Apple Adds High Definition (HD) Movies to iTunes

[Mussels]

so these are 720P - is that streaming, or a (DRM locked) copy you can play locally as well?

if its streaming, this will never take off outside the USA.

 

[Ravenas]

I'm bringing up slow connections because the majority of people have them, so a service like this does not appeal to the majority of people.

This we agree on. However, in the case of music iTunes outsells all retail outlets and internet outlets (i.e.; Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Amazon...).

so these are 720P - is that streaming, or a (DRM locked) copy you can play locally as well?

if its streaming, this will never take off outside the USA.

It's not Streaming.

 

[newtekie1]

so these are 720P - is that streaming, or a (DRM locked) copy you can play locally as well?

if its streaming, this will never take off outside the USA.

They are DRM locked copies that you play locally. The rental versions expire 30 days from when you purchase them, while the ones you buy never expire.

This we agree on. However, in the case of music iTunes outsells all retail outlets and internet outlets (i.e.; Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Amazon...).

Yes, in the case of music, but we are not talking about music. The jump from music to video is a huge one, especially in file size. People can comfortably download music on even the slowest of broadband connections, this isn't the case with HD Video.

 

[Mussels]

as an example on the speeds, i pay for an "upto: 20Mb connection, but in reality i only get 8Mb. On that 8Mb connection i can download at 1000KB/s (1MB/s).

Through steam, even on local australian servers during peak times i'm lucky to get 100KB/s from them.

Its not just peoples internet not being fast enough for this - its also apple having shit-hot servers with fibre optic lines for bandwidth... and that aint going to be possible in every country.

 

[Steevo]

iTunes is one of the most popular program for downloading music legally. This is a good move for apple.

Itunes is one of the most popular music browsers before people pirate it, and use it to sync to their idevice.


Plus mediocre HD, I can get that for free on the interwebz, and use a few free utilities to download the content. GPU upscaling works well for web content now too.

 

[Triprift]

Chuck in the dl limits we have here exp mines is 25 gig a month if i dled hd vids that would go very quickly. =/

 

[h3llb3nd4]

Read my sig ppl! thats what I think about DRM...