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W00T! I really hope this is true. Although I'm taking it for what it is: a rumor.

Bring it on.

1st

Darn you jimithy. About time. My 60gb that I bought 5 months ago is getting long in the tooth....

$14.99 is too much. $9.99 is too much.

Gil...don't you mean long in the bluetooth?

So is this just a rehas of the Business Week article or did this reporter do any original research beyond reading the BW clip?

The Movie store and new iPod are now a foregone conclusion.

The big question to me is, will Apple continue to use the click wheel or will they employ the new synaptics touch screen wheel to increase over all screen size without making the device larger?

Told you.

THIS IS GOOD NEWS FOR THE APPLE'S STOCK, I SHOULD MAKE ENOUGH TODAY.

x

hey! there is a sucker being born everyday.


Crazy anyone who would pay 14.00 for a reduced resolution movie

will there also be an updated Airport Express? In the absence of such a product, movie downloads strike me as having very limited appeal.

I suppose they could allow you to burn them to DVD, but is it really all that convenient to wait an hour for a movie download, then an hour for a DVD burn, in order to watch a movie on your home theatre set-up? Sure, you haven't had to leave the house, but this is a lot of time for a low quality version of what can be rented for $5 at the local store, or bought in full quality with all the extras and a case for $15-20 delivered to your door through Amazon, or for roughly $1.50 through Netflix.

I'm not their target market, but really who is? Business travellers? Who would pay $10-15 for a movie download?

I hope there is a rental or subscription solution for movie downloads as well.. I rarely watch a movie more than once.

the price is wrong

adjusted for deflation, $14.95 or $9.95 is way to expensive. 4.99 would have been reasonable at least for the current deflation rate.

How can Apple make a better solution than what is currently available?

How about iMovie kiosks at the Apple Stores. Bring your iPod Movie Player to the store and load up all the movies you want to watch. Bring them home and connect to your theater or computer. You can watch for a week once you start watching.

To watch again, connect to iTMS to pay for another rental. Rent the same movie x number of times and it is unlocked for unlimited viewing. Apple can ad all sorts of goodies with next gen. of Front Row.

Jeez.... that "how how" typo in this is driving me crazy.

Hmmmmm.

Even watching a standard DVD (already compressed enough to ruin graded colors like a sunset, or close-up of a beautiful face) is a drag. I prefer LD for color depth. But both really pale compard to raw standard video (from a non-HD camcorder).

It's an intractable problem so far unsolved by any CODEC.

Now, for a handheld device, if the file size algebra favors color depth and framerate, and chops resolution, it might be a workable equation....but that would be pathetic for a large screen.

Be interesting to see how they do the math.

Yeah downloads:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8lW8ndh5BU

How is this not just a regurgitation of <a >yesterday's article</a>?

I imagine BusinessWeek will milk this as much as possible, but must MDN send them the extra traffic?

Worse yet, this one is second hand.

You know Apple is getting big when mainstream media outlets hop onto the rumor mill.

Great great news news.

I guess I am still old school. I really don't want to own a huge library of movies. I want to pay a buck or two to watch on demand, but I don't want to buy a bunch of hardware and storage to hold terabytes of data that is already duplicated in countless other storage farms. Also, it is just too easy right now to obtain a DVD for movies you do want to own, and at reasonable prices. The current DVD is really quite efficient.

One thing I can say is that Apple typically Thinks Different and will probably give us a compelling solution that makes some sense.

Ugh. If iTMS doesn't offer a subscription-based service for movies, then forget it. I'll stick with netflix.

price seems a bit high but iPods seemed expensive when they first came out

the "on demand" aspect is the only thing appealing about this

Alan D said: "hey! there is a sucker being born everyday. Crazy anyone who would pay 14.00 for a reduced resolution movie."

Right on, Alan. Sort of like "what idiot would ever pay $399 or $499 for a device that plays MOVIES at reduced resolution."

Those freakin' morons in Cupertino are SOOOO, like... STUPID, man.

Will you be able to rip your old DVD movies to watch on your new iPod Video the way can with music CD's? Can you do that with the old iPod (Video) ?

The Other Steve: Piece of cake. Just use Handbrake.

http://handbrake.m0k.org/

$14.99 to watch a movie on a tiny screen? I don't think so.
I hope the iPods can play back the movies in full screen mode on a tv. This is the only way I think this service will work (unless there is a new movie playback device from Apple).

Mark

Has Apple been looking at my Flickr concepts again?

http://flickr.com/photos/32838779@N00/192828710

raster...

c'mon. You're being funny right?

That may have been easy on photoshop, but hard on anyone's lifestyle.

UGLY!!! no offense

John Gee