Obscene iTunes profit margins finally win Hollywood's heart - Valleywag Comments

Obscene iTunes profit margins finally win Hollywood's heart

BartKela — Fri, 02 May 2008 07:32:53 PDT

Hasn't Steve-o admitted that the profits from the iTunes Store are nominal and that its primary function is to drive sales of its higher-margin hardware?

And assuming that a cable-based VOD trial is the same as a real-life, production Internet media store is questionable at best.

BartKela

Obscene iTunes profit margins finally win Hollywood's heart

asus — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:53:22 PDT

Actually, the Apple TV HD movies are quite good quality. Don't believe me? Check out:

[www.ilounge.com]

The h.264 720p videos are really quite good. We have come a long way since the old days...

asus

Obscene iTunes profit margins finally win Hollywood's heart

dalejo — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:40:32 PDT

$15 for a crappy, overly compressed digital copy? No thanks. If you are getting the DVD the day of, you can probably save a few bucks, have a physical copy and better picture.

Are Apple consumers really this stupid? Wait, don't bother to answer that.

dalejo

Obscene iTunes profit margins finally win Hollywood's heart

shiwsup — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:41:53 PDT

Did they really need a test pilot to tell that the margin for digital distribution is higher for with physical DVDs?

shiwsup

Obscene iTunes profit margins finally win Hollywood's heart

BobDope — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:08:53 PDT

How're we gonna whip wikipedia into shape if we're all waiting for American Gangster to download? Clay Shirky's hypothesis is threatened!

BobDope

Obscene iTunes profit margins finally win Hollywood's heart

agraham999 — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:52:32 PDT

Finally...hookers and blow...and movies about hookers and blow!

Problem with all that blow is that we'll soon see Escape From New York 3, Triple X 3, and Alien vs Predator 3.

Halcion days are here again!

agraham999