Comments on: Five Fixes for Apple’s iTunes Video Woes

By: How to Get an Indie Film on iTunes « NewTeeVee

How to Get an Indie Film on iTunes « NewTeeVee — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:00:49 +0000

[...] to Get an Indie Film on iTunes Selling indie movies on iTunes makes a ton of sense to us, but apparently not to the Powers that Be at Apple. It’s hard to even find information [...]

By: iTunes Movie & TV Run-Rates Down in ‘07 « NewTeeVee

iTunes Movie & TV Run-Rates Down in ‘07 « NewTeeVee — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:37:46 +0000

[...] to its music sales, which reportedly recently surpassed Wal-Mart. Last year we suggested “five fixes for Apple’s iTunes Video Woes“; of those, only rentals have been [...]

By: Adrian L. Davis

Adrian L. Davis — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:39:21 +0000

One thing Apple needs to take into account is that if the are only interested in selling music to promote selling hardware (whih I agree is the case) they are contributing to alot of the piracy that goes on by NOT having a larger catalog. I don’t steal music. I’ve spent THOUSANDS of dollars on my catalog because I don’t believe in it. BUT, when there is something semi-obscure I want that isn’t available, YES, I will LImeWire it or borrow it from a friend.

Apple would be smart to try harder to make the iTunes catalog more comprehensive, or allow some type of sharing for obscure things.

And by the way, there are certain movies we’d LOVE to BUY on iTunes. Alot of us would do it just for the COOL factor. Yes, I have Transformers on my iPod Touch or iPhone. But we can’t do that because they are only renting it..Trust me, people that buy movies on iTunes ALSO own the DVD, you won’t lose DVD sales by making it available for sale on iTunes.

By: Why Apple Needs Movie Rentals - GigaOM

Why Apple Needs Movie Rentals - GigaOM — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:19:44 +0000

[...] Five fixes for Apple’s video woes. [...]

By: Apple to Announce Movie Rentals at Macworld? « NewTeeVee

Apple to Announce Movie Rentals at Macworld? « NewTeeVee — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 01:46:56 +0000

[...] the way, we’ve urged Apple to cooperate with the movie studios and use rentals to rescue its iTunes video sale woes and its lagging Apple [...]

By: Neil Anderson

Neil Anderson — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 04:21:57 +0000

Apple’s DRMs are not proprietary — they’re open standards. H264 and AAC. Check it out.

By: pwb

pwb — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:58:58 +0000

Pay-per-view is mandatory for video. Most people watch most video one time.

By: Liz Gannes

Liz Gannes — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:47:43 +0000

I’m not sure what the solution will be on the DRM stuff, but it seems that the networks and studios are being a little more free with their content when it’s being distributed in Windows Media Player. I’m not a proponent of DRM at all but it does seem to be one way to get people to start letting out their content and seeing where things go.

By: TimB

TimB — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:02:34 +0000

Why does it come up repeatedly that “Apple is the proponent of DRM”? It only exists because the studios have insisted on it in their fight to maintain their 40 year old business models.

By: PXLated

PXLated — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:39:34 +0000

Brian has a good point…pushing all that data around so someone else can make the money is a non-starter. And I also agree that Apples DRM is way better than Windows, no reason to switch. They’ve got to have a reason to push video and it just isn’t there yet, neither is the bandwidth. Let the other waste their money. Apple wasn’t the first in music, they can afford to wait the others out a bit I think.