Both DVD-Audio and SACD are bombs. Sure iTune downloads account for fewer sales than a CD, however iTune album sales a killing both DVD-Audio and SACD. Yes, the quality is of the music is lower in an AAC file, but that could be changed by the provider (all Apple has to do is provide better compression), would I have to buy a new player, no my iPod and iTunes will support this with a software fix. The thing is the consumer market has spoken and they prefer the convenience of digital music.
Now let's shift to video. The quality of a movie from iTune is not that bad, it's not DVD quality, but could be.
So lets think out of the box for a minute. How many people subscribe to a service like Netflix? I know quite a few people, so what if someone (are you listening Apple) offer a service similar to Netflix for movies, but instead of receiving them in the mail in a couple of days, you receive it over night via a download. The customer could actually pick when they want the download to happen, maybe at night, maybe during the day, whenever their traffic would be low.
I have over 100 DVDs and about 5000 CDs and I really don't have the room for them anymore, so digital storage would be great. I also do not like the idea of going out and buying yet another piece of hardware or updating movies to the latest format, but imagine if in the future for small fee and proof of purchase I was able to update all of my 1089i content to the next best thing the same way I update software.
Of course Hollywood won't like this, but how many times can they expect us to buy the same movie (or worst a recut version with new commentary from the janitor who swept the floors during production!).
Success does not equal monopoly. I know many, many "homebrew folks" who became millionaires when big bad Microsoft bought them up. And check this out, many of them stayed on by their own choice. Please don't think I'm a Microsoft fanboy, because I'm not (fyi: I'm typing this on a Mac Pro and encourage people not to use Bootcamp), however for the EU to blackmail them they way they are is criminal. Do I agree with Microsoft, no. But it was the computer companies that signed the OEM contracts with them, is it their fault, that they didn't have the foresight to think a head. Also Microsoft has attempted to comply with the EU, but it wasn't enough.
Quick question, who are the "homebrew folks"? Adobe, Netscape (they did themselves in through pure greed), Firefox, Lotus (IBM merged them away), Real Networks (their product sucks and they're greedy), Apple (iTunes is one of the top players out their and let's not forget Quicktime), Corel (greed, again).
I agree. I just hope that the EU goes after Nintendo and Sony next. I think it's so unfair that I'm forced to buy their game systems in order to play their games. I should be able to play them on my Mac!
Sounds stupid, so does your argument!
Why can't someone in the Linux community create an application similar to Visual Studio? Basically because they would starve.
Your gas analogy is flawed. If you compared Windows to a type of fuel, let's say regular gas, then Linux would be diesal and OS X would be E85.
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Both DVD-Audio and SACD are bombs. Sure iTune downloads account for fewer sales than a CD, however iTune album sales a killing both DVD-Audio and SACD. Yes, the quality is of the music is lower in an AAC file, but that could be changed by the provider (all Apple has to do is provide better compression), would I have to buy a new player, no my iPod and iTunes will support this with a software fix. The thing is the consumer market has spoken and they prefer the convenience of digital music.
Now let's shift to video. The quality of a movie from iTune is not that bad, it's not DVD quality, but could be.
So lets think out of the box for a minute. How many people subscribe to a service like Netflix? I know quite a few people, so what if someone (are you listening Apple) offer a service similar to Netflix for movies, but instead of receiving them in the mail in a couple of days, you receive it over night via a download. The customer could actually pick when they want the download to happen, maybe at night, maybe during the day, whenever their traffic would be low.
I have over 100 DVDs and about 5000 CDs and I really don't have the room for them anymore, so digital storage would be great. I also do not like the idea of going out and buying yet another piece of hardware or updating movies to the latest format, but imagine if in the future for small fee and proof of purchase I was able to update all of my 1089i content to the next best thing the same way I update software.
Of course Hollywood won't like this, but how many times can they expect us to buy the same movie (or worst a recut version with new commentary from the janitor who swept the floors during production!).
Success does not equal monopoly. I know many, many "homebrew folks" who became millionaires when big bad Microsoft bought them up. And check this out, many of them stayed on by their own choice. Please don't think I'm a Microsoft fanboy, because I'm not (fyi: I'm typing this on a Mac Pro and encourage people not to use Bootcamp), however for the EU to blackmail them they way they are is criminal. Do I agree with Microsoft, no. But it was the computer companies that signed the OEM contracts with them, is it their fault, that they didn't have the foresight to think a head. Also Microsoft has attempted to comply with the EU, but it wasn't enough.
Quick question, who are the "homebrew folks"? Adobe, Netscape (they did themselves in through pure greed), Firefox, Lotus (IBM merged them away), Real Networks (their product sucks and they're greedy), Apple (iTunes is one of the top players out their and let's not forget Quicktime), Corel (greed, again).
I agree. I just hope that the EU goes after Nintendo and Sony next. I think it's so unfair that I'm forced to buy their game systems in order to play their games. I should be able to play them on my Mac! Sounds stupid, so does your argument! Why can't someone in the Linux community create an application similar to Visual Studio? Basically because they would starve. Your gas analogy is flawed. If you compared Windows to a type of fuel, let's say regular gas, then Linux would be diesal and OS X would be E85.