“The FT and others report that Apple and News Corp.’s 20th Century Fox are preparing to announce a digital movie rental service via Apple’s iTunes store. The service hasn’t been acknowledged by either company, so it’s a bit early to call it a hit or a dud. But here’s a look at some potential winners and losers if the service ever takes off,” Dan Frommer writes for Silicon Alley Insider.
Winners:
1) Apple
2) Akamai Technologies
3) 20th Century Fox
Losers:
1) Other download/mail/store-based movie rental services, such as Blockbuster, Netflix, Amazon, etc.
2) Cable companies, telcos, and anyone else offering video on demand.
3) Blu-Ray, HD-DVD
4) Microsoft
5) Sony (SNE), cellphone manufacturers (MOT, NOK), and other consumer electronics makers
Full article here.
Sweden? Nope. I live here. Nothing but gray skies and post-holiday depression right now. The babes are hidden under parkas and the lines to the car wash are an hour long. I pay for parking via cell phone, but that is about as advanced as we get nowadays. No official iPhones, no TV or movies on the iTunes store… stone age.
Everything looks better in the summer, so come back in June. We’ll be more advanced then.
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PS – BauMal, if you are also surrounded by the tallest average population I know where you are talking about, otherwise you must be in Iceland.
” . . . call Dominoes and order the ‘Laura Goldman Special’ . . .”
With anchovies to complete the effect.
Unless those Fox movie rentals are hi-def (and that’s highly unlikely), it doesn’t make sense to put blu-ray or hd-dvd on that list.
Unless… you’re the type of person for whom convenience tops quality.
Thankfully I’m not.
@ BauMal
Come on, we all wanna know which is the most advanced country ion the world. Tell us! Tell us! Tell us! Pleeeeeeease…
Seriously, the “suspense” is killing me.