Comments on: Apple plots a DVD player for the broadband era http://gigaom.com/2007/06/10/apple-plots-a-dvd-player-for-the-broadband-era/ The Business of Technology Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:51:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Mike http://gigaom.com/2007/06/10/apple-plots-a-dvd-player-for-the-broadband-era/#comment-186303 Mike Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:53:57 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/06/10/apple-tv-movie-rentals/#comment-186303 <p>Apple is foward thinking. As soon as AppleTV has movie rental service, I'd jump in. I've been looking for a decent 'jukebox' for all my dvds, and AppleTV is the best solution for me, although the process of converting your DVDs to AppleTV format is lengthy, it's worth it. Being able to just sit down with your remote and scroll through my entire collection without having to get up and swap a disc is great.</p> <p>A lot of people have thousands of CDs, and the iPod was the jukebox of choice. I have over a thousand DVDs and need an easy way to access any movie at any time, and AppleTV makes this simple. It won't be long until the masses jump on the bandwagon. As soon as a DVD can be converted in minutes rather than hours, it will be mainstream.</p> Apple is foward thinking. As soon as AppleTV has movie rental service, I’d jump in. I’ve been looking for a decent ‘jukebox’ for all my dvds, and AppleTV is the best solution for me, although the process of converting your DVDs to AppleTV format is lengthy, it’s worth it. Being able to just sit down with your remote and scroll through my entire collection without having to get up and swap a disc is great.

A lot of people have thousands of CDs, and the iPod was the jukebox of choice. I have over a thousand DVDs and need an easy way to access any movie at any time, and AppleTV makes this simple. It won’t be long until the masses jump on the bandwagon. As soon as a DVD can be converted in minutes rather than hours, it will be mainstream.

]]> By: Arvin Dang http://gigaom.com/2007/06/10/apple-plots-a-dvd-player-for-the-broadband-era/#comment-183746 Arvin Dang Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:23:50 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/06/10/apple-tv-movie-rentals/#comment-183746 <p>I don't think consumers are looking to pay $2.99 for a rental. I think we (at least I) would love to see a Netflix style model through the AppleTV. Imagine having unlimited rentals, 3 downloads at a time for say $30 a month. Keep them for as long as you subscribe to the service, have it someway/how transfer to your ipod for on the go. As soon as you delete one, you can download another straight from your queue to your appletv, and then throw in HD. what better could you ask for?</p> <p>http://dot-thought.blogspot.com/</p> I don’t think consumers are looking to pay $2.99 for a rental. I think we (at least I) would love to see a Netflix style model through the AppleTV. Imagine having unlimited rentals, 3 downloads at a time for say $30 a month. Keep them for as long as you subscribe to the service, have it someway/how transfer to your ipod for on the go. As soon as you delete one, you can download another straight from your queue to your appletv, and then throw in HD. what better could you ask for?

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]]> By: Sanny http://gigaom.com/2007/06/10/apple-plots-a-dvd-player-for-the-broadband-era/#comment-175483 Sanny Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:43:26 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/06/10/apple-tv-movie-rentals/#comment-175483 <p>I would like to be able to view a movie, TV-show etc when I feel like it, not necessarily when the broadcast media think I should. Just some examples, I may be out thus missing the a show. I may be living in another country that simply does not send the shows I would like to view. How does people overcome this obstacle? People download the shows and they do not much care if they are illigal or not.</p> <p>To be able to view what we want when we want to the best media to allow us this as of today are via broadband. However, to be able to compete with pirated material content owners and content distributors will have to reduce their cost and increase the picture quality of the materials, for instance TV-Shows. In addition, it has to become as simple as renting, byuing or viewing a show on your normal system.</p> <p>With Apple TV and iTunes they are on the right track. Simplicity, quality (supporting or going to support h264 encoding). But there still is an issue with content delivery costs. One possible way, in my oppinion, to solve this problem is to use "new" or not "accepted" technologies such as p2p.</p> I would like to be able to view a movie, TV-show etc when I feel like it, not necessarily when the broadcast media think I should. Just some examples, I may be out thus missing the a show. I may be living in another country that simply does not send the shows I would like to view. How does people overcome this obstacle? People download the shows and they do not much care if they are illigal or not.

