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'iTunes Replay' On-Demand Video Coming?

And what happens if/when Apple decide to take the service away, unlike the old DRM model where you could still play them on your system they won't be available at all!!!!

This is a p!ss poor idea if you ask me, leave it to the TV companies to produce something, look at the trouble BBC iPlayer is stirring up with ISP's because of the volume of data hitting ISP's now.

This over 3g will kill the mobile systems.
 
have fun streaming movies on 3g. good idea. not quite ready yet with the technology available. in home yes. out and about. nope
 
I am so excited. Really.. I am
 

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I am already doing this on my :apple:TV a server in my office streams all of my content to the device, I dont need to copy it to the device. All that with no additional monthly subscription. Why would I want to purchase a movie from apple only to have to pay again to watch it on my iPhone only to save on having to sync??
 
No one has stated that Apple plans on charing a fee to stream your data from the cloud. They might, but let's not crucify them on that point yet.

When and if Apple 'takes the service away', you simply download all the content you've paid for locally. No one said this will replace downloaded movies/music/tv shows. Only enhance the way you store/watch them.
 
Seems like a good idea.

At home I prefer to have my movies on the computer. But for the laptop/iPhone/touch, this would be very handy when traveling.
 
How about they open up the iPhone/Touch to allow streaming of music and movies from a home networked computer? I mean, Simplify has already shown it can be done with the music (I won't go into the horrific battery drain this causes, though).

Personally, if I buy something, I want what I buy in my possession. Relying on Apple to have this service up and at 100% 24/7/365 doesn't do it for me. They can barely get iDisk going, no way in the hell they get this right.

Just open up the iPhone/Touch and allow the USB port on the AppleTV to be used for extended drives. I'd be happy with that.
 
Trajectory said:
The Apple TV is a piece of crap. Apple needs to fix the many, many bugs that still exist in the Apple TV firmware and software before they start announcing new services and features. Just take a look at the ATV forum on the Apple site, it's full of messages by ATV owners who are having to wait 10-20 hours for content to be downloaded before they can play it. It's been going on for 2 months now. As usual, Apple ignores them.

Don't buy an Apple TV. It's not worth the money at all.
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I have to disagree. I love my Apple TV, it functions fantastically for both streaming movies/music to another side of my house. What I do agree with, though, is Apple not expanding the Apple TV. I don't mean DVR functions or Blu-Ray, I mean Apple needs to improve the software for easier use (the menus are horribly designed), the sorting of TV shows is strange, and the device still cannot go into standby automatically.

The initial base of the Apple TV is a good foundation - but Apple should decide what they want it to be. Clearly, the capacity alone is becoming a hinderance to many users.
 
I like this idea, my only bugbear with the iPhone that I have is that it only has 8Gb of storage capacity, so only so many videos, TV shows etc. are accessible at any one time. If for whatever reason I'm without a computer for a while, what's on there is stuck on there and there's no way to get new content short of buying music from mobile iTunes.

I would be prepared to pay extra per item (or a monthly fee) to have perpetual access to all purchased content in the cloud that can be streamed through a web browser a-la-Youtube, or streamed to my iPhone on demand.

It would be great, if I bought a season pass to something, as soon as an episodes had been broadcast it was available on the cloud for viewing immediately and when I next turned my computer on it is downloaded as usual.

Would be even more impressive if it could be done over 3G as well as wlan...

I think with the rise of broadband connections, buffering etc. is far less of an issue and I'm very happy with the streaming experience I get from, say Spotify or Last.fm and I think it's time for a legal service that gives you access to your library which doesn't require a home computer to be on, connected to the Internet, using up electricity etc.

Hopefully sooner rather than later! :apple::D
 
LOL :p

1. Scan macrumors for good ideas
2. Patent them (even if they are completly obvious for someone not technologically challenged)
3. (Wait for stupid patent review to approve the patent.) Not really necessary.
4. Profit?

I know I suggested something like this in a Macrumors post a while before Apple "patented" the idea. I said something like "why keep increasing the capacity of the memory on the phone and carry the thing around when you have all your music at home and I thought it was completly Amish (much like I think about the iPhone in general, but escpecially the first one without 3G)

Now I've used "Spotify" and modified my views and I think downloading music is a bit last century. So here,s something new for you to patent Apple (pay attention please); Don't stream music/media from the users home-drives on their PCs, allow them to search a global collection of all music/media, create smart playlists and stream _that_ to their phones over the air.

Now go and write a patent application, never mind it's obvious for anyone with a brain.

