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iTunes Video Sales Top 1 Million

You just know that there will be a whole new section to these file sharing programs. "Ipod Videos".

I mean I have already encoded the first 3 seasons of The Andy Griffith Show in 320 x 240 H.264. (They look extremely good.)

I am soon to begin encoding all 9 seasons of Little House On The Prairie.

I know that there has to be other who are doing the same thing with other videos. It is only a matter of time before some P2P app pops up specializing in video for Ipod.

BTW, Torrent sites are the worst. All of them!
 
more videos

hey so has anyone else noticed that more music videos have been added recently, they dont really seem to advertise when they do it, but for example Green Day went from 1 to like 8. I think it wont be too long before another broadasting coompany gets in on the act. Or we at least maybe get some more abc stuff. (although that could also extend to channels like espn that are also owned by disney.)
 
Lord Blackadder said:
I know I'm vastly in the minority on this, but I'd like them to make shows from the Discovery and History/History International channels available.
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You are not alone. I know I'd buy more than a few History channel shows, but they'd have to key up a pretty dep catalog for it to work. Just because they did a show last week doesn't make it interesting, there are things several years old I'd rather be watching. This is certainly more difficult than putting up a show like Lost that's only a year old and is strongly episodic. :D
 
AtomFilms deserves iPod support

If getting more content is the name of the game, then Apple should definitely extend an olive branch to AtomFilms. They've got a massive library of digital content just waiting to be ported to the iPod. They've also already got a distribution system and a rating system. They might be wary of having to port their entire system to the little video section on iTunes, fearing that doing the new iTunes system justice would take too many resources away from their primary site. Apple needs to talk with them, come to a solution, and push hard to get the plan carried through.

I know this sounds like Apple will be putting a lot of their own resources towards just the video aspects of iTunes, but in order for this to have any sort of long term life, it needs to take off quickly. Once it is really established, new content will develop itself, like the Podcast community has (even before iTunes integrated it).
 
liketom said:
lol you doubted Jobs?
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No, I just thought that most people could care less for video on an iPod. I figured it was just the geeky folks (like myself) who were making the most noise for video. My bad. I'm happy though 'cause I own Apple stock! It's good to be wrong sometimes. :rolleyes:
 
Steamboatwillie said:
No, I just thought that most people could care less for video on an iPod. I figured it was just the geeky folks (like myself) who were making the most noise for video. My bad. I'm happy though 'cause I own Apple stock! It's good to be wrong sometimes. :rolleyes:
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yeah i thought that as well


welcome to the revolution:D
 
Traffic

So... a million in 20days eh?

most of the downloads would be tv episodes, would you reckon?
How big (mb) is an episode? For a 43min episode... 100mb?

cos.. how's apples traffic going for all these downloads..?

i figure, 1million x 80mb (average size download including music videos and tv shows?) = 80tb +/- in 20 days?!!!

woah.. imagine the traffic once the video downloads become mainstream like music has!

:eek: :) :) :)
 
For those who believe me…

I saw this coming when Apple started having videos viewable in iTunes (not the pay ones, the free ones like 1-2 years ago). I even saw that Stevie boy would use his Pixar clout to muscle Disney into offering content.

So here's my prediction:

-iPods sell like mad
-the only video content that will sell will be for a medium that sells like mad
-therefore the iTunes video store will own the online video download industry like it already owns the music one.

So farther off there are clearly going to be full length feature films, full seasons of television and individual shows, oh and music videos (but who cares?).

Apple thus becomes one of the most powerful media companies period (with the iPod both promoting sales and along for the ride). How many years will it be before the iBook....er... iRead.... whatever they'll call it. Digital audio books are already sold by Apple, in 20 years I imagine LCD screens will be cheap enough to make a little Star Trek esque tablet for reading books. Yes paper feels better. But liner notes sell music too, right? Wrong, iTunes has already shown that if you make it cheap enough digitally people will buy it.

So here's the situation in 10 years. Apple is taking on Amazon AND the television networks for being the uber media sales company. Anyone buy it?

David:cool:
 
Movies in iTunes???

