Apple Aims to 'Erase Distinction Between Live and On-Demand' TV Content

[ncaissie]

This sounds great but I’m not paying $2-$3 to watch a show from the cloud. I have an apple TV and don’t buy or “rent” movies or shows because the prices are too high for the quality. With Netflix I can watch all the movies and TV shows I want for one price.
I have 3 kids that watch Netflix on their PS3’s and iPod and I watch it on my iPad, PS3 and TV and we watch them at the same time. I couldn’t imagine the bill if I had to pay for each show and movie on Netflix. Apple needs a sub service.


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If that's their plan, a cloud DVR - ain't gonna happen.

Like it or not, TV shows are expensive to make, and those expenses are paid for by advertising. The money from digital sources is very small in comparison. DVR playbacks are counted if done within a certain number of days and played without commercial skipping (Neilsen families have special attachments that know when commercials are skipped). And there's both the national ads and local ads for the local station. So you'd need to store multiple copies of the "cloud dvr" shows for each local station.

Yes, they could merge the existing service with a cable box, buy shows individually or by the season. Maybe even strike a deal for "one price lets you stream all prior seasons" (though they won't be negotiating by network, they'll be negotiating with the studios who made it - networks don't own the digital rights to any show they didn't produce themselves). But "watch last night's show without commercials" - that's still going to be "$2.00 please"

Not really, I watch shows on Ondemand and a lot of them don’t let you skip past the commercials.

 

[tbrinkma]

What are you babbling on about ? The iPhone 4's display, as impressive as it was, was late to the game of high pixel count and high resolution phone displays.

Heck, 300 PPI phones were around in 2007, when the initial iPhone launched. As much as I agree with you about that other poster's comment, I can't agree with you on the iPhone having "cutting edge" resolution in 2010. It was late.

I've seen this claim before, but nobody seems to make any mention of a specific phone to back it up. (I have seen one mention, but it turned out to be a monochrome display, not color.) Can you let me know what phone (from 2007) had a 300+ppi display of a size comparable to the iPhone's? There certainly didn't seem to be anything on the market at the time with a comparable display.

(I'm more than willing to admit I'm wrong, I just need to see evidence for it first.)

 

[Lark.Landon]

Netflix is just awesome. I used to RedBox... I *THOUGHT* it was cheap... what's a couple bucks? It can turn out to be like sixty bucks a month if you rent two movies a night to stay entertained