no kidding. family guy is crushing it.~Shard~ said:Nah, the Simpsons is old and tired now. If they had the older episodes when the show was actually good (seasons 1-7) available I might grab a couple, but really, they need to just need to put that show out of its misery, it's dying a slow death and is a shadow of its former self.
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Unfortunately, I won't be interested until they are available in HD formats. Well, maybe DVD quality would be enough....
This could be an awesome way to get HD content though. The only other outlet currently is the few cable/satellite channels with crappy compression and limited programming.
This could be an awesome way to get HD content though. The only other outlet currently is the few cable/satellite channels with crappy compression and limited programming.
If they sold movies in 480p or higher, without DRM for around $10 USD, I would be interested. But no DRM probably won't happen in the iTMS.
I wish I can keep my movies separate from the music. My library is too large now. On a side note, I also want to separate my MPEG-4 camera videos separate from iPhoto. A separate iLife app should be used to manage Quicktime content and allow offline storage.
Now this awesome and unexpected! $1.99 is cheap for a full-length movie. Let's hope it stays this way for the majority for movies.
$1.99 is cheap for a full-length movie. Let's hope it stays this way for the majority for movies.Apple DVR Counter-Plan
This is my theory on why Apple Decided not to include DVR Tuners in the new Mac's or DVR support on Front Row.
I think they are working with the networks (ABC will be first of course) For them to stream all there programming over the internet, viewable with itunes. Maybe Front Row will offer a DVR ability (Recording segments off these streams) but they will not include the ability to skip through commercials without having to pay a per network monthly fee. They will need to offer some sort of other option then paying $2/episode to watch your favorite TV shows, because no one will do that on a weekly basis. I think the majority of their current TV show sales is from people purchasing episodes that they have missed. Bottom line for any Movie/TV service to start any widespread use like iTunes. They are going to need to offer something better then what they have now. They are going to also need to start putting out higher resolution TV shows. The movies you buy on line are going to need to come in HD 720p or 1080i or they might as well throw the whole movie plan out the window. iTunes TV shows/music videos look awful full screen, and basically bad on anything but the iPod. Which even a new iPod Video is not going to help this problem, because most people do not want to watch their movies on a 5" screen. They can offer 2 sizes for download with the one purchase.
They are also in desperate need of a better iTunes interface. Because the even quicktime video interface sucks and itunes Video Interface is worse. They need to incorporate a 10 sec skip and 10 sec go back, something closer to V.L.C. control interface ( http://www.videolan.org ) but better looking, easier to use and setup. Not to mention the tiny little iTunes videos play poorly on PC's, and slower mac's. The Compression codec is so processor intensive that My -Pentium 4 3.4 with HT and 2GB DDR2 533MHZ with a ATI Radeon x850 with 256 GDDR3 ram- cannot play the iTunes videos unless my computer is basically doing nothing else. Otherwise I can play over 20 XVID HDTV videos simultaniously. My Dual 2.7 Powermac can only play 2 of these itunes videos smoothly at the same time while again over 20 HD XVID videos play smoothly.
Lastly how about being able to watch the itunes video streaming as they download? They practacly invented progressive download and I was surprised when I downloaded my first TV Show and I had to wait to watch it. Come on this is just common sense. Their download server aren't even very fast. 10-20 minutes a TV show!!! Their server upload speed is the bottle neck to B/C I can download at 500 KB/Sec on a good day, and apple gives me like 50KB/sec. Come on Limewire is faster.
If they do not have a plan similar to this, the whole leaving the DVR out of the mac was a an terrible mistake, if they are counting on people paying for all of their TV seperatly even if you can get a whole season for $20/year. People watch to much TV to pay for every Show. They better have a better TV plan in the works.
While I am and always will be a mac freak. They have been making a quite a few bad chess moves over at 1 infinate loop lately.
This is my theory on why Apple Decided not to include DVR Tuners in the new Mac's or DVR support on Front Row.
I think they are working with the networks (ABC will be first of course) For them to stream all there programming over the internet, viewable with itunes. Maybe Front Row will offer a DVR ability (Recording segments off these streams) but they will not include the ability to skip through commercials without having to pay a per network monthly fee. They will need to offer some sort of other option then paying $2/episode to watch your favorite TV shows, because no one will do that on a weekly basis. I think the majority of their current TV show sales is from people purchasing episodes that they have missed. Bottom line for any Movie/TV service to start any widespread use like iTunes. They are going to need to offer something better then what they have now. They are going to also need to start putting out higher resolution TV shows. The movies you buy on line are going to need to come in HD 720p or 1080i or they might as well throw the whole movie plan out the window. iTunes TV shows/music videos look awful full screen, and basically bad on anything but the iPod. Which even a new iPod Video is not going to help this problem, because most people do not want to watch their movies on a 5" screen. They can offer 2 sizes for download with the one purchase.
They are also in desperate need of a better iTunes interface. Because the even quicktime video interface sucks and itunes Video Interface is worse. They need to incorporate a 10 sec skip and 10 sec go back, something closer to V.L.C. control interface ( http://www.videolan.org ) but better looking, easier to use and setup. Not to mention the tiny little iTunes videos play poorly on PC's, and slower mac's. The Compression codec is so processor intensive that My -Pentium 4 3.4 with HT and 2GB DDR2 533MHZ with a ATI Radeon x850 with 256 GDDR3 ram- cannot play the iTunes videos unless my computer is basically doing nothing else. Otherwise I can play over 20 XVID HDTV videos simultaniously. My Dual 2.7 Powermac can only play 2 of these itunes videos smoothly at the same time while again over 20 HD XVID videos play smoothly.