A few interesting tidbits from a friend of mine who works in acquisitions at a free to air TV network in Sydney.
One of the free to air TV networks has already snapped up the TV rights for this film (Bondi Tsunami) in anticipation that it will hit it large by being the first movie you can "shuffle" and a new media phenomenon. Some quotes from earlier in the year by the director state that the movie is to be enjoyed in different ways. One of which is to whack it in the DVD player and hit "random".
This obviously lends itself perfectly to be an iTunes downloadable movie. It is also a "music video motion picture" as described by the makers themselves.

It will be interesting to see what comes of this.
 

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Survivor!

I could see "survivor" heading over very easily. Survivor is currently playing on outdoor life channel. I think they would easily accept an offer to show all of the survivor episodes on iTunes.
 
Coca-Cola said:
I could see "survivor" heading over very easily. Survivor is currently playing on outdoor life channel. I think they would easily accept an offer to show all of the survivor episodes on iTunes.
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I wouldn't download Survivor episodes because they have really low to non-existent replay value.

Give me episodes of Dr. Who 2005 or Simpsons or Family Guy. Those have tremendous replay value.
 
it's so hard to judge numbers like a million, we really have no concrete concept of how big it is.

It sounds big, though two million dollars a month after product launch is nothing compared with 199 million (min) for 17 days with the nano, or compared with whatever the enormous rate is on music.

That said, they've got next to no content to provide, and very few 5th gen ipods have been shipped...

So what's it all mean? I'd say that if apple gets contracts for most of the content on TV, this will be a major phenomanon. If not.... the numbers are only OK, don't expect much.

now, can we expect a major deal? no idea, but I sure hope so.
 
Lacero said:
I wouldn't download Survivor episodes because they have really low to non-existent replay value.

Give me episodes of Dr. Who 2005 or Simpsons or Family Guy. Those have tremendous replay value.
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Clearly, "replay value" is subjective. :)

But, seriously, I could see myself buying something that I wouldn't necessarily watch more than once. I paid money to rent the first season of Lost from Blockbuster. If it were cheaper to just buy the first season though iTunes, I would have done that. In either case, I'm not going to watch all those episodes more than once.

Or maybe you meant that, say, Survivor has no replay value because everyone already knows who "won" or whatever? But I don't, because I never paid attention to it.
 
Lord Blackadder said:
I know I'm vastly in the minority on this, but I'd like them to make shows from the Discovery and History/History International channels available.
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Yes. I agree 100%
 
WeBleed4Real said:
We'll see how long this lasts, or if it was just people being curious at the next "new thing".
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Yes, we will. I detect some cynicism. Beware, o Cynic. Vast were those laid waste who doubted Apple in selling music. Last I heard, Apple's on the downslope of a billion songs sold. Apple will have more content than you can shake a stick at. 1 Million is nothing.
 
This is great, can't wait for more content. I really hope that they put up Alias and Veronica Mars. I'm having to record Alias right now since I'm busy Thursday nights, and we don't have UPN so I have to crash at friends' houses. It would be much easier to get them on iTunes.
 
Awesome news! I was looking forward to see how the videos are selling this is just amazing. Steve Jobs definitely has something here, and it's only going to get better. I'm interested in seeing what networks jump in next. :)

w00t!
 
Mmmmmmmmm.....Simpsons replays.....

Lacero said:
I wouldn't download Survivor episodes because they have really low to non-existent replay value.

Give me episodes of Dr. Who 2005 or Simpsons or Family Guy. Those have tremendous replay value.
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(Poor Homer impression) Mmmmmm- Simpsons replys.......
 
Is there an episode 6 of Lost?

fed-ex said:
hey so has anyone else noticed that more music videos have been added recently, they dont really seem to advertise when they do it, but for example Green Day went from 1 to like 8. I think it wont be too long before another broadasting coompany gets in on the act. Or we at least maybe get some more abc stuff. (although that could also extend to channels like espn that are also owned by disney.)
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All: I'm living outside USA, and seeing as I can't find episode 6 on iTunes, I'm not too sure if there was an episode shown on 10/26. Can anyone please verify?

Much appreciated!

Phillip
 
Steamboatwillie said:
Wow, I didn't see that coming. I really thought it would flop. I guess I was wrong and Jobs was right.
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No, no, no... you were wrong and Jobs was totally wrong... I was right!!! See Steve, it was a good idea to have video... the PSP proved it... so now, shut up and start working on a bigger-widescreen version of the iPod video.
 
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