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Apple Announces Release of HD Movie Sales and Rentals via iTunes
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I'm really hoping for Blu Ray support in Snow Leopard. Do not crush my hopes and dreams Tallest Skil, they're all I have
Its not supported, check the SL beta if you have ADC membership.
You're not supposed to crush my unfounded and probably unjustified hopes either.
Is Blu Ray support something they could add before the final release or a 10.6.x update? I don't have a ADC membership and am not familiar with programming at all.
This does raise a question for me. You made me think of it.
I wonder if this is the beginning of the end for AppleTV? I hope not. But with HD rentals (and purchases) coming to iTunes, maybe Apple is signaling that the Mini is just as well for the living room.
I think this is a step in the right direction for Apple. I like to rent movies, but would prefer to buy them instead. I'm one of those people who likes to watch "good" movies over and over. In a perfect world I would like my library to be all 1080p (now), but thats not happening $$$$$. Now I'll be able to add 720p movies to my library. Sometime in the future.....lets say 2060....i'm sure my library will consist of movies of all different qualities.
DVD sales dropping, BD sales growing
Blu-ray is being adopted faster than DVD
January 3, 2009 by Mike Ferro
It was a stellar holiday season for Blu-ray with movies like The Dark Knight breaking records. According to two research firms, Blu-ray movies and players were top on most holiday shopper's list. This is pretty much what I predicted a few months back when I compared Blu-ray as this year's Tickle me Elmo.
According to DVDFile, surveys conducted by both, Greenfield and Zogby International, Blu-ray players and movies were ranked high on holiday shopper's lists. In the survey conducted by Greenfield, it also indicated that Blu-ray players were number one on the list of HD TV owners. The survey conducted by Zogby revealed similar results ranking Blu-ray players as second on the list after HD TV.
I indicated that there will be a strong correlation between HD TV adoption and Blu-ray, and these two studies definitely show this to be true. Blu-ray sales are starting to eat away at DVD sales, similarly to how DVD sales ate away at VHS sales over 10 years ago. According to Richard Greenfield, analyst for Pali Capital, indicated that results for 2008 are expected to show a decrease in DVD sales by 6%. This is in contrast to original predictions of flat sales for the year.
Greenfield also indicated that the adoption rate for Blu-ray is much faster than DVD was. He states, "Interestingly, two years into the standard DVD cycle, the DVD installed base was only 1.2 million and players were not nearly as inexpensive as $129 [BD players were] on Black Friday." As indicated before, Blu-ray sales are twice of that of DVDs at the same point in its life.
I predict that the Blu-ray adoption rate is actually much faster than twice that of DVDs when you consider out of the two years on the market, only one year was really spent as the sole format. The first year was spent battling it out with HD-DVD splintering the market in half while leaving many on the fence. This holiday definitely showed that consumers have made the jump to Blu-ray.
http://www.zogby.com/Soundbites/ReadClips.cfm?ID=18670
January 3, 2009 by Mike Ferro
It was a stellar holiday season for Blu-ray with movies like The Dark Knight breaking records. According to two research firms, Blu-ray movies and players were top on most holiday shopper's list. This is pretty much what I predicted a few months back when I compared Blu-ray as this year's Tickle me Elmo.
According to DVDFile, surveys conducted by both, Greenfield and Zogby International, Blu-ray players and movies were ranked high on holiday shopper's lists. In the survey conducted by Greenfield, it also indicated that Blu-ray players were number one on the list of HD TV owners. The survey conducted by Zogby revealed similar results ranking Blu-ray players as second on the list after HD TV.
I indicated that there will be a strong correlation between HD TV adoption and Blu-ray, and these two studies definitely show this to be true. Blu-ray sales are starting to eat away at DVD sales, similarly to how DVD sales ate away at VHS sales over 10 years ago. According to Richard Greenfield, analyst for Pali Capital, indicated that results for 2008 are expected to show a decrease in DVD sales by 6%. This is in contrast to original predictions of flat sales for the year.
Greenfield also indicated that the adoption rate for Blu-ray is much faster than DVD was. He states, "Interestingly, two years into the standard DVD cycle, the DVD installed base was only 1.2 million and players were not nearly as inexpensive as $129 [BD players were] on Black Friday." As indicated before, Blu-ray sales are twice of that of DVDs at the same point in its life.
I predict that the Blu-ray adoption rate is actually much faster than twice that of DVDs when you consider out of the two years on the market, only one year was really spent as the sole format. The first year was spent battling it out with HD-DVD splintering the market in half while leaving many on the fence. This holiday definitely showed that consumers have made the jump to Blu-ray.
http://www.zogby.com/Soundbites/ReadClips.cfm?ID=18670
This Announcement means.
Let's hurry up and rip off all the people we can before Netflix gets streaming new HD content ready.
Let's hurry up and rip off all the people we can before Netflix gets streaming new HD content ready.
At US $20 they are way over priced for 720p with distinctly low def audio.
Plus you have to wait at least 30 days after it is released on Blu ray or DVD,
and you don't get any extras.