Lastly how about being able to watch the itunes video streaming as they download? They practacly invented progressive download and I was surprised when I downloaded my first TV Show and I had to wait to watch it. Come on this is just common sense. Their download server aren't even very fast. 10-20 minutes a TV show!!! Their server upload speed is the bottle neck to B/C I can download at 500 KB/Sec on a good day, and apple gives me like 50KB/sec. Come on Limewire is faster.
If they do not have a plan similar to this, the whole leaving the DVR out of the mac was a an terrible mistake, if they are counting on people paying for all of their TV seperatly even if you can get a whole season for $20/year. People watch to much TV to pay for every Show. They better have a better TV plan in the works.
While I am and always will be a mac freak. They have been making a quite a few bad chess moves over at 1 infinate loop lately.
You can't seriously think that the mini is a REAL media centre. No tuner, no 5.1 (well maybe with optical, no easy 5.1), no DVR and a crappy little HD. No a REAL media centre is neededthegreatunknown said:
Oh goodie. I can buy a movie to play on my computer, and if I stand 15 feet away and watch it, the quality almost looks good.
neocell said:
well I'm sure this had been argued amongst other threads so I won't really babble about it. I didn't realize you had such strong opinions, I was just sayin'. however I wouldn't ever expect DVR since that defeats the purpose of buying shows on iTunes. 5.1 is there as you mention. tv tuners are worthless since tv just blows. the small HD is fixed by the fact it streams data between other computers.
Hmm... I like the 'easing in' of this: The Disney Channel Movies are pure made-for-TV movies, with the actors from the Disney Channel TV shows. You really could think of them as two hour TV shows.
I can see this as a great first set of movies to offer: They already offer TV shows from the same people, and the movies only play sporadically so if you acctually liked one this would be a good way to buy it.
I can see this as a great first set of movies to offer: They already offer TV shows from the same people, and the movies only play sporadically so if you acctually liked one this would be a good way to buy it.
I have a Mini hooked up to a 40" LCD TV and everybody is amazed at how i can playback slideshows,music (from everyone in the house) and films (most of them avi,xvid). If i want to look at TV i just go to TV, why would i need that on the mac mini . And yes i can record because i use a harddisk sat-receiver.neocell said:
On a site note : seems like Nascar is also available with season pass now
Anyone notice that Apple now has all the tech to release an all-in-one home entertainment system?
Video iPod + HD Display + iPod HiFi + Front Row + iTMS + Airport Extreme +Jonathan Ives = Sleek white (or black )beautiful entertainment monolith!
Video iPod + HD Display + iPod HiFi + Front Row + iTMS + Airport Extreme +Jonathan Ives = Sleek white (or black
)beautiful entertainment monolith!Two independent films that are available for FREE on iTunes are:
DOT - The award winning mockumentary follows 9 months in the life of an internet startup company, Zectek.com. The self proclaimed "Solution For E-Tomorrow"
P.O.V - I produced and co-directed P.O.V and made it available online last summer in an h.264 format. It has been living on iTunes in an iPod friendly format since January of this year. I have added the trailer and original ending and have interviews, etc. with the cast/crew coming up. I feel that iTunes works much better for me as a distribution method then trying to push a DVD of the film.
DOT - The award winning mockumentary follows 9 months in the life of an internet startup company, Zectek.com. The self proclaimed "Solution For E-Tomorrow"
P.O.V - I produced and co-directed P.O.V and made it available online last summer in an h.264 format. It has been living on iTunes in an iPod friendly format since January of this year. I have added the trailer and original ending and have interviews, etc. with the cast/crew coming up. I feel that iTunes works much better for me as a distribution method then trying to push a DVD of the film.
Um, full length video downloads of TV shows are nice, but, I'd rather just torrent them. Not because I don't want to pay $2, but I delete them after I'm done watching...I don't want to pay $2 for a throw away video. Full length movies, maybe, but not TV shows or disney movies.
Oh, and there's something I don't like about playing videos in iTunes.
Oh, and there's something I don't like about playing videos in iTunes.
Looks Good(not the Moive but that Apple is selling it)
Also the fact you can't get to it with out that link, seems to show Apple does not want Moives being sold yet(they need more)
Also the fact you can't get to it with out that link, seems to show Apple does not want Moives being sold yet(they need more)
Saw the movie the other day, actually quite good
I was in a hotel with my kids (2 and 4) and we watched this together, despite being about high school kids. I was skeptical at first, but it was really good! The dancing is fantastic! The singing is great too, though the lips are off a few times. My kids love dancing so this made them dance for the longest time after we watched it. I just bought and am downloading as I type.
I was in a hotel with my kids (2 and 4) and we watched this together, despite being about high school kids. I was skeptical at first, but it was really good! The dancing is fantastic! The singing is great too, though the lips are off a few times. My kids love dancing so this made them dance for the longest time after we watched it. I just bought and am downloading as I type.
This doesn't feel like a "full length movie" in the way that everyone is getting excited. And what's with the random "add XXX TV show" - that's completely irrelevant to this idea.
So a made for TV movie is on iTunes. They offered something that I highly doubt will even be found on DVD for the foreseeable future. Maybe if Apple moves beyond glorified TV shows there will be reason for the hootin and hollerin. Until then, there is no difference between offering this and offering the two parts of the lost pilot as a single episode.
OK, I'm done. Go back to being excited about a 90 min TV show heralding the coming of full length movies.
So a made for TV movie is on iTunes. They offered something that I highly doubt will even be found on DVD for the foreseeable future. Maybe if Apple moves beyond glorified TV shows there will be reason for the hootin and hollerin. Until then, there is no difference between offering this and offering the two parts of the lost pilot as a single episode.
OK, I'm done. Go back to being excited about a 90 min TV show heralding the coming of full length movies.