the iTunes Video Store would be significant. I would order the entire Hilda Ogden back catalogue (“Stanley! Shift it! Them windas won’t wash themselves!”). I wouldn’t mind seeing Alan Bradley again either, and Len Fairclough, and Albert Tatlock, and Mrs. Sharples…
It would also be fab *and* gear if LWT and Thames opened their vaults for shows like “Doctor In The House” and “Bless This House” and “On The Buses.” Yes, I would actually pay for them.
MW = I am *under* the influence of British TV.
Explain, por favor
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found a legal way to compete and beat the file sharing networks??
oh, you don’t think that’s relevant? okay..
Widescreen i-pod. MOVIES NOT T.V. ! O.k., movies and T.V. stuff! Come on Apple.
I would LOVE to be able to put Coupling on my iPod!!
i would love to get some AbFab on me iPod, maybe the Young Ones as well. Also, MTV should make their Liquid Television iPod ready. They had some cool shorts, not only Aeon Flux.
Well as someone mentioned before, Top Gear comes directly to mind.
I would GLADLY pay a couple quid to get top gear on my iPod to watch during lunch the next day at work.
If Apple could only get the BBC on board others would follow. THere might be some issues with the BBC charging for shows seeing how we pay our TV licence fee to get these shows for free anyway.
More importantly, I would like a subscriptions service giving me unlimited video viewing for a monthly fee as I am rarely going to watch these shows more than once or twice…