Edit: Oh... that's what's already done. Just got stuck on the last line when I saw they patentented "my" idea :) Anyway: http://www.mobile-phones.co.uk/blog/2009/02/05/spotify-for-s60.htm
 
I think streaming is lame and should be avoided whenever possible. Even the smallest iPhone or iPod has more than enough space to download something then delete it after if space is an issue.

I would like to be able to re-download purchased stuff from a history of downloads (a digital locker kind of thing) though, I don't understand why iTunes doesn't have that option already.
 
notjustjay said:
I don't know about a monthly fee.

I'd pay a premium on content ($1.29 a song?) if it meant I could download a copy to keep, PLUS have a copy "in the cloud" ready for me to play anytime to any authorized computer, iPhone, Apple TV, etc. Bonus points if I can get it to a UPnP or DLNA-enabled media center, like an XBox, PS3, or those internet streaming radios.

I'd also be willing to pay a discounted price on movies, etc. to "lease" it -- it wouldn't let me download a copy to keep, but I could stream it anytime to the above devices. Like an endless rental with unlimited plays.

I doubt these are inline with what Apple or the industry wants to do, but those are the services I would personally be interested in.
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Paying for premium is fine - I'm not interested in he cloud though, the signal reception is too poor on the iPhone.
 
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bacaramac said:
From a business perspective I see this as a great revenue generation tool. Buy from us and you can stream to any of our hardware devices.

From a personal user experience, I just want Apple to allow me to watch movies (Apple TV) without the need to have iTunes up and running on a host computer (I keep all movies on NAS) and also allow me to stream my personal movies from my home network to my iPhone (not from Apple Servers).

Overall I think this is atleast a step in the right direction.
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I'd like to be able to stream any of my personal content to my iPhone as well. I don't really mind having a host computer running iTunes all the time in order to stream to the AppleTV though. It would be nice not to need the computer runnng though.
 
Non-Patentable - Already Prior Art

Sony already has this capability between the Sony Playstation 3 and the Sony PSP. I hope Apple is not lying to the Patent lawyers on this one, and I hope Sony is watching and cites its prior art. And with Sony PSP it's free!
 
veeco3110 said:
have fun streaming movies on 3g. good idea. not quite ready yet with the technology available. in home yes. out and about. nope
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3G was designed for video. Video calling never really caught on, but streaming both live and recorded TV has been a standard part of 3G phones ever since they were introduced many years ago - many's the time you'll be in a pub to find a group of people huddled over a phone watching the football.

The problem is the data limits. Video streaming from your provider is generally unlimited.. once you start streaming from a 3rd party it comes out of your limit and that goes very fast (and anyway it's against the T&C to stream video on the iphone).
 
The rest of the world...

Hope this new iTunes 8, stremaing and stuff come to "other places" besides US /UK....

Otherwise it will be just be another missed chance by Hollywood and the like to make some profit. As I am already enjoying their shows on my AppleTV but they don't get anything out of it. (and yes, I pay every single song, just CANNOT do the same for movies)
 
How dumb can this be?

The service, to be called "iTunes Replay", would eliminate the need for users to provide significant storage space for their libraries of purchased digital video.
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Good gosh, this is the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. What a spin on locking us into a streaming host instead of giving us DRM free copies of our purchases.

Limited disk space? Are you kidding me? Which do you think is more limited, your disk space or your network connection? Give me a break here Apple. I can't believe anyone would consider NOT having a copy of what they purchase on their hard drive.

My ISP tops out at 1.5mb. No streaming video for me. Now, allow it to download fully, remain on my hard drive, and I'll play at will...this I will buy in a heart beat!
 
Riverbeds said:
Sony already has this capability between the Sony Playstation 3 and the Sony PSP. I hope Apple is not lying to the Patent lawyers on this one, and I hope Sony is watching and cites its prior art. And with Sony PSP it's free!
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That is not the same thing, other apple devices already do that as well.

THe report describes and additional service added to itms video purchases where as well as downloading your physical copy you can also choose to stream that content to your other device from the itunes server, not one of your devices acting as host.

This means that unlike with the ps3-psp you dont need the device holding your downloaded copy to be turned on.
I currently make use of the locationfree-esque service of the ps3-psp combo and would love to be able to do the same thing without having to leave a device at home running.

Although my psp is currently the best portability/screen quality ratio device i own at the moment.
 
This would be cool if it was free, and content had hulu-style ads. Can't see apple doing that though.
 
What if they allowed you to rip your own DVDs, slap some DRM on it and store them in the cloud as well. Then you could have all your media content stored on Apples cloud, stream it to any devices you wanted and since its protected and stored in the cloud the studios would be ok with making a ripped copy of it? Now that is an idea that I think has some legs.
 
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