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Why There's No iTunes For Movies

Posted by timothy on from the farhad-tells-all dept.

theodp writes "Slate's Farhad Manjoo would gladly pay a hefty monthly fee for immediate access to recent movies and TV shows — if someone would just take his money. In reality, he pays nothing because no company sells such a plan, and instead resorts to getting his programming from the friendly BitTorrent network.

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  1. Re:Actually, there is an iTunes for movies by Joce640k · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I boycott mov files because:

    a) They're proprietary and need special players to play.

    b) Said player is the worst media player in history.

    c) Said player also tries to take over my entire machine. It installs an iPod sync service even though I haven't got an iPod. It replaces all the multimedia mime types in all my browsers and refuses to let go - reconfiguring the browsers on every reboot (does Firefox really need itunes plugin to display a JPG file?)

    d) All that just to watch a video file? Seriously? No thanks.

    PS: Any digital camera makers who think .mov is a good video format, take note. Also any webmaster who thinks .mov is a good format for web page viewing because "it works on a Mac".

    PPS: Yes, I've heard of quicktimealt but I want the .mov format to die (see above).

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