iTunes movies at $10 per
p2p news / p2pnet: Steve Jobs has Macolytes and other iTunes users figured out.
Buoyed by the fact they willingly and repeatedly pay a dollar and up for limited selections of seriously over-priced Big Four Organized Music cartel music ‘product,’ he’s confident they’ll also pay through the nose for old movies.
"Apple has started selling the first full-length movie through its iTunes media store," says vnunet. "The Disney television movie High School Musical is offered at $9.99, after being briefly available for $1.99.
"The movie was a hit when first broadcast on the Disney Channel, attracting an audience of 7.7 million viewers. But iTunes users have complained about the movie’s relatively high price and limited resolution. While the download costs as much as a regular DVD, it offers only a limited resolution of 320 x 240 pixels and none of the bonus features typically found on a DVD."
Jobs recently sold his Pixar Animation Studios to Disney for $7.4 billion, in the process gaining a seat on the Disney board and access to Disney movies.
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recently sold – Disney buys Pixar for $7.4B, January 25, 2006
March 16th, 2006 at 2:31 pm
Lets see the Apple fanboys defend this one.
March 16th, 2006 at 3:09 pm
Renting DRMedMovies that are full screen for $2 seems like a bargin
The $10 offering from ITunes is still DRMed has a crappy resolution and you cant Burn it to a DVD .
March 16th, 2006 at 9:52 pm
i rather download it free thank you
March 17th, 2006 at 12:11 am
For $10 or less, you could:
A) find it on e-bay for that amount (or most certainly less)
B) buy it new, and rip it yourself
C) buy a nice hammer and hit yourself with it for buying a video ipod in the first place