Ok, so I'm in a brainstorming mood, things that could happen if the whole video aspect of iTunes takes off in a big way:
(This sort of turned into a wishlist as well)
- Lottery numbers announced via podcast or something similar
- Interactive things like voting who to evict off Big Brother or who you want to win American Idol or something
- If the numbers were big enough, I'd like to see Apple actually branch into having it's own network. In the sense that they could comission their own TV Shows, as it would be paid for by the downloads, cancelling? Well there's no way to lie about the downloads, you can't say it's not showing everyone or people were busy that night, that's the beauty of the iTMS.
- Advanced showings of a TV shows premiere for free (I know they've started doing this already, but it's a great way of enticing the viewers, and I think if every pilot were free it would be a great way, sort of an advance on the 30 second preview option).
- Movies. But when do these get released? When the DVD's do? When they stop being shown at the cinema? When the film get's released at the cinema? That sure would stop a lot of bootleg copies. This would be interesting to think about.
- Multi-pass function expanded to be similar to the podcast subscription, no need to click "Check for purposes".
- Shows to be added the minute after they're aired on TV.
- Similar to an earlier one, but maybe have a free download of the week of independant films/shows that have been made by people who haven't been given a budget by network or anything, depending on the success maybe it could be picked up by a network, or just simply added as a TV show, this would be interesting to see, $1.99 going straight to the creators, it would give them their own budget to create whatever show they wanted, they want good effects, they can hire people or just do it themselves. No network execs saying what is needed, no censorship, complete freedom.
- iTMS real life stores. Sometimes it's nice to just get out of the house and it's fun to be able to look around a store when looking to buy. Just walk in with your laptop, connect wirelessly with your iTunes account. Could be a fun shop.
- Music concerts/festivals available, this will no doubt be available soon, not as individual songs like now in the Music Videos section.
The obvious things:
Higher resolution
Some sort of 'Buy Every Episode' function, discount for buying an entire series
Special features such as commentarries available as seperate audio tracks
More meta-data such as the cast and crew details
K I haven't slept in 72 hours and I'm all out. This post may well simply be me typing 'jjjjjjjjjjjjj' repeatedly and I honestly wouldn't know.
Any revolutionary ideas you guys got?