To be able to view what we want when we want to the best media to allow us this as of today are via broadband. However, to be able to compete with pirated material content owners and content distributors will have to reduce their cost and increase the picture quality of the materials, for instance TV-Shows. In addition, it has to become as simple as renting, byuing or viewing a show on your normal system.

With Apple TV and iTunes they are on the right track. Simplicity, quality (supporting or going to support h264 encoding). But there still is an issue with content delivery costs. One possible way, in my oppinion, to solve this problem is to use “new” or not “accepted” technologies such as p2p.

]]> By: Pankaj Narula http://gigaom.com/2007/06/10/apple-plots-a-dvd-player-for-the-broadband-era/#comment-172158 Pankaj Narula Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:49:52 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/06/10/apple-tv-movie-rentals/#comment-172158 <p>Om,</p> <p>On the bandwidth note, I am ashamed to admit I am still on a plain vanilla DSL line from SBC umm.. AT&T. Available bandwidth in the price point I (usual consumer) am looking hasn't changed much since the giddy days of '99</p> <p>Let us see what happens in future.</p> <ul> <li>Pankaj</li> </ul> Om,

On the bandwidth note, I am ashamed to admit I am still on a plain vanilla DSL line from SBC umm.. AT&T. Available bandwidth in the price point I (usual consumer) am looking hasn’t changed much since the giddy days of ‘99

Let us see what happens in future.

  • Pankaj
]]> By: John Burkey http://gigaom.com/2007/06/10/apple-plots-a-dvd-player-for-the-broadband-era/#comment-171963 John Burkey Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:28:39 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/06/10/apple-tv-movie-rentals/#comment-171963 <p>Apple will wipe the floor with XBox360, an expensive game machine that does not just fit on the stereo stack like the AppleTV. The AppleTV is cheap enough its in the impulse range, a "why not" purchase. Its very easy to use, and personally I even use it as a better DVD player- once you rip a DVD, you get instant on for the movies, with no menus if you dont want them. When the kid is crying and once his bed time video, its nice to get it going in 10 secs vs 2 minutes (dvd startup, menus, advertisements),</p> Apple will wipe the floor with XBox360, an expensive game machine that does not just fit on the stereo stack like the AppleTV. The AppleTV is cheap enough its in the impulse range, a “why not” purchase. Its very easy to use, and personally I even use it as a better DVD player- once you rip a DVD, you get instant on for the movies, with no menus if you dont want them. When the kid is crying and once his bed time video, its nice to get it going in 10 secs vs 2 minutes (dvd startup, menus, advertisements),

]]> By: Eideard http://gigaom.com/2007/06/10/apple-plots-a-dvd-player-for-the-broadband-era/#comment-171323 Eideard Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:19:43 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/06/10/apple-tv-movie-rentals/#comment-171323 <p>Content providers are so out of touch, you really have to wonder what it will take to get them into the 21st Century.</p> <p>Example from last night: we've been following the most recent This Old House project in Austin, TX. The finale was a hoot - and I wished my father-in-law hadn't headed back out with his 5th-wheeler, missing the show. So, I went looking for some means of downloading or recording or buying a DVD or anything. 1st place I looked was iTunes.</p> <p>Nothing, nada, nuttin' honey. Obviously N/A to Apple.</p> <p>We often watch series recorded on DirecTV's HR20 - or downloaded from iTunes and played back via Apple TV. Content providers still think the means of enjoying their wares is in a theater, watching live TV or - a year later - buying a DVD, sometimes.</p> <p>Video On Demand means the consumer is the one with the "demand", folks.</p> Content providers are so out of touch, you really have to wonder what it will take to get them into the 21st Century.

Example from last night: we’ve been following the most recent This Old House project in Austin, TX. The finale was a hoot - and I wished my father-in-law hadn’t headed back out with his 5th-wheeler, missing the show. So, I went looking for some means of downloading or recording or buying a DVD or anything. 1st place I looked was iTunes.

