Comments on: Five Fixes for Apple’s iTunes Video Woes

By: How to Get an Indie Film on iTunes « NewTeeVee

How to Get an Indie Film on iTunes « NewTeeVee — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:00:49 +0000

[...] to Get an Indie Film on iTunes Selling indie movies on iTunes makes a ton of sense to us, but apparently not to the Powers that Be at Apple. It’s hard to even find information [...]

By: iTunes Movie & TV Run-Rates Down in ‘07 « NewTeeVee

iTunes Movie & TV Run-Rates Down in ‘07 « NewTeeVee — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:37:46 +0000

[...] to its music sales, which reportedly recently surpassed Wal-Mart. Last year we suggested “five fixes for Apple’s iTunes Video Woes“; of those, only rentals have been [...]

By: Adrian L. Davis

Adrian L. Davis — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:39:21 +0000

One thing Apple needs to take into account is that if the are only interested in selling music to promote selling hardware (whih I agree is the case) they are contributing to alot of the piracy that goes on by NOT having a larger catalog. I don't steal music. I've spent THOUSANDS of dollars on my catalog because I don't believe in it. BUT, when there is something semi-obscure I want that isn't available, YES, I will LImeWire it or borrow it from a friend.

Apple would be smart to try harder to make the iTunes catalog more comprehensive, or allow some type of sharing for obscure things.

And by the way, there are certain movies we'd LOVE to BUY on iTunes. Alot of us would do it just for the COOL factor. Yes, I have Transformers on my iPod Touch or iPhone. But we can't do that because they are only renting it..Trust me, people that buy movies on iTunes ALSO own the DVD, you won't lose DVD sales by making it available for sale on iTunes.

By: Why Apple Needs Movie Rentals - GigaOM

Why Apple Needs Movie Rentals - GigaOM — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:19:44 +0000

[...] Five fixes for Apple’s video woes. [...]

By: Apple to Announce Movie Rentals at Macworld? « NewTeeVee

Apple to Announce Movie Rentals at Macworld? « NewTeeVee — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 02:46:56 +0000

[...] the way, we’ve urged Apple to cooperate with the movie studios and use rentals to rescue its iTunes video sale woes and its lagging Apple [...]

By: Neil Anderson

Neil Anderson — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 04:21:57 +0000

Apple’s DRMs are not proprietary — they’re open standards. H264 and AAC. Check it out.

By: pwb

pwb — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:58:58 +0000

Pay-per-view is mandatory for video. Most people watch most video one time.

By: Liz Gannes

Liz Gannes — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:47:43 +0000

I’m not sure what the solution will be on the DRM stuff, but it seems that the networks and studios are being a little more free with their content when it’s being distributed in Windows Media Player. I’m not a proponent of DRM at all but it does seem to be one way to get people to start letting out their content and seeing where things go.

By: TimB

TimB — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:02:34 +0000

Why does it come up repeatedly that “Apple is the proponent of DRM”? It only exists because the studios have insisted on it in their fight to maintain their 40 year old business models.

By: PXLated

PXLated — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:39:34 +0000

Brian has a good point…pushing all that data around so someone else can make the money is a non-starter. And I also agree that Apples DRM is way better than Windows, no reason to switch. They’ve got to have a reason to push video and it just isn’t there yet, neither is the bandwidth. Let the other waste their money. Apple wasn’t the first in music, they can afford to wait the others out a bit I think.

By: Five Fixes for Apple’s iTunes Video Woes « GigaOM

Five Fixes for Apple’s iTunes Video Woes « GigaOM — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:00:17 +0000

[...] and waiting for the networks and studios to come around to a better way of being. Here are five ways you should make your video catalog bigger and your service better, right now. Continue Reading at [...]

By: Brian Andrews

Brian Andrews — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:24:44 +0000

hmm...well, nice try but you have missed the major points of concern for Apple.

Apple never wanted to be, never set out to be, the #3 music retailer in the US. It happened and that's great, but Apple's goal with iTunes MS was to sell hardware, ie that little white thing everyone now owns.

The music store was a gateway to sell more iPods.

Apple views video consumption much differently than music consumption. Jobs really didn't want video on iPods but he finally gave it (kind of)...they have kept it slow because honestly, there just is not much money in pushing hundreds of gigabytes of someone else's data around.

Why would Apple care to build the biggest movie download service? How much money is there to be made here? Having Transformers available for download available isn't going to sell that many new iPods.

Apple does have a new piece of hardware that they can hope to push forward in Apple TV. It will be interesting to see where they take Apple TV and what growth we see there. They've been somewhat quick to cut the cord on things that don't work so time will tell.

As for "proprietary DRM"... Apple should use Windows DRM? Really? Apple supports open standards such as H.264 (the world is catching up) and AAC. Their Fairplay DRM is so well designed that most consumers never notice it, unlike MS's offerings. I don't think adding Windows DRM is a solution for anything.

Finally, for the indie producers. Well, we hope Apple continues to be slow on this front leaving the indie filmmakers and producers to us small fish like http://www.hungryflix.com. We are here to, on a much smaller scale, be an iTunes like solution for the low budget filmmakers out there. We've seen some great content come by and we are hoping that more will join us.

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:15:58 +0000

Some place like Film Baby/CD Baby would benefit so much if they gave their producers the option to also have their albums/films on iTunes.

Its a shame that Google's video store didn't take off...