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Apple TV+, With Shows From Spielberg, Oprah and J.J. Abrams, is Coming This Fall (cnet.com)
Alongside its new news and payment services, Apple today also unveiled Apple TV+, a place for its new slate of original shows. The new service, billed as a place for the "highest-quality storytelling," will be available in over 100 countries and released starting this fall through the Apple TV app. From a report: It will be ad-free, on-demand and available both streaming online and downloadable. Pricing will be announced this fall. Apple TV Plus is the company's way of jumping into the streaming video game, where Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu and others have already established themselves and brought in millions of cord-cutter customers fleeing cable subscriptions. The new service also works as a way for Apple to grow its thriving services business, helping it continue to grow despite lagging iPhone sales.
The company in 2017 hired Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg from Sony Pictures Television to oversee "all aspects of video programming." The two were responsible for shows such as Breaking Bad, The Crown and Rescue Me. And in the past year, Apple has continually announced original content it's producing -- including a multiyear partnership deal with Oprah and deals with Reese Witherspoon, J.J. Abrams and dozens of others. The company has reportedly gone well past its original $1 billion budget to bring in this list of movie and television A-listers, who are slated to create about 30 shows and a handful of movies.
The company in 2017 hired Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg from Sony Pictures Television to oversee "all aspects of video programming." The two were responsible for shows such as Breaking Bad, The Crown and Rescue Me. And in the past year, Apple has continually announced original content it's producing -- including a multiyear partnership deal with Oprah and deals with Reese Witherspoon, J.J. Abrams and dozens of others. The company has reportedly gone well past its original $1 billion budget to bring in this list of movie and television A-listers, who are slated to create about 30 shows and a handful of movies.
Because I don't see it going anywhere if it does. I can put Netflix, Amazon Video, Hulu, and a dozen other paid and free streaming services on my Roku, and my understanding is that the Amazon stick and the Chromecast are mostly similar.
I'm not buying another box just to add one channel, especially not one that costs 3X the cost of my premium Roku (with non-premium Rokus costing more like a fifth of the price.)
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Will it be locked to Apple hardware?
The missing part of the summary is that the Apple "TV" app (distinguished from the Apple TV hardware), is going to be going into a bunch of smart TV's, but also Roku and Amazon TV hardware.
So you'll be able to see this content on pretty much anything (also iOS).
Only thing I'm not sure of, as if there will be an Android app... I would say, probably.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
If it forces you to have Apple hardware/software then include me out.
There's one more big one to come (Apple Arcade), Slashdot seems to be spreading out the stories a bit so as not to flood the feed all at once. Apple had a busy morning, for announcing things you cannot get anytime soon...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Guess Steve's not /quite/ as anti-streaming as he let on, if the price is right?
(yeah, I know, it was about feature films, but still)
You took the words right out of my mouth.
TV and movies are boring. Uninteresting. Formulaic. Predictable. Remakes of Sequels of ancient TV shows. Seriously has Hollywood run out of creativity?
To make matters worse, you don't even get a complete movie for the higher ticket prices. It's like a movie now is really just a commercial for its sequel. Sad.
Protip: a movie should have a beginning, a middle, and a satisfying ending. Even if the ending is unrealistic, it should leave people happy and satisfied. People WANT to be entertained. Clue: it is an escape from reality. If the movie is going to have an unhappy depressing ending -- people can stay home and get that in real life. If you movie is good AND can have a sequel, then great. But that movie MUST stand on its own.
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
You took the words right out of my mouth.
I see what you did there
All programs will also be in mono, black and white and only in French language because, you know, as they say in France, le courage.
L'Idiot
TV and movies are boring. Uninteresting. Formulaic. Predictable. (...) Protip: a movie should have a beginning, a middle, and a satisfying ending. Even if the ending is unrealistic, it should leave people happy and satisfied.
The irony here is so thick I could cut it with a knife. What you describe sounds like the dullest "and they all lived happily ever after" Disney movie for kids. Some of the best movies I know totally throw the formula out the window like Memento, throw total curve balls where you think you know what's going on but doesn't like The Sixth Sense or have semi-dark endings like Man On Fire where it's obvious not everyone is walking out of there.
If I want a popcorn flick where the superhero saves the day I can go watch that, but it's never exciting whether Wonder Woman or Aquaman or Spiderman or Iron Man or the Hulk or whatever pulls through - leads don't die if it's rated PG-13 or less. I'd rather watch GoT where nobody's safe and everyone from the evilest shit to the kindest, most innocent character can end up dead any moment. The only thing I'm sure of is that there will always be a Stark in Winterfell.
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
with both Netflix and Amazon hammering out new shows at a prodigious rate.
I'd be happier if Apple would focus on existing stuff (eg all from 1966). New Netflix shows proliferate at a prodigious rate. But a lot of them are just based on copy-paste recipes aimed for lasting as long as possible. After only 3 episodes, you know the pattern.
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...