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Apple Sells 1 Million Videos in Under 20 Days
olddotter writes "Apple has sold over 1 million videos through iTunes since the release of the Video iPod service. Personally I am surprised by this success, it raises many questions. Will this encourage more people to put their video content on the iTunes store? Is there a vast market for cheaper stuff at reduced prices? Why am I willing to pay more for music than I would for video?"
To clarify, music videos include a seperate AAC file with just the song, as well as the video. Perhaps Apple's "Watch your music" campaign motivated some people? --Sam
somebody posted this last week about making old 50s shows available for cheap. Sounds promising to me as a way of preserving the early days of TV. Heck, I'd pay a buck for old Zachary creature features.
I guess pretty much for the same reason that you are willing to pay more for a movie sound track CD than for the DVD of the movie itself. The RIAA has kept the prices artifically high and you go along with it.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
>it has become a $300 million-a-year business
Go higher, and try between $1 and $3.3 Billion - worldwide.
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Yes they do.
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My wife is a musician who self-produces her albums. She's now making more money through a handful of songs on Itunes than by selling her CDs. This great outlet is now (or should soon be) available to independant video producers. Watch out for the next Nick Park on iTMS.
I was on vacation in Europe this summer, and the people we were staying with had MTV on the television, and I am serious - maybe 80-90% of the ads were from a couple of different companies hawking mind bogglingly irritating ringtones. It was completely unbelievable. And it was always the SAME ONES over and over. Yikes.
Considering how much I DIDN'T want to buy any of them, the only conclusion I could come to was that I must be getting old.
Oh, and by the way, if you're in the US, like me, this is going to be how our TV is pretty soon too, since we're trying to play catch-up with just about every other country in the world in cell phone technology right now. Just you wait.
I've been running (somehow) Front Row on my pre iSight iMac G5 and Powerbook and it plays everything that Quicktime plays. Which in my case means DIVX, XVID, MPEG's etc. Even JPEG's and GIF's are displayed.
The glass is half-full. With poison. And there are cracks in the glass. The dirty, dirty glass.
The Australian iTunes "Videos" section is a joke, it is a few music film clips and some old Pixar shorts, no TV Eps at all, and a severely cut back amount of other videos.
for not capitilizating their assets. Open (the latest version of) Winamp. Open Open Media Library, click on "Winamp Video". You see 10000+ VCR quality music videos (1750 artists, top names). The same thing that APPLE is sucessfully selling at $2 a pop, AOL/TW has been giving away on Winamp for 5 years, except that Apple has a fraction of the # of videos.
If AOL/TW bothered to figure out how to make money, they would (at least) team with Apple to SELL this content (currently, they're only making a token effort to make money by showing an ad before playing videos..which is annoying and ineffective). If they were very wise, they'd turn around an Itunes like client and partner with Microsoft, Sony and other Apple competitors and CRUSH them.
I can't stand stupidity.
[rant done]
Sure, it doesn't have the storage space than an ipod does, but it costs half as much than an ipod, and the screen is *much* larger (4.3" 16:9 widescreen).
Half as much? The 30GB video iPod is $300, and the PSP is $250. How is that half?
The 60GB video iPod is $400. PSP is still $250. Again, not half.
Add a 1GB card for the PSP for approximately $100, and the PSP is more expensive than the 30 GB iPod and has 1/30 of the storage capacity. All of that for a bigger screen? Oh but you can buy the UMDs for $20 - 40. That's cost-effective.
I have a PSP, but I have it for games (which aren't much to talk about either, but I may get the GTA soon).
Well, OK then...
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- Music Video - Michael Jackson - Thriller
- TV Show -
...And Found - Lost
- Movie - For the Birds - Pixar
- Music Video - Fatboy Slim - Weapon of Choice
- TV Show - Man of Science, Man of Faith (Premiere) - Lost
- TV Show - They Asked Me Why I Believe in You - Desparate Housewives
- Music Video - Kanye West - Gold Digger
- Movie - Boundin' - Pixar
- Movie - Geri's Game - Pixar
- TV Show - Orientation - Lost
- TV Show - Everybody Hates Hugo - Lost
- TV Show - Adrift - Lost
- Music Video - Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz
- TV Show - Malum - Night Stalker
- Music Video - La Tortura - Shakira & Alejandro Sanz
For those really interested, you can see the Top 100 Videos (requires iTunes).This sig donated to Pater. Long live