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Posted by Alpha on 09/11/06 08:50
"Derek Janssen" <ejanss@nospam.comcast.net> wrote in message
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> M.B. wrote:
>>
>> It wasn't actually announced. It was quietly released and announced on
>> their web site. The big announcements are supposed to be coming Tuesday.
>> But the rumor mill for that is most likely movie downloads and MAYBE a
>> new iPod.
>
> Just to throw out a few absolute guesses [-GUESSES-]:
>
> iPod Video is just starting to become the default technology for studios
> to push their TV-rerun download product (yes, even Warner's given in), but
> that's essentially become king of the frog pond--
> It hasn't really become the "replacement for DVD" yet that clueless
> analysts thought it would.
>
> So far, Steve's big push to make the iPV (which he didn't really want to
> make in the first place) a new default technology has been to ask studios
> to include "iPod-ready" .MP4 versions of their movies as an extra on the
> commercial disks and HD's...Which would make the iPod the new
> universal/affordable replacement for the UMD and Mini-DVD disasters, the
> pricey portables, and the bulky laptops which may become too difficult for
> plane trips.
>
> Up till now, the Big Studios have been too busy fighting their HD-Blu
> battle with each other to listen to him, and the only one company who's
> taken him up on it so far was one of the mom-and-pop Public-Domain
> vultures who leap at anything.
> But I'll blue-sky a guess that we'll hear from one aggressively-marketing
> studio that's "decided" to experiment with the idea on a few upcoming
> disks...And by strange coincidence, will it just happen to be the studio
> Steve owns? :)
> (And the one that pretended they hadn't gotten bad customer reviews on
> "High School Musical", when customers who were already planning to buy the
> disk anyway didn't want to pay extra for a crappy 320 download?)
>
> Derek Janssen (I'm makin' this up, but who's in for a fiver?)
> ejanss@comcast.net
Amazon has already made your analysis questionable.
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