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iTunes Music Store Sells Videos
bonch writes "With the recent release of iTunes 4.8 and its ability to manage and play videos, several users are discovering that iTunes is now selling videos through the online store. One example is the 'Feel Good Inc.' single used in the recent rollerskating iPod ad. The videos are provided in DRM-less .mp4 format encoded in 3ivx D4 4.5 and are available with purchase of the album."
can soon be rated with the number of available movies of Steven Seagal.
However this could be balanced out with some porn so.... Apple, be wise.
Hopefully the next release will incorporate a preview - a few seconds to help those of us who would otherwise have no idea what these videos may be.
They are music videos. You should know what they are already: a bunch of musicians prancing/grimacing/pouting while the camera quickly pans and zooms. Depending on the class of music, attractive people as eye candy is the norm. Some classes of music also include dark lighting and spooky imagery. In the overwhelming majority of cases, the video is designed to make the music seem better and more commercially appealing.
What about the video for All the Things She Said by t.A.T.u.
Two girls.
Good-looking.
In their late teens.
Dressed in short-skirted school uniforms.
Kissing.
Each other.
In the rain.
That, my friend is ART!
There might have been a song playing in the background, I don't really remember.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
It's only art if it's either in black and white or has subtitles... otherwise it's porn
Anyway, why would it need music with all of the other stimulants that it contains?