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Apple to Offer MGM Movies

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the roaring-on-the-mac dept.

UnknowingFool writes "Apple announced today that it will be adding MGM movies to its movie catalog. With Apple already selling Disney and Paramount movies, how long will it be before the other studios work out a deal with Apple?"

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  1. Follow or die by BrowserCapsGuy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It seems to me the other studios will eventually have no choice but to accept this new method of distribution. Man that sounds dumb. But it's true. Good for Apple for forcing a change that I think most honest, paying customers have been demanding.

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  2. say no to blogs by timmarhy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    am i the only person that's grateful to the poster for NOT linking to a stupid apple fan boy blog?

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  3. no hd? by timmarhy · · Score: 5, Insightful
    one thing i'd like to point out - these movies aren't even dvd quality. not sure what the point of that is? seriously if people ripping captures from hd tv can manage dvd quality, you'd think apple with all it's resources could do better.

    oh and wake up and smell the codecs - h264 can do dvd quality at 200megs per hour, you can't tell me peopel with adsl wouldn't be able to download that.

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    1. Re:no hd? by timmarhy · · Score: 5, Interesting

      with a decent codec like h264, a 720p movie only comes out at 750megs or so. whats so hard about that?

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    2. Re:no hd? by BiggerIsBetter · · Score: 5, Insightful

      When the majority of people seem perfectly happy with YouTube quality, why invest in more bandwidth/storage/quality?
      Because YouTube is free, and Apple wants use to pay. Because DVDs are cheap to rent. And because the pirated copies we can download are generally top quality rips. If I'm paying for movies from Apple, I want something of competitive quality that gives me a reason to spend my dollars (including bandwidth costs, which are significant in some markets).

      Besides, Apple wants to sell these movies to play on their users' iPods, whose screens dont't even have NTSC resolution.
      Then they're missing an enormous chunk of their market.

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  4. only USA by Riquez · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's good to see the Video content of iTunes progressing, obviously a must for Apple TV's success. Still, I have to say, it's only in the USA.
    The rest of the world are still have no Movie/TV content whatsoever (other than Music Vids & Pixar short films). Effectively making Apple TV a USA only device.

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