Posted by Spud Demon on 11/01/05 23:41

Gregory Weston <uce@splook.com> writes in article <uce-8768C7.20373131102005@comcast.dca.giganews.com> dated Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:37:31 -0500:
>In article <1130788099.930039.297400@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
> "FunkyDevil" <qs8rzr001@sneakemail.com> wrote:
>
>> It's about Itunes video sales.
>>
>> Apparently people are paying for stuff that you actually get for free ,
>> and I'm not talking about P2P, I am talking about literally free ,
>> "TV shows, short films and music videos"
>
>But those aren't free. Someone pays for the TV shows and videos and,
>ultimately, it's the viewer. The shorts have previously only been
>available on paid-for prerecorded media. What you get for your $2 from
>the iTunes store is no commercial interruptions (which for the TV shows
>shaves over 25% of the run-time off) and all the time-shifting you like
>along with fairly easy space shifting.

Tivo ain't free, I can attest to that. My sub is $47/month.

Recently I took a partly-failing Tivo in for an exchange. But before I did
it I had to be sure I had transferred everything I wanted to keep to DVD.
It was a lot of work! For each 2 hours of source video it took:

2 hours to transfer to camcorder
2 hours to import into iMovie (some devices can combine these first 2 steps)
1 hour to edit out commercials
12 hours (overnight) to render to a DVD image on a 866 MHz G-4

If the quality and portability of the iTunes videos is close to that of DVD,
I could have paid $50 and saved myself a lot of work!

Can you burn personal-use DVDs from iTunes videos?

-- spud_demon -at- thundermaker.net
The above may not (yet) represent the opinions of my employer.

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