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Posted by Derek Janssen on 03/18/06 02:23
Invid Fan wrote:
> 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]
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>>'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?"
>>---
>>
>>(and, scratch another studio pipe dream down the tubes)
>
> Unless it sells. They'll never know till they try, and
--well,.....they tried.
> They're buying the soundtrack on
> iTunes, so offering the movies makes sense. It's just a long music
> video :)
Yeah, but--if it were possible to use yellow highlighter on Usenet
posts--one might need to underline the bits about customers saying "Why
SHOULD we download something in crappy bit-form when it's on DVD for the
same price?" and "Geez, what a ripoff!"
....Which will no doubt be something of an obstacle to any future movie
that *ISN'T* a teen musical with a hit soundtrack.
Derek Janssen (and there are a few of them)
ejanss@comcast.net
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