iTunes and movies
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okay, it’s not often that i get off-topic, but i have to make an exception. apple announced yesterday that they are now selling movies through their iTunes store. i’ve checked it out and i think this is doomed. here’s why:
- movies are not DVD quality. they are 640 x 480, to boot.
- movies cannot be burned to a DVD.
- each movie is going to be a Gigabyte or more, so many users won’t have the room to build a library.
- downloads take more than an hour on DSL and are impossible on dial-up.
- the price is barely better than many of these same movies on DVD at Best Buy or Walmart.
personally, i would have considered the idea if apple had gotten into the movie rental business (ala netflix), but for the price of a movie, i can have 2 movies mailed to my house and return them and do that again many times in a month — same price. sure, i don’t keep the movies, but most movies i watch are only worth watching once.
i predict a failure here.
but, i think the new iTunes is really nice. And, the iPod shuffle is quite neat. that’s what we’re giving my son for his birthday in a few weeks.
September 13th, 2006 at 2:22 pm
It depends on how you define failure. They will definitely make a profit, so I wouldn’t call it a failure.
September 13th, 2006 at 2:30 pm
Oh, I agree with that. I guess I should have clarified that I think it will be a failure compared to the success of the music side of the store. Apple has a monopoly of sorts there; i don’t think they’ll do the same with movies.
November 28th, 2006 at 1:28 pm
I just got my 2000t and all of my songs are skipping in iTunes, and I cant figure out why. If someone could help me out and tell me how to fix this I would really appreciate it because its driving me crazy. Thanks for the replys.