Sony wants an 'iTunes for movies'

[Blue Velvet]

Sony is to make its top 500 films available digitally in the next year.
Michael Arrieta, senior vice president of Sony Pictures, said at a US Digital Hollywood conference that it wanted to create an "iTunes" for films.

Films will be put onto flash memory for mobiles over the next year, said Mr Arrieta, and it will develop its digital download services for films.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4396481.stm



Come on in, the water's fine!

Seriously, who doubted this would happen? Sony should be in a good position but they've dropped the ball before...

 

[iGary]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4396481.stm



Come on in, the water's fine!

Seriously, who doubted this would happen? Sony should be in a good position but they've dropped the ball before...

*pan to corporate board rooms everywhere:*

"Holy ****, Steve's really doing it, he's jumping into the video pool."

"Christ almighty, did Jobs just say video - he hates video?"

"OMG WTF LOL1111!!!!!"

Sony really has become a follower of late.

 

[MacNut]

Can you say Sony Apple partnership.

 

[Lacero]

I didn't realize the 'Year of HD' was 320x240 pixels.

 

[anonymous161]

I didn't realize the 'Year of HD' was 320x240 pixels.

Bravo.

 

[iGary]

I didn't realize the 'Year of HD' was 320x240 pixels.

*falls down laughing*

 

[MacNut]

What Steve meant was Hard Drives for the ipod.

 

[Mac_Freak]

*falls down laughing*

You mean Huge Down-sample ;D

 

[stoid]

I didn't realize the 'Year of HD' was 320x240 pixels.

You didn't expect to get HD quality from an iPod did you?

However, I agree, it would be cool to have a 99¢ version at low-def for the iPod, or $1.99 720p version for the computer. Though, you need a pretty wicked fast machine to H.264 even 720p, so you'd have lots of complaints there. Maybe in a few years, when bandwidth gets a little faster (1Gb internet standard instead of 256Kb) and processors can handle H.264 it can really start to take off. This is just a pilot program, a timid tiptoe in the water to see if it works.

 

[jayscheuerle]

You didn't expect to get HD quality from an iPod did you?

However, I agree, it would be cool to have a 99¢ version at low-def for the iPod, or $1.99 720p version for the computer. Though, you need a pretty wicked fast machine to H.264 even 720p, so you'd have lots of complaints there. Maybe in a few years, when bandwidth gets a little faster (1Gb internet standard instead of 256Kb) and processors can handle H.264 it can really start to take off. This is just a pilot program, a timid tiptoe in the water to see if it works.

With H.264 at 720p you'll also need around 20 gigs for a 40 minute show (hour show without commercials). This is where the BlueRay and HDDVDs are going to come in handy.

 

[BrianKonarsMac]

I didn't realize the 'Year of HD' was 320x240 pixels.

indeed. what a mockery.

 

[Abstract]

When they say, "flash memory," is Sony going to be dumb enough to only allow these movies to be put on Memory Sticks? Do you know how much those sticks cost?

 

[NeoMayhem]

With H.264 at 720p you'll also need around 20 gigs for a 40 minute show (hour show without commercials). This is where the BlueRay and HDDVDs are going to come in handy.

Hum, No.

With h.264 it could be about 1.5gb.