Comments on: NES Makes Short-Lived Appearance on the App Store http://gigaom.com/2009/12/22/nes-makes-short-lived-appearance-on-the-app-store/ Wed, 22 May 2013 19:30:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: John http://gigaom.com/2009/12/22/nes-makes-short-lived-appearance-on-the-app-store/#comment-376628 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:33:39 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=37993#comment-376628 It is all about the content, as well as the medium. One of the continuing reasons Apple and my local cable and Sky TV providers miss out on my money is by not providing the content I want to watch at a reasonable price.
EG – Movies: District 9 just for an example.
At the Cinema: This cost me NZ$80 to go and see. Parking, fuel, 2 tickets and a babysitter.
On Blue-Ray – Now available NZ$44 from mightyape.co.nz – Rip with Ripit-HD
On DVD – 2 disk set with more extras, $NZ34.99 also from mightyape.co.nz Rip with Handbrake/VLC
I can rent it for $NZ8 from Civic Video if I want to go and pick it up or from Fatso.co.nz if I don’t
The DRM is already broken on these distribution methods so I can play it wherever I want.

Now from iTunes: NZ$24.99 for a digital DRM encrusted download of only the movie, no special features, that I can only watch on Apple approved devices, and just over 1GB of my data (I get 20GB/month or 2GB/day before my speed is crippled)

Priced like this physical media still wins.
Then TV – The reason I don’t get Sky or Telstra cable is the stupid package bundled. I dont care about sport and I get news from the web and have no need for Nickelodean. I only want Movies and some of the TV channels. Cant pick and choose 8( So I rent DVD’s and have them delivered instead.
They dont even have the show I want, when I want them.
My Wife watches Greys Anatomy, I watch Topgear and we both watch Dollhouse. None of these are available here on paid or free TV, (Topgear just aired was last seasons, and the current show airing is the Best-Of stuff)
So these arrive by torrent 9) I would pay if there was a local channel, but there just isnt, and it is only the ditributers and the broadcasters greed stopping it. It can already be done for free, so how come these distributors cant work out how to make money off it?
I wont be interested in Apples TV offering as it probably wont have any of the good content in the NZ region, will be focused on US TV only (and the kids TV at that)- no BBC most likely. So it will fail and they will say – “Internet TV didn’t work.”

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