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Posted by Bernie Woodham on 03/18/06 05:31
"Invid Fan" <invid@localnet.com> wrote in message
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> 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?"
>> ---
>>
>> 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 :)
>
And how much does it really cost anyone to offer it?
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