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cableties
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Re: who cares?

$9.99?? Make it $2 and I'd think about it.
Wait. No Thanks. I get Netflix and at the rate I watch films, it has to be "" $2 a movie.

OT-We still need an 80Gig Nano Vidipod to store all the movies they want you to buy and access quickly. Which reminds me, just how many people really watch movies more than once? (excluding babysitting excuses and the trekkie)

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$9.99?? Make it $2 and I'd think about it.
Wait. No Thanks. I get Netflix and at the rate I watch films, it has to be "" $2 a movie.
A rental in the $2 to $4 range is the max it should go. Between Netflix, Blockbuster, cable PPV, etc. offering these movies, anything higher than that from iTunes and the renters would be dummies for paying it.
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said by TKJunkMail See Profile :

A rental in the $2 to $4 range is the max it should go.
Agreed about the price. However, I still think it'll be a big success down the road. At first, I'm thinking iTunes/Apple will get slammed with criticism about it but still be a pioneer in that respect of bring movies to your desktop for a price (at least I know of know Mac-compatible sites for movie rentals/downloads at the current time though I'm sure there are Windows-based sites).

And people will rent the movies -- that's the thing. I agree they'd be dummies for doing it, but I have a hunch it'll be successful. Call me crazy
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said by xmrocks See Profile :

said by TKJunkMail See Profile :

A rental in the $2 to $4 range is the max it should go.
Agreed about the price. However, I still think it'll be a big success down the road. At first, I'm thinking iTunes/Apple will get slammed with criticism about it but still be a pioneer in that respect of bring movies to your desktop for a price (at least I know of know Mac-compatible sites for movie rentals/downloads at the current time though I'm sure there are Windows-based sites).

And people will rent the movies -- that's the thing. I agree they'd be dummies for doing it, but I have a hunch it'll be successful. Call me crazy
Ummm please, stop right here. Don't start another fake 'being-first' urban legend about Apple (like CD-ROM, DVD, gigabit, Firewire etc), please.

There are numerous online movie stores out there:

»www.movielink.com
»www.vongo.com
»www.cinemanow.com
»www.atomfilms.com - this one offers FREE downloads including Atomfilms Hi-Def

And of course, there are lots of free movies already available on Google Video, Veoh or other existing video sites.

xmrocks
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Maybe if you actually read my post, you would have read that I said I don't know of any other sites.

Thanks for the flame!
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said by xmrocks See Profile :

Maybe if you actually read my post, you would have read that I said I don't know of any other sites.

Thanks for the flame!
I'm sorry, it wasn't about flaming.
I just simply hate all of those false Apple-related urban legends and wnated to set the record straight.

mbnt

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There are numerous online movie stores out there:

»www.movielink.com
»www.vongo.com
»www.cinemanow.com
»www.atomfilms.com - this one offers FREE downloads including Atomfilms Hi-Def
What an ignorant answer, those sites don't even cater to Mac users with their Windows Media DRM garbage.
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said by mbnt See Profile :

There are numerous online movie stores out there:

»www.movielink.com
»www.vongo.com
»www.cinemanow.com
»www.atomfilms.com - this one offers FREE downloads including Atomfilms Hi-Def
What an ignorant answer, those sites don't even cater to Mac users with their Windows Media DRM garbage.
Umm look who's talking... the original statement was only about being first.

(BTW it'd be more than funny if somebody would proudly claim Apple did something first on OS X only. )

Besides that a single-digit market force like OS X doesn't really convince anybody to develop something specific for them - because the fact of the matter is Apple decided not to develop anything that would play WMV, only MS had put out some shitty-buggy beta for a while...

Talk about showing sheer ignorance...

PS: WMV and WMVHD or VC-1 is far superior to anything Apple was able to come up - same or better quality with lower hw requirements, you know...

mbnt

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Whatever.  Posting replied on here is like talkin' to brick walls.  Everyone's out to just flame each other.
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said by RadioDoc See Profile :

Not catering to 5% of the market? Big loss there...
I thought I read that Apple now held closer to 10% of the market now somewhere?

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said by TKJunkMail See Profile :

said by cableties See Profile :

$9.99?? Make it $2 and I'd think about it.
Wait. No Thanks. I get Netflix and at the rate I watch films, it has to be "" $2 a movie.
A rental in the $2 to $4 range is the max it should go. Between Netflix, Blockbuster, cable PPV, etc. offering these movies, anything higher than that from iTunes and the renters would be dummies for paying it.
Exactly. Even $4 is ridiculously high compared to PPV which you can record.
yabos

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9.99 to OWN is what he's talking about. Renting would obviously be cheaper cause who would pay 10 bucks to rent a downloaded movie. I'd say the success will be based on the quality of the movies. If they're the iPod resolution of 320x240 then I can't see a lot of people buying them. TV shows can get away with this quality because they're usually not "action" like a lot of movies are. You want a large screen for a movie but not necessarily a TV show.
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