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Thursday, March 02, 2006 8:26 AM PT Posted by Liane Cassavoy
An iTunes Movie Service?
If you haven't had your fill of Apple product announcements and speculation this week, here's one more tidbit for you: the folks over at AppleInsider.com are reporting that Apple may be working on an iTunes movie download service.The service, which would be available only to users with broadband connections, would offer movies much the way iTunes currently offers songs, providing "on-demand access to movies that could be downloaded to a computer or iPod," AppleInsider says.
This news comes during a very busy week for Apple. At an event on Tuesday at the company's Cupertino headquarters, Steve Jobs unveiled new Intel-based Mac Minis and the iPod Hi-Fi, a home-stereo quality speaker set for iPods.
What do you think? Are you interested in an iTunes movie service? Or have you heard enough Apple news for one week?
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Sounds great to me. The more we have available, the more useful the technology becomes. I must say though, watching full movies on the iPod screen sounds like a receipe for nausea.
Only if the movie quality was as good as a DVD would I pay the same price. If the quality is less, then I'd only use it if the price were cheaper. Either way I'd HAVE to be able to view them on my TV and iPod otherwise, all bets are off.
First, yes I have heard enough Apple news this week. Seems like PC World has become "Apple World".
As for an iTunes movie service? Meh. It's not a bad thing, but nothing i'll use. This is only really good for the proliferation of the tech. I would be interested in one day being able to download (legally) full length DVD's to my computer and stream them from my PC to my home theater system. But then again, we DO have cable/satellite On-Demand stuff that does that already, and elimates the computer factor all together.
iTunes movies are about as interesting to me as UMD movies.
It'll be such a low resolution and bitrate it won't constitute any price. Even if you just want a mobile movie (Ipod video), you could just buy a $100 (Hey, you spent $400 on an ipod) 7" DVD player.
A word to the wise, make your own ipod compatible videos out of "your" movies. Since this site is US based I think they would pull links, but, Afterdawn with show you hwo to do everything and all the software you need is DVD Shrink and for some encryptions AnyDVD from SLysoft.
Big picture - all downloaded movies will look like garbage, Apple can't afford 4GB of bandwidth per movie
Sounds fantastic -- I've been waiting for it. It's awesome to be able to play movies on my video iPod while stuck in airports, planes, etc. And believe it or not, watching a full length movie on the iPod is pretty cool. Nothing bad about it at all. Seems like the people who complain about it have never done it. I'll be thrilled when iTunes gets the movies!!
I've heard that Apple is coming out with a new touch-screen iPod in May, which would feature NO clickwheel but instead a much, much larger screen that fills the entire front of the iPod. I would wait for that to watch movies on, rather the tiny screen they have now.
hey, if any movie is $3.99 to own, thats the kicker for me buying a video iPod. If they're going to ask $9.99 for a movie when I can get higher quality from an exported DVD and subitles (i have a hearing loss), then forget it. but $4 or $5 for a movie on an iPod is a very attractive price point, assuming they can fit a battery in there efficient enough to play a whole movie with charge to spare.....
they should be able to afford 4gb bandwidth per movie as they have just spent $50000000 on a data facility in newark
I can't wait! I don't want to drive or wait for DVD's to arrive in the mail. I want instant movie gratification just the way I get instant music gratification through iTunes. I actually signed up for Vongo recently and it works, but they have very limited choice. I'm sure Apple would somehow manage to offer more choice.