RE: [videoblogging] Re: VIDEO IPOD!!!!!

Wed, 12 Oct 2005 13:48:27 -0700

So, these are my very unofficial first thoughts –

 

I am very excited about ABC leading the way and at least making a starting point for major media distribution. I can’t wait to see where this goes over the next two weeks. It really makes me excited to go to work everyday. Actually, everything is moving so fast, I kind of don’t want to leave.

 

I am a bit disappointed in the firepower. 480x480 mpeg-4. Even if it can display it on the screen I would hope it could do full screen video on the TV out. There have been handheld mpeg-4 player capable of full DVD resolution for well over a year. I have to imagine that this limitation will be overcome with the next release.

 

Overall a thumbs up. The more people are used to getting their video over the internet in general, the lower the barrier for common and extraordinary video _expression_.

 

 

 

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Watkins
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 12:26 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [videoblogging] Re: VIDEO IPOD!!!!!

 

Incentives to pay:

1) Ease. Its so damn easy to buy music off itunes and have it on your
ipod. Once people reach a certain threshold of earnings, their time
becomes more valuable to them than a few dollars.

2) Maybe there arent any adverts  in the TV shows. Pay to avoid that
brainrot inserted annoyingly into shows I want to watch? You bet.

The TV show stuff is something Im interested in but I bet there will
be global licensing issues that prevent me from being able to buy all
the same itunes TV shows as you can in the USA. Hope Im wrong, but it
seems a safe bet to me, considering we are often months or whole
series behind with when many US ttv shows get shown on TV in the UK.

Steve of Elbows

--- In [email protected], Clint Sharp wrote:
> >
> > Hrm. $1.99 seems a little pricey to me for one TV show. That's $50 a
> > season. I watch about 5 shows not in reruns and probably another 7
to 10
> > in syndication. Figuring 15 shows, that'd be $750/yr for the shows I
> > watch, or about $62.50 a month. I pay less than that for cable,
plus I
> > have access to all the shit I don't watch regularly. Someone's gonna
> > have to come up with a better business model.
> >
> > Not only that, but $1.99 for 320x240 versions of television shows? 
> > What's my incentive to pay?
>





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