When Apple Computer Inc. begins selling Hollywood films online this week via its iTunes Store, Disney Studios’ films (classics for $9.99, new releases for $14.99 – in comparison to Amazon’s Unbox, which offers films at costs ranging from $8 to $20) will be the only films offered initially according to a report in Daily Variety, UPI reports.
“Daily Variety said Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs’ unwillingness to price the downloadable videos as high as movie studios would have liked ultimately resulted in Disney being the only studio signed on to offer its wares on iTunes beginning Tuesday,” UPI reports.
Daily Variety reported that if the Apple-Disney feature film partnership proves profitable other major studios likely will follow in Disney’s footsteps.
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Fsck you Hollywood! Unbox is shit!
Lion’s Gate is on board too…
Let’s help the cause and buy “Little Mermaid,” “Bambi,” “Cinderella,” and “Beauty and the Beast” a couples times each.
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WTF? Unbox prices are $14.99 and $9.99 and all the studios are on board. What’s the deal?
Good.
Apple- sticks to it’s guns.
And why not? When you’re the quality leader, and the innovation specialists, you can do WHATEVER THE FSCK YOU WANT TO.
In light of this (initial) scarcity of content partners, Apple’s solution will have to be MUCH better. And it probably will be…
Better, maybe. At first, though, it just needs to be more popular. This could be a case where they leverage the iPod. But, since Apple is used to doing things better, they will have an ace up their sleeve. What they have gotten good at is deciding WHEN to play their cards.
10 minutes ’til Tuesday.
I’m guessing that the movie store will focus around the ipod. They want to sell more ipods and make more money. You downlod the movies to the ipod. You can watch them on our ipod or dock it and watch them on the tv. Maybe the ipod will have frontrow built and come with a remote. The ipod will be the living room device.
Disney backed the historically revisionist ‘Path to 9/11’ on ABC television. Don’t buy their junk, from Apple’s iTunes Music Store or anywhere else.
Goliath: Unbox is DRM’d up the wazoo and the studios like that. They still fantasize that a system like that can work.
This is following the pattern of the TV store. Didn’t it just start with one network? When show sales exploded, everyone else jumped on board.
The other studios will see that Job’s plan is the only one that works and will eventualy come on board.
ABC and NBC are also not with Amazon so I expect a better deal with them also.
@ Tergenev
This is an APPLE site.
Take it somewhere else.
>Disney backed the historically revisionist ‘Path to 9/11’ on ABC television. Don’t buy their junk, from Apple’s iTunes Music Store or anywhere else.>
You seem to forget Tergenev, that ABC, CBS, NBC, are all stooges of the left. Even they had to show SOME of the crap that went on during the Clintonistas reign. The left wing loonies tried to censor (and did) a lot of the dem debacles. What about the 1st amendment now?
Bush is best during this third world war.. That’ll stir ’em up.
@ Ron.
ditto. MAC DAILY NEWS.
The new thought police=political correctness= SOME of the new Left.
And Tergenev, if you’re trying to be ironic, check your speellink. Djor bvowels are not so keerekt.
Night.
Tergenev
Miramax distributed Fahrenheit 911. Do you boycott them, too?
i am buying a couple copies of Pirates of the Caribbean
The key to this maybe how extensive the Disney catalog is. Disney has been a movie producer for a long time. If they are able to offer everything, even some of the old Wonderful World of Disney stuff, then this might very popular due to the fact that you cannot get that material in other places.
Tergenev,
I agree with you that the documentary is a travesty, but you must not forget that His Steveness is now allied with Disney, and that the documentary therefore is now within the Holy Reality Distortion Field. Accordingly we must not criticize but instead must all have faith that His Steveness has, in his wisdom, approved and sanctified the documentary for deep and mysterious reasons which are beyond our lowly comprehension. Do not forget that He moves in mysterious ways and that we cannot all hope to grasp the workings of His holy grace.
Of course, we have the right to lie, because we hated Clinton, so anything we want to say about him is fair game. And we can never let anyone show a flawed Ronald Reagan docu-drama. That would be disrespectful.
And never, never refer to “The Pet Goat” incident. It did not happen. Never did.
Wow, libs DO beleive in a Higher Being and not just being higher.
You all digress.
Too bad. We got away from this sh*t, for a little while, anyway.
So, what other Disney items might show up.
Are there, for instance, any short subjects/
And, what with various mergers and acquisitions, perhaps some other productions may show up as initial offerings.
Anyone have any inside info?
If they’re opening up the vault for some of the classics, that’s awesome — I would love to download “Fantasia” to watch on my iBook when I’m hanging out in the airport for a couple of hours.
And the big difference between “Unbox” and iTunes Movies (call it the iTunes Media Store) is that we get to KEEP the iTMS wares — we don’t have to worry about them vanishing in 24 hours (if you’re able to download them at all).
And for Mac users (this IS MacDailyNews, after all), we can’t even use “Unbox” or 99% of the other services…and writers dare to complain about Apple’s “closed systems”…
I think wick hit the nail on the head.
Apple has been fervishly working on the touchscreen iPod but is not ready. They can’t let the holiday buying season go by without a new iPod from Apple…the answer: The iPod that Apple will release tomorrow. Yes it will have Front Row and a remote.Yes it will be the living room device most definitely. The capacity will be increased to 80GB. Now how long do you think Apple has been holding on to this little addition to the iPod? Now that’s planning. And using Cars and Pirates against the studios is genious. The studios won’t sit back for long and watch Disney rake in the dough…they will jump on the band wagon quickly. Jobs and Apple always have extra cards up their sleeves and they always know exactly when to play them.