“Everyone seems to be expecting new music and iPod offerings at the Apple Special Event in Moscone Center on September 5. But what has gone more or less unnoticed is the fact that Akamai, Apple’s long-time Internet content partner, has announced that it is adding high-definition video to its Internet distribution offerings,” Carl Howe writes for Blackfriars’ Marketing.
MacDailyNews Note: See the press release: Akamai Brings High Definition To The Internet – August 27, 2007
Howe writes, “We’re expecting iTunes to add high-definition content as well as movie rentals next week.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Linux Guy And Mac Prodigal Son” for the heads up.]
Pass. It’ll never be cheaper than Netflix unless the have a similar subscription plan.
I love it when a plan comes together
@ dukemeiser
If they DO have a subscription plan, I’ll cancel my Netflix and purchase an Apple TV this week. Man, that would be fantastic.
Zorrin Meyer – the Voice of No Podcast At All
I’ll buy HD content but not the lower res stuff Apple currently offers. Well, I would buy more but only if it was HD.
@ Zorrin
Count me in as well. So long to Blockbuster Online!
Considering the difficulting in distributing TV shows in Canada, I certainly hope this announcement for movie rentals IS offered in Canada.
Please movie rentals
I buy my music, but do not like buying a movie, I may watch once or twice
This would complement a full screen iPod HD.
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I haven’t taken to downloading movies off of iTunes. TV shows yes, movies no.
These are the reasons:
1: Movies watched once usually, so renting is the way to go. Watch more for substantially less money. AKA: Netflix!!!
2: Downloads clogs the FSCK out of hard drives, vs TV shows which do only in large quantities. So I rather have my movies on a DVD, where it’s easily transportable between machines.
3: Movies on DVD in original quality with jacket has resale value. Burned lower quality DVD’s from iTunes does not. (unless they are crooks then they want it cheap because they know you can burn another copy)
4: Time. Time to download movies is longer, then it takes precious storage space on DVD’s which takes time to burn, label and store. I have a life and a girlfriend, if I wanted to live in my parents basement as a lifer virgin I would have gotten a POS Windows PC.
So renting rules for movies. Buying perhaps for TV shows. Buying definably for music. For me that is.
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Need Apple to continue making matte screens? Speak up here!! Tell them why you don’t prefer the glossy computers.
http://www.apple.com/getamac/feedback/
i read this on some other website that they will also bring ringtone feature to itunes
http://www.techztalk.com/techwebsite
GIVE ME 1080P OR GIVE ME DEATH APPLE!!!
dukemeister: “Pass. It’ll never be cheaper than Netflix unless the have a similar subscription plan.”
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In other words, it’ll never be cheaper than Netlifx unless it’s cheaper than Netflix.
September 5th is gonna be huge if all these rumored goodies actually appear. HD content, movie rentals, new iPods, WiFi iTunes downloads… Yum.
“GIVE ME 1080P OR GIVE ME DEATH APPLE!!!”, says Retarded_baboon
Well….someone is going to abandon the earthly living, I presume
Or perhaps this one is the “Year of the HD”. The True HD, I mean
Oh, and add the Beatles in iTS to the list, too.
I prefer glossy.
Thanks for the link!
I wrote Apple and told them I prefer glossy.
dukemeiser, keep that postman busy, someone has to do it.
why would they have released video dl in uk if they were about to swop to HD? makes no sense
Looks like Apple is about to throw their hat into the HD content war.
Eh. Nice offering I suppose, but I still prefer buying the physical media. I like the extras like director or actor commentary over the movie – watch the movie at home on big screen with surround sound, and watch it commentary while traveling on the laptop. Apple will announce new HW before Christmas – maybe not September 5, but no later than early November so layaway’s at BestBuy and Circuit City can occur. Give me the real iPod video that we’ve all been talking about!!
Director and actor commentary? What are there, 4 or 5 movies a year worth having all that crap?
I can understand wanting the classics on DVD but I don’t even keep the movies I download. I’d hate to have purchased “Captivity” for example.
The only way you’re getting folks like me to pay for this garbage is to provide cheap rentals and/or a nice subscription service. I don’t want or need to own the lackluster movies they’re producing today. I want to watch once for as cheap as humanly possible and then dump it off my computer and hopefully out of my head. Until I get that from Apple, it’s five fingers for me.
This is one rumor that makes perfect sense. it was a bit odd that you could make home movies with iMovie and post them as HD (or ‘better than DVD quality’), but the stuff you buy from iTunes is only SD.
In unrelated news, AppleTVs just doubled ther sales.
From everything (what little of it there is) that has been shown so far, the Sept 5 get together is clearly about music, so I wouldn’t be expecting anything other than a strictly music related annoucement.
New iPod(s) = Almost a 100% guarantee.
Beatles (or Sony & Cher
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HD content on iTunes = Unlikely
Rentals (of any kind) on iTunes = Outlook cloudy. Try again. (Like…when time stops)
Of course, this is Apple we’re talking about, so really, who knows?
“…Until I get that from Apple, it’s five fingers for me.”
So… you’re saying you steal?