Nothing, nada, nuttin’ honey. Obviously N/A to Apple.

We often watch series recorded on DirecTV’s HR20 - or downloaded from iTunes and played back via Apple TV. Content providers still think the means of enjoying their wares is in a theater, watching live TV or - a year later - buying a DVD, sometimes.

Video On Demand means the consumer is the one with the “demand”, folks.

]]> By: Don http://gigaom.com/2007/06/10/apple-plots-a-dvd-player-for-the-broadband-era/#comment-171254 Don Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:41:05 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/06/10/apple-tv-movie-rentals/#comment-171254 <p>Watching a movie a second time ranks on a par with watching a movie over more than one viewing period. I prefer to watch a movie in its entirety - maybe a pause for a bathroom break. My movie rentals have been from a local store for a 3-to-5-day period, depending on how many movies are rented at a time. Watching a movie on a VERY small screen and/or over a period of interrupted time does not hold any attraction. How can so many people be sucked in by this type of rental arrangement? Is it ADHD?</p> Watching a movie a second time ranks on a par with watching a movie over more than one viewing period. I prefer to watch a movie in its entirety - maybe a pause for a bathroom break. My movie rentals have been from a local store for a 3-to-5-day period, depending on how many movies are rented at a time. Watching a movie on a VERY small screen and/or over a period of interrupted time does not hold any attraction. How can so many people be sucked in by this type of rental arrangement? Is it ADHD?

]]> By: Simon Leyland http://gigaom.com/2007/06/10/apple-plots-a-dvd-player-for-the-broadband-era/#comment-171211 Simon Leyland Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:11:55 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/06/10/apple-tv-movie-rentals/#comment-171211 <p>downloading and renting movies would be great especially when integrated into a service such as http://www.matchmine.com/. After using matchmine you understand how many movies you haven't seen. To buy the dvd is too cost prohibitve, i'd like to download for $3 and if I like buy the dvd.</p> downloading and renting movies would be great especially when integrated into a service such as (link) . After using matchmine you understand how many movies you haven’t seen. To buy the dvd is too cost prohibitve, i’d like to download for $3 and if I like buy the dvd.

]]> By: cykiller http://gigaom.com/2007/06/10/apple-plots-a-dvd-player-for-the-broadband-era/#comment-170303 cykiller Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:31:04 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/06/10/apple-tv-movie-rentals/#comment-170303 <p>Sounds like Apple is chasing the Xbox 360 Marketplace wave. MS must didn't make a big mistake with its rental program at all and the question should be is this the new media rights movement. Do we not care about owning the material and will we be stuck in this monetary structure of constant throughput from the internet rather than archive storing.</p> <p>Guess this all will be very interesting when we start talking about theater movies becoming available for the compatible device users at the same time.</p> Sounds like Apple is chasing the Xbox 360 Marketplace wave. MS must didn’t make a big mistake with its rental program at all and the question should be is this the new media rights movement. Do we not care about owning the material and will we be stuck in this monetary structure of constant throughput from the internet rather than archive storing.

Guess this all will be very interesting when we start talking about theater movies becoming available for the compatible device users at the same time.

]]> By: techkaki http://gigaom.com/2007/06/10/apple-plots-a-dvd-player-for-the-broadband-era/#comment-170293 techkaki Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:25:16 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/06/10/apple-tv-movie-rentals/#comment-170293 <p>I think it is better to integrate TIVO function as well. But with APPLE rolling out a series of electronic products that are targeting a more general user, APPLE is slowly evolving to become the next SONY.</p> <p>How about a combination of iPOD + APPLE TV + iPhone => the ultimate gadget of the century? Just a thought...</p> I think it is better to integrate TIVO function as well. But with APPLE rolling out a series of electronic products that are targeting a more general user, APPLE is slowly evolving to become the next SONY.

How about a combination of iPOD + APPLE TV + iPhone => the ultimate gadget of the century? Just a thought…

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