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Six months later iTV is a flat-out iFlop. Renamed Apple TV upon launch, the ballyhooed box has sold perhaps 250,000 units--far behind the 1 million sold for the iPhone, which was priced twice as high and has been on the market less than half as long. Appl
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No one has all the elements in place yet: big audience, vast selection, intuitive design, and a simple way to transfer movies onto portable devices and the living room television.But here’s my ranking of the five players that are “most likely to succe
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The arrangement starts today; more than 150 titles, including Dirty Dancing, will go up this month. That brings iTunes’ movie library past 400—still a far cry from the numbers available on some other sites, including newly launched Wal-Mart download b
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The third alternative is to abolish DRMs entirely. Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell music which
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Viacom will be brave enough to join Disney on the iTunes store, selling movies from its studio Paramount. But in an effort to not ruffle Wal-Mart and Target’s feathers, the deal will only cover Paramount’s back catalog, including titles such as “For
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Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes music sales rose 84 percent in the first nine months of 2006 from a year earlier, according to a report from ComScore Networks Inc. The number of transactions rose 67 percent and dollars spent per transaction increased 10 perc
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Nearly 500,000 movies have been sold since Disney became the first movie provider on iTunes. (Iger said earlier that more than 125,000 were sold in the first few days.) About 12 million ABC shows have been sold on iTunes since the launch in October 2005 o
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Google is still only allowing major content owners -- those with 1,000 hours or more of video -- to charge for their content. Apple repeatedly is making it nearly impossible for independent media-makers to upload content to its iTMS and charge for it
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Matching content from producers to micro-audiences that are interested in that content is one of the central problems Brightcove is trying to solve with our syndication marketplace. Brightcove erklärt.
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The Walt Disney Co. has sold 125,000 digital copies of films through Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes store in less than a week, generating $1 million, Disney expects revenue of $50 million in the first year from its iTunes partnership
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But my urging has been based on the idea that consumers would likely be willing to view advertising in exchange for discounted or free content. It seems such fertile ground. I'm surprised there haven't been more tests on the model.
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Restrictions on use should drive a cheaper price to the consumer, not the same or higher pricing. Die Downloadangebote haben kein vertrauen in ihre Portale und garantieren den Rechteinhabern keine Abnahme.
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A queue of digital content recommended (or produced) by friends of family members might always be available for viewing. ``I'd like to be able to flick through videos sent by people I know, whether they're sports highlights, financial news clips, or video
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The studios continue to show an amazing proficiency for finding reasons not to sell or rent digital downloads in ways that customers might value, all for the sake of protecting their existing retail channels.
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More than 45 million TV shows have been downloaded on iTunes since the launch last October
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Prinzipiell keine Konkurrenz für Cabel Unternehmen. Aber das Interface ist wichtig und die Integration. Verlieren werden die Retailer. TV Shows werden über den Store gut laufen. Bandbreite ist zu gering.
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Wenn Google und Apple zusammenarbeiten bekommen eine Menge Leute Kopfschmerzen. 1. Microsoft wg. Musiksuche geht zu Apple -> Apple pusht Google Video und beide Kooperieren bei den Downloads
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Guba macht billig Angebote $10 für neue Filme, $5 Katalog und $0,5 Fernsehserien. Mit Amazon wird der Markt noch weiter Aufgewühlt. Außerderm werden wohl vor allem die guten Aussichten für diesen Markt weitere Player anziehen.
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Filme werden noch für die nächsten fünf Jahre Hauptsächlich über DVDs abgespielt werden. Der portable Markt ist sehr begrenzt (iPod) und Apple erwartet eine menge Konkurrenz von VOD (Comcas), DVD, Netflix, Cinemanox und Movielink
