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Study Says No Future for Video iTunes

Posted by samzenpus on from the video-wants-to-be-free dept.

eldavojohn writes "Reuters is running a story on a study that claims "Online video sites that sell shows and movies such as Apple Inc.'s iTunes will likely peak this year as more programming is made available on free outlets supported by advertising." Many channels have wised up to offering their content hosted from their own sites for free — with commercials — to cut out iTunes as the middle man. End result? Predictions that services like iTunes-Video have no future."

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  1. There is no future for ANY physical media by denis-The-menace · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We have the internet, memory cards, etc.

    Any physical format like DVD or CD is laden with DRM and makes it harder to cover to a portable format (MPG,AVI,MP3,ogg,etc.)

    TV is dying due to the 20+ minutes of commercials per hour.
    And these are the same 4 commercials repeated throughout the same hour.
    Even good commercials are repeated to a point where they become annoying like the worst commercials.

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  2. Re:Shows with commercials are not "free" by earnest+murderer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Dare I say it? Anti-commercial Nazis?

    Indeed, every time you skip a commercial you endorse eugenics, human experimentation, work camps, and anti-semitism. Oh and that whole second world war thing.

    What is wrong with paying for a show without commercials? Everyone knows where to go find new movie trailers. But damn, you were at least informative and had an honest respectable opinion before you concluded that people who don't like commercials are extremist and comparable to the perpatrators of a real human tragedy.

    What is that supposed to mean exactly? Every time you ignore/skip/pay for commercial free content someone takes a "shower"?

    Just a couple extra minutes of thought and you could have had a better persuasive argument and your credibility.

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  3. nice sig by drerwk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You win my favorite sig of the week.

    1. Re:nice sig by NatasRevol · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Thank you, but it's not original. I stole it from someone on /. years ago.

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    2. Re:nice sig by drerwk · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Ok, you're not AC so I'll bite. Number one, OSX really does just work for me. I like Linux, I like CentOS for my servers, but I've spent far too much time trying for instance to get my old yet beautiful SGI-1600SW LCD monitors to work; no joy. Number two, I have no trouble supporting family members who use a mac, even a laptop even with wireless. Number three, can I plug my Mini-DV camera into my firewire port and get the video downloaded, edited and burned on a linux laptop? Full disclosure, there was an issue with a recent System Update that borked Quicktime for my camera and I had to download the Quicktime installer and re-stall. Four, I can look at most of Darwin, I can rebuild the kernel (again I think) - but I don't have too. Honestly the best thing about Linux for me is that there is much more software that now works nicely on my mac! Lastly and this is an earnest question - is there a C++ dev environment that compares favorably to Xcode. The best I've seen so far is CDT in Eclipse, and as much as it pains my to say it, neither work better than VisualStudio for native platform development. Even later - you can compare our IDs, I've been here awhile.