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Posted by Invid Fan on 03/18/06 02:03
In article <GrCdnUmuwauccIfZ4p2dnA@comcast.com>, Derek Janssen
<ejanss@nospam.comcast.net> wrote:
> "Someday, we'll all download movies on our iPod", right?--
> Well, er....
>
> [IMDb, 3/16]
> ---
> 'High School Musical': The Controversy
> An announcement by Apple Computer that it will make the Disney movie
> High School Musical available for downloading from its iTunes Music
> Store for $9.99 has generated angry reaction from several users of the
> site. In the online store's user-review section, writers observed that
> the price for the download was roughly the same as the price for a
> similar DVD. "Talk about a rip-off," one user wrote. "... You're
> basically paying for a DVD without getting the DVD extras or quality."
> Another blogger on the Endgadget.com site commented that "this seems
> like another pricing experiment from Apple" and complained that users
> would by "paying $9.99 for a low-res copy of a movie of the week that
> will probably show up in Blockbuster's remainder bin in a month." Yet
> another blogger asked, "Is this some kind of sick joke?"
> ---
>
> Derek Janssen (and, scratch another studio pipe dream down the tubes)
Unless it sells. They'll never know till they try, and apparently this
musical is big among young teens. They're buying the soundtrack on
iTunes, so offering the movies makes sense. It's just a long music
video :)
--
Chris Mack "Refugee, total shit. That's how I've always seen us.
'Invid Fan' Not a help, you'll admit, to agreement between us."
-'Deal/No Deal', CHESS
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