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MGM & United Artists now on iTunes!!
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By the end of the year almost all studios will be on iTunes. Just watch.
As soon as all of them are on board Apple will think about both HD and movie rentals. It just doesn't make much sense until the studios see that it is working at all.
As soon as all of them are on board Apple will think about both HD and movie rentals. It just doesn't make much sense until the studios see that it is working at all.
MGM ... already a part of Disney???
DisneyWorld in Florida has Disney/MGM Studios - isn't MGM already a part of Disney? This is more of an extension of the Disney Movie agreement ... no?
DisneyWorld in Florida has Disney/MGM Studios - isn't MGM already a part of Disney? This is more of an extension of the Disney Movie agreement ... no?
MGM is on board, but no sign of "The Abominable Dr Phibes"? Sheesh...
I believe that movie is in the free domain - you might want to check.
Still no movies or TV shows inb Germany
We don't even have those pixar films yet...! We have the link on our front-page, but we're not allowed to buy..!
No. Disney doesn't own MGM. They have a partnership with their Disney/MGM lot and theme park, but MGM is owned by several companies including Comcast and Sony Pictures, which have a 20% stake each.
Press Release Up
Apple has posted a press release on it's site: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/04/11itunes.htmlarn said:
Uh.....
JAMES BOND?!?!
Hello?! One of the single most popular movie franchises during the past 40 years and it doesn't even get a mention.
Ridiculous.
-Clive
They had Robocop. Same style, same coolness factor.
What's so great about Bond anyways?
Casino Royale (A Bond movie) may have singlehandedly helped BlueRay win the HD video format war - THAT's how big Bond is.
James Bond movies are HUGE overseas.
Robocop?! You can't be serious! Robocop and James Bond are nothing alike!
James Bond is suave, cunning and a complete ladies-man, who has saved the world 21 times. Robocop is a crime-fighting cyborg who has saved detroit thrice. Whoop-dee fricken doo.
Robocop is to Bond as StarGate is to Star Wars. Both are great movies but Star Wars will always be regarded with greater majesty than StarGate. Likewise, with James Bond.
-Clive
For me the big deal is a small detail that Apple slipped into the press release. Lets step back to MacWorld when we got the last info about the success of Movie Sales on iTunes.
"MACWORLD SAN FRANCISCOJanuary 9, 2007Apple® today announced that more than two billion songs, 50 million television episodes and over 1.3 million feature-length films have been purchased and downloaded from the iTunes® "
In today's release,
"The iTunes Store has sold over 2.5 billion songs, 50 million TV shows and over two million movies,"
Now 3 months later Apple has sold an additional 700,000 movies. Movie sales are accelerating.
"MACWORLD SAN FRANCISCOJanuary 9, 2007Apple® today announced that more than two billion songs, 50 million television episodes and over 1.3 million feature-length films have been purchased and downloaded from the iTunes® "
In today's release,
"The iTunes Store has sold over 2.5 billion songs, 50 million TV shows and over two million movies,"
Now 3 months later Apple has sold an additional 700,000 movies. Movie sales are accelerating.
One thing: make all the widescreen TV series actually BE WIDESCREEN. Some are wide already... but some are cropped. Watching them on my widescreen Mac with black bars where action used to be is enough to keep me from buying Firefly (the pilot was shot in widescreen) and the new BSG Miniseries (also shot widescreen). (iTunes does have the BSG follow-up series in widescreen though.) I blame the networks rather than Apple.
At standard def, I'd want to see it under $3 (what Netflix cost me when I hit their "secret limit" and they started sending from distant cities to slow me down to their unpublished monthly limit
). At high-def, I would be willing to pay more.Really it's more a matter of how OFTEN I'd rent at different price levels. At $5 I'd rent occasionally to entertain a group immediately with no driving or hassle. Shave a buck or two off and I'd do it more often on impulse.
Judging by the popularity of TVLand, Nick and Nite and the host of other cable networks that have syndicated/repeat TV shows, and the upteen times they show a movie on those channels (National Treasure comes on USA Network 3 times this coming weekend!), I'd say that there are plenty of people who watch the same stuff over and over again.
Likewise, look at the popularity of TV shows on DVD, and DVD sales in general. Obviously there are plenty of people who would rather purchase their content rather than rent it.
If I could purchase, for a reasonable cost, full seasons of several of my favorite TV shows, I'm very interested. Will I buy any TV show just to check it out, probably not...
Sounds great
Wow this is great news. I just wish Apple would add more TV shows from the different networks to include a networks entire line up of shows. If they did that then their a la carte pricing would be cheaper than subscibing to cable TV!
Just think for $100 you could get season passes to 5 different TV shows and still have access to news and other entertainment for free through podcasts. Instead of paying $70-$100 per month for cable TV. I think the people who really need to worry about how successful the AppleTV will be are the Cable TV providers.
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Wow this is great news. I just wish Apple would add more TV shows from the different networks to include a networks entire line up of shows. If they did that then their a la carte pricing would be cheaper than subscibing to cable TV!
Just think for $100 you could get season passes to 5 different TV shows and still have access to news and other entertainment for free through podcasts. Instead of paying $70-$100 per month for cable TV. I think the people who really need to worry about how successful the AppleTV will be are the Cable TV providers.
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Oh man, Casino Royale has got to be one of the worst films of all time. Talk about a stinking pile of . . . I mean, who wants to watch stupid poker scenes? And why even try to have realistic fight scenes after that opening scene that was completely out of, like, Mario Brothers? Who can jump that high or run that fast? Nobody. And that Bond girl looks like she's about 13.
Bond is supposed to be "out there," right? Then why was Casino Royale trying to be more "real?"
Anyway, I would pay to rent movies on iTunes, but I think there's a major hangup: Internet connections. I have DSL and it's not nearly fast enough to download a few gigs worth of movie. Sure, I can leave it running all day, but that's not how most people rent movies. It's more like, "hey, let's get a movie." Not exactly doable when it takes four or five hours to download.
Wow, you seriously must not have read the original book. Ian Fleming would be disappointed in ur diss.
Yeah, well, look at how popular NetFlix is. And with that, you wait 2-3 days to get a movie!
And my Comcast subscription. If Apple can figure out a decent solution for streaming live content in HD quality -- even at a very slight delay -- and can get it to me without breaking the bank, Netflix, Blockbuster, Comcast, Charter et al. can eat it.