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   #20. Posted at 07:30 AM on May 17th 2007 Edit   Reply
Vrock
To me, the words "online video" conjure up visions of low resolution, over-compressed, and jerky crap. The companies offering these downloads need to do something to address that image before I'll cough up the dough.
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   #19. Posted at 03:48 PM on May 15th 2007 Edit   Reply
Reldey
This reminds me of when people thought regular T.V. would never take off in the 1920's.
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   #18. Posted at 10:10 AM on May 15th 2007 Edit   Reply
Corrado
I hate the fact that theres ONE show on some pay channels I want to watch. I want to see This American Life on Showtime and Entourage on HBO. I'm not gonna subscribe to the whole channel for ONE show. I wish TAL was available on iTunes.
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   #5. Posted at 01:29 PM on May 14th 2007 Edit   Reply
derFunkenstein
Personally, the inability to burn a movie I buy from the iTunes store to a DVD is what kills it for me. If I could burn it (even just once) I'd be happier with my purchase.
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#5, You dont need to burn it if you have an AppleTV unit :P  :  Corrado  (#6)  «
#6, I don't need $300 unit if I can just burn it to DVD. :p o...  :  derFunkenstein  (#8)  «
#5, Well, if you really just want to "store it" on a DVD, you ca...  :  blastdoor  (#9)  «
#9, yeah, see, that's not really what I want to do (store on ...  :  derFunkenstein  (#15)  «
#15, That is certainly an understandable desire. I'm sure t...  :  blastdoor  (#17)  «

   #1. Posted at 12:30 PM on May 14th 2007, Edited at 08:08 PM on May 14th 2007 Edit   Reply
droopy1592
I wish I could get paid to spew the crap analysts do. It doesn't take a genius or a degree for those kind of statements.
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#1, nor do they require accuracy. you just have to pretend you h...  :  willyolio  (#2)  «
#1, I'm sure you'd be a wonderful analyst. If there's one thing ...  :  Vrock  (#11)  «
#11, at least you noticed I guess I hurt your feelings in the o...  :  droopy1592  (#16)  «

   #10. Posted at 02:57 PM on May 14th 2007 Edit   Reply
blastdoor
It seems that this report is designed to be contraversial. I think it is very, very hard to predict the future given that online (legal) video distribution is still in its infancy.

I'm not going to try to predict who will win and lose. I'll just say that if iTunes had a broader selection of TV shows, I'd probably ditch cable TV altogether (or at least scale it back to basic) and buy all TV shows off of iTunes.

I really hate watching commercials, and so I'd be very happy to pay for the privilege of avoiding ads. I suspect there are others like me, but I don't know how many.

I have to say, though, that when analysts say that people are happy to get free content with ads, I flashback to them saying how people would prefer to use a music subscription service rather than buy their music. I think they had some pessimistic forecasts for how iTunes would do compare to Napster et al. I wonder how that worked out... ;-)
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#10, Ayup. I don't deal with TV at all these days. If I want to s...  :  ludi  (#14)  «

   #13. Posted at 05:11 PM on May 14th 2007 Edit   Reply
albundy
I'd love to become an anal-yst and say a whole bunch of bs, just to get paid alot of money!
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   #4. Posted at 01:19 PM on May 14th 2007 Edit   Reply
Jive
Right.... And we would never need more then 512kb of ram.
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#4, Makes me think when the salesman said to my dad: 8GB, you're...  :  Stijn  (#12)  «

   #7. Posted at 01:35 PM on May 14th 2007, Edited at 01:36 PM on May 14th 2007 Edit   Reply
Krogoth
ROFL, I bet that these analysts are on Sony and Tobisha's payroll.
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   #3. Posted at 01:09 PM on May 14th 2007 Edit   Reply
Corrado
So basicly... it will fail cuz they say it will fail? They don't give any reasons for it... the stuff fox has online for free I can't watch on my TV, I can't watch on my iPod or any other PMP... I can't watch it if i don't have net access. Why would a streaming only video format put me off from buying something I can 'own' and watch on a plethora of devices/
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