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Apple Plans to Launch Original TV Shows Comparable to 'Westworld' and 'Stranger Things' By End of 2017
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Apple could open a line of whorehouses and you'd find a way to defend their honor.
Yes, most movies lose money, and not just by "fatal subtraction" accounting rules. It's not exactly a secret. Promoting a movie is very expensive and does not come out of the production budget. An awful lot of movies don't recoup. It's the blockbusters that keep the ink black. And that's why it's big news when a studio has a couple blockbuster fails in a row.
If you film at higher resolution than 4K (or your intended final output resolution) you can crop the image down in post processing without dropping below 4K resolution.
You'd do that if you need to adjust the framing of the shot for example, or you need to stabilise the shot (which trims a bit of video off the edges).
Once you've done that, if you've filmed in 8K you still have a full 4K resolution output image after you've done any cropping.
If you'd filmed in 4K and cropped the image your output file wouldn't be 4K anymore.
Hope that makes sense!
EDIT: Found this post which explains it a bit better
In his case, he's filming in 4K to crop down and end up with a 1080p output. Same thing as I was saying, just one level down.
https://fstoppers.com/originals/6-reasons-shoot-4k-video-even-if-you-cant-view-it-yet-77535
Yes, most movies lose money. Hundreds get released just from Hollywood each year and only a few make big bucks like Harry Potter or Captain America: Civil War. Some break even, most lose money, and the studios hope the summer blockbusters make up the difference.
This is a big reason why there are so many remakes, sequels, prequels, extended universes, etc.,. because they are seen as less risky investments since they are working off of established brands/IPs. Many movies are also geared to be 'Chinese friendly' so they can be shown in China hopefully tap into that potentially huge revenue stream.
Not sure why you quoted me, as your point has pretty much nothing to do with the one I was making.
Easily. Like many mergers a simple stock swap would do the trick. Currently would be about ~1.25 shares of Time Warner for every share of Apple.
Another option would be financing through a mergers and acquisitions company like Goldman Sachs and leverage their overseas cash.
I was expanding on what I thought Indiekiduk's point was in responding to you. It was only partially aimed at you.
On a slightly related subject, one of the reasons HBO has such great shows is that they do not have to cater to young audiences in order to get the all-important 18-49 demographics that advertisers care about. Showtime/Starz/Netflix/Amazon/Hulu/Apple/etc have this same freedom to create shows that appeal to the people paying them rather than shows that appeal to gullible people who only buy products with flashy ad campaigns. HBO has made some very good choices in picking their shows and they have the money to pay for quality. Most of these other companies have made some hit-or-miss choices and don't have the money to pay for big budget shows. Apple has the money, it remains to be seen if they know how to pick a winning show that appeals to the people willing to pay them to watch it. Having money certainly gives them more options and a better chance of getting quality actors/directors/etc.
Considering Apple's stance against nudity in their apps, I don't think it will be like Westworld.
I was bored to tears with the first episode. 72 minutes of my life lost. Couldn't bring myself to watch episode 2.
The first—and possibly last—show could be a Greek tragedy about the rise and fall of Apple.
Buying Disney would offer Apple customers no benefit. How would it benefit Apple?
If the premise is that you'd have to buy an iPad to watch Star Wars, I think that would be kind of a downer.
I do not defend Apple when they do stupid things. Why would you think such a thing?
Apple is simply creating exclusives, like all their competitors do. How does that compare to opening whorehouses?
That would suck.
- The hosts would only run for the entire day if they sit around in rocking chairs talking. The gunslingers and whores would run down four hours into the story-line.
- If you didn't like the prostitutes, Apple would say you were "screwing them wrong".
- The hosts' conversation skills would be far below that of the hosts in Google's Mideval world.
- The landscape would be a barren pure desert like the Bonneville Salt Flats, can't have too much color.
- A Whiskey would be $5 even though the world runs in 1860's currency valuations.
It's a very good looking and well acted show. Storywise, it's a bit of a mess.
HBO is certainly targeting demographics, especially those that fall between 18-49.
I welcome anyone who aims to produce quality content, as opposed to reality shows, terrible documentaries, reruns of people bidding on junk, etc.
Wait, don't i have to go to 'my computer' to start playing my music?
( agreed - messy system - very un-apple-like.
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If they could find a way to continue James Parriott's Defying Gravity, that's all I'd need. Still the best tv ever and cancelled so sadly. Plus they could show off all manner of Apple future tech ideas. Passengers was a future tech geek out, and was amazing for it. Even a series out of that would rock. Put the spaceship campus to spaceship use!
Why, oh why? Apple should focus on developing better devices (Mac, iPhone, etc.), not on "edgy" television.