“Downloads of Walt Disney films on the iTunes platform have risen sharply to more than 1.3m after only three months on sale, putting pressure on other Hollywood studios to join Apple’s digital service,” Matthew Garrahan reports for The Financial Times.
Garrahan reports, “The launch of Pirates of the Caribbean and Cars on iTunes helped push Disney download sales through the 1m barrier, with the total number of Disney downloads sold on iTunes doubling over the Christmas period.”
“Disney also put its TV programming on iTunes a year ago and has sold more than 20m downloads,” Garrahan reports.
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“As much as I’d like to see more movie content on iTunes, I think the studios may prefer to steer clear of Apple after seeing how the music industry lost control of their content to Steve Jobs.”
Yeah, if I’m a movie studio, I don’t want anything to do with Apple. I love the company and all but business wise I doubt those guys even want to sit in the same room with Steve Jobs. He’s their worst nightmare.
The movie studios might have to get out of your own way. They are their own worst nightmare.
Oops that should read:
The movie studios might have to get out of their own way. They are their own worst nightmare.
@ken1w
You are so right.
To all of you complaining about quality please remember, revolutions in music and videos have not always gone to the higher quality, but to the most convenient.
Records, high quality but pitiful portability.
Tapes, terrable quality but great portability.
CDs, better quality (still less then a new record), same portability, longer life.
MP3’s In the beginning they were low quality, but people stuck with it because of the portability. Because MP3’s are not physical media improvements with the design could be made and spread around so people could take advantage with only a minor upgrade.
For myself, I enjoy listening to music, I’m using baseline import quality on iTunes (128bps?) and cheep (as in WalMart cheep) headphones and I am happy. I’m not concerned with the quality of the sound, but having tunes I like easily available to listen to.
For movies I will hold off buying any from iTunes, because I enjoy looking at the extras as much as the movies themselves (LOTR, 3hour movies with 5 hours of extras!) however, once they start offering those allong with the movie download I’ll probably start buying them.