There's no telling exactly how close we are to an
Apple iTunes movie store service, but it's become pretty clear
of late that we are due for one sooner or later. The greatest confirmation yet just came from the loose lips of Lionsgate's CEO, Jon Feltheimer, during a financial earnings conference call. He stated that the independent studio has reached digital delivery deals with
CinemaNow,
Movielink and iTunes, and Lionsgate president Steve Beeks followed that up by stating that iTunes movie downloads should be launched before the end of the year. Think Secret is also reporting that iTunes downloads will be rental only, but we're not sure where they're getting that info. Of course, Apple isn't the only company these days that can't seem to keep a lid on their movie download plans.
Amazon was recently subjected to a drive-by Google-caching (pictured), revealing similar confiscatory rates to what we're used to by now for downloaded video content, and potential TV show downloads.
Netflix is also hitting the rumor mill with reports of 1.5TB of server space being staked out at the high-end Isilon hosting service. Good times indeed for the download crowd, we just hope one of these providers can manage to drive the price down a bit.
[Thanks, CoreyTheGent]
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posted Aug 18th 2006 11:17AM
amazon (mentioned), walmart, aol, and others are all soon to follow with video purchase/download of tv shows... not too far away from launching
"Netflix is also hitting the rumor mill with reports of 1.5TB of server space being staked out at the high-end Isilon hosting service"
That is just one and a half drives according to Hitachi.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6105515.html
My hope is less about getting prices down and more about getting decent quality downloads... I've got an HTPC hooked up to a 42" widescreen HDTV... no way I'm paying for a sub-VHS quality download.
"Netflix is also hitting the rumor mill with reports of 1.5TB of server space being staked out at the high-end Isilon hosting service"
Yea I'm not sure what they can accomplish with 1.5TB of space.
I could help Netflix out with that. I've been burning DVDs to hard drive since I joined and just passed 1TB of movies myself.
I'm sticking to DVDs until I can DL full quality movies with extras. Plus I'd DL a movie from Al Qaida at 2X the price before giving money to Itune$.
More details about Amazon's video download service called Amazon Unbox, including screenshots and live links to the pages. It appears that you can rent and buy movies and TV shows, and also burn to DVD for archiving, but it will not be playable on a DVD player.
http://www.kokogiak.com/gedankengang/2006/08/amazons-digital-video-sneak-peek.html
seriously...1.5 TB of space? ive got that of netflix archives alone, at 1000kbps bitrate (hardly dvd). I think they need to be looking for a bit bigger storage solution.
Apple finally catches up with the PC
Vongo, CinemaNow, Movielink
Ever heard of them?
I have been downloading movies with these services for years (maybe not vongo)
Sorry Apple too late and who cares
More than likely they meant 1.5 Petabytes: http://www.google.com/search?q=1.5+petabytes+in+terabytes
Isilon isn't a hosting company - they sell InfniBand enabled clustered storage SAN thingys.
http://www.isilon.com/
Reeltime Rentals will be beta testing their service starting next week and launching in Sept. It will offer movies and tv shows. Their technogy and video quality is amazing. Everyone should check it out.
Welp, looks like it's time to look into upgrading the ol' broadband...
"Sorry Apple too late and who cares"
All lay-people with a video ipod.
yep apple is late
we do already have http://www.netflix.com and http://www.coplace.com