The Next Step? iMovie Store?
With Apple's new efforts with MPEG4 video, does anyone think that Apple might incorporate their iTunes Music Store technology for movies?
Of course, broadband would be required. I wonder though, how much would a 2-hour-long movie be in size encoded in MPEG4 at DVD quality? 100MB? 200MB? If it's under 300MB, it's reasonable for broadband.
For "previews", they'd use the same old trailers they've had on their site for years.
Of course, broadband would be required. I wonder though, how much would a 2-hour-long movie be in size encoded in MPEG4 at DVD quality? 100MB? 200MB? If it's under 300MB, it's reasonable for broadband.
For "previews", they'd use the same old trailers they've had on their site for years.
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1. Download MPEG4 high-quality movies using the iMovies Store
2. Preview trailers for thousands of movies
3. Unlimited personal burning using iDVD for play on your home DVD player
4. ??
5. Profit!
Of course, for DVD burning, you'd need to convert those MPEG4's into MPEG2 so that a normal DVD player could read them.
This step would need to be seemless and lossless. Apple would need faster processors so that it doesnt take an inordinate amount of time to encode and burn (PPC970?).
It's all coming together.
As cool as the previous 3-4 years have been (and they have), stuff like yesterday makes me - despite my recent thread here about "has the coolness peaked?" - VERY excited and even more happy and proud to be a Mac user.
I think that perhaps the "oh wow" eye-candy of the early fruit-colored, curvy and see-through iEra has certainly settled down a bit on the hardware end. The things from Apple that have excited me most in the past 6-9 months have been in the form of software and the OS itself.
I REALLY, REALLY like sitting down to my Jaguar-equipped iMac and working, playing, etc. It's a total pleasure and I honestly don't even think of it in terms of "using the computer"...how boring, lame and fuddy-duddy-sounding is that?. It's simply this thing with my entire life on it: music, art, information, the people I know, etc.
They do it right. And they do it cool.
Originally posted by Paul
we need an iApp to organize movies first
iFlicks!
Yet...
Originally posted by Existence
I think Quicktime and iDVD are adequate for oraganizing movies. It's not like people have hundreds or thousands of movies on their Mac.
Yet...
I think we will have to wait until hard drives get a little bigger, but I thought this same vision as soon as the iTunes Music Store was announced!
"we're going to need a bigger (bandwidth) boat"
300Mb per movie x 250,000 downloads per day =
(repeat users filling their library not included)
many a server will be overloaded, methinks.
vcdquality.com ships a boatload of bits now, and with little public profile
an iDMS would be insane and blockbuster would complain
Disney and others are pushing the self-destructing DVD
like they didn't learn from DiVX,
Movies on demand have had limited success in the past. I suspect AOLTW may give companies who attempt this problems. Intertainer.com was shut down a while back because of a legal suit with them. People buy music and listen to them while working on their computer, burn them to CD's, or copy them to mobile players. People don't watch movies on their computer monitors, so they either need a home theather computer, or a DVD burner, or a DVD player that can decode MPEG4 and use a CD burner.
2 hours to download + 30 mins to burn = not as convenient as buying a real dvd from the store down the street. So if it's poorer quality, has 0 bonus features and probably less convenient, it must be significantly cheaper.