I've had the appletv for over a year, and I find I download less and less because if you want something new you have to wait.
Some of the HD rentals have been poor quality which is shown up when projected on to a 100" screen.
Any keepers I will buy on Blu ray, and rent anything else by getting off my arse and going to the video store
Plus you have to wait at least 30 days after it is released on Blu ray or DVD,
and you don't get any extras.
I've had the appletv for over a year, and I find I download less and less because if you want something new you have to wait.
Some of the HD rentals have been poor quality which is shown up when projected on to a 100" screen.
Any keepers I will buy on Blu ray, and rent anything else by getting off my arse and going to the video store
Finally. I just hope that Apple spends time on increasing the number of films available. It seems that for every movie they add they take one off.
So I can get a 720p version of the movie without all the bonus features for $20 or I can buy the 1080p Blu-ray version from Amazon for $26? Nice try by Apple, but these studios are still stupid with their pricing schemes. The masses aren't going to pay $15 for a new release digitally that is locked to a computer, portable player (iPod, etc.) or Apple TV-like box.
However, I still applaud Apple for at least doing this to maybe get Blu-ray movie prices to drop even more. Maybe after this venture doesn't overtake the optical disc industry and turns out to be just a small part of it, they will figure out that we want frappin' BD drives on our Macs.
However, I still applaud Apple for at least doing this to maybe get Blu-ray movie prices to drop even more. Maybe after this venture doesn't overtake the optical disc industry and turns out to be just a small part of it, they will figure out that we want frappin' BD drives on our Macs.
couldnt agree more.
I have been monitoring BR price drops via avsforum and rarely spend $20/movie on amazon.
Many think this is a great deal but it's merely wishful excitement.TV is dead
AppleTV is far from dead. It's living quite happily in my home and does exactly what I want it to.
I have no intention of buying aTV movies- that's why I purchased an AppleTV in the first place. I look at the rows of SD DVDs on my shelf that I bought and know I won't re-buy for another disk format again. HD rentals make sense for me. That said, some people have been looking for a buy option for a while, so I'm happy for them.
Depending on the size of your screen and the distance you view it from, there might be no benefit whatsoever to 1080 over 720. In my livingroom, the Dark Knight looks really, really great in HD on my 42" Plasma from 8' away. Would I notice the difference on my 92" projection screen downstairs? Absolutely. I just wish people would realize that this, "if it ain't 1080p BluRay it's ****" philosophy just isn't universally true depending on how you're watching.
I agree with you, which is why I bought my 1080p 120hz 52 Sony LCD. There is a huge difference of quality when you get above 50. I just have no urge to go back to 720 for my movie experiennce
I am curious about this as well. I looked at the store but they only say HD.
Sounds about like my complaints. I have really started to like my "rent it on Netflix, buy the keepers from Amazon on BD."
The audio is definitely not going to be ANYTHING like BD. Ooh, Dolby Digital 5.1. Nice audio from 1997. Blu-ray added all of those new audio types, so many that I can't name them all properly (DTS-HD, blah blah). Lossless audio on the movies, which makes a huge difference if you have a newer sound system. People who love just having a TV won't know the difference, but those people probably don't buy too many HD movies.
As usual, nothing is offered overseas.
Well I can't say anything about overseas, but for some reason Apple has chosen to forget about it's Canadian customers.
It can't be any harder to negotiate rights to sell in Canada than in America. I mean I get to rent movies on my TV using my cable providers box, but the selection is not the best. If Rogers can do it, why can't Apple?
It would be great to be able to hook my Macbook up to my HDTV and watch movies off iTunes, but no, Apple chose to forget us.
Well I can't say anything about overseas, but for some reason Apple has chosen to forget about it's Canadian customers.
It can't be any harder to negotiate rights to sell in Canada than in America. I mean I get to rent movies on my TV using my cable providers box, but the selection is not the best. If Rogers can do it, why can't Apple?
It would be great to be able to hook my Macbook up to my HDTV and watch movies off iTunes, but no, Apple chose to forget us.
Well it has been a stretch for a lot of people to even know that Blu ray existed, and once you buy your first 40" + plasma or LCD even standard DVD look so much better.
For the HD audio codecs you have to upgrade your AVR to one that can decode them or at least play them passed by PCM
The trouble is when you have invested $1000's on your audio visual gear you want to use the best possible sources.
You don't want to run Panther on your shiny new Mac
For the HD audio codecs you have to upgrade your AVR to one that can decode them or at least play them passed by PCM
The trouble is when you have invested $1000's on your audio visual gear you want to use the best possible sources.
You don't want to run Panther on your shiny new Mac
Come on, Apple, this is silly. HD is about uncompromised high quality. Squashing a movie into 3gb - as great as AVC/H.264 is - is a bad plan.
It's about time Apple, the ultimate computer hardware/software provider, embraced Blu-ray Disc, the ultimate home AV format, instead of providing "HD lite" downloads.
It's about time Apple, the ultimate computer hardware/software provider, embraced Blu-ray Disc, the ultimate home AV format, instead of providing "HD lite" downloads.