Apple Event on September 12th

[instant.human]

YAY! :)

gapless is cool. :)

but the movies are WAY too much.

[dh5]

Sweet :woot:

[Landshark77]

Man... honestly... these annoucements are like ###### on a bull. USELESS. I would be pretty pi55ed if I drove all the way there only to see "updates" and not "upgrades" (You know what I mean).

Edited September 12, 2006 by Landshark77

[saxondale.]

Thanks! No more cross fading!

iTunes does seem a nice update :)

[Cambria]

Hey, it looks as if iTunes 7 is sporting a new icon...blue, it looks like.

[tronmaster]

Movies at 640x480? Near DVD quality, sheesh. Not even widescreen.

[Norante]

Mm.. I wonder if iTunes 7 will work on Windows XP x64.

[jami_welch]

gah U.S. only, will tv shows come to U.K. when movies do?

[REM2000]

international 2007 :crazy: :(

[saxondale.]

Engadget: So: Movies

near DVD image quality

Dolby surround audio

Same day as DVD

Pre-order with one click

Usage rights = same as TV shows

Parental controls extended to include MPAA ratings

International in 2007

[instant.human]

Movies at 640x480? Near DVD quality, sheesh. Not even widescreen.

nah man, same encoding as the tv shows which are encoded at 640x480. ;)

[Bobster]

I really hope iTunes 7 will work flawlessly on Vista RC1.

[Chicane-UK Veteran]

Yeah me too.. on Vista ATM and watching the iTunes DL page! :D

[GMCloud27]

Same here regarding RC1; I've been trying every combo to see if iTunes 7 is up yet:

http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/co...iTunesSetup.exe

Still nadda :/

[Quactaur]

The movies just aren't worth it. Considering the costs of physical are gone, they should be far cheaper or offer far more.

I'd rather get the progressive, widescreen, multiformat, unrestricted, feature packed, subtitled, multi languaged, physical media that is DVD. Itunes 7 sounds great though.

[jami_welch]

HOPE to make it international lame

[TruckWEB]

NEAR DVD quality at 640x480. That's not even widescreen. Dolby Suround, that's not the same as Dolby Digital so no 5.1 sound.

All this and no new iPod Video...??

And at 15$ (even 10$ for older movie) it's just a tad less than real DVD in stores. It would take just a little bit time to extract and convert to iPod with better quality and you still enjoy the full DVD for your home theater.

I guess i'll keep my 5G iPod for another year... or until january 2007! :shifty:

Edited September 12, 2006 by TruckWEB

[jami_welch]

people will buy into it hough, its hardly much of a different situation price wise to cd's and tv shows.

[Chicane-UK Veteran]

If you were desperate to watch a movie and didn't want to wait to buy it cheap online (and wait for postage) and didn't want to go and pay over the odds in the shops, then yeah.. you might buy one or two.. but I certainly wouldn't build up a collection based on it!

[dh5]

Looking forward to the iTunes update

[dL]

Guess no touchscreen iPods :(

dL

[instant.human]

and no core 2 duo mbp. ;) :(

[saxondale.]

im still waiting for steve to say: Videos are now at 640x480, now you need something to play them on...

[jami_welch]

those werent expected though were they?

[tronmaster]

You have to remember that the prices of both the music and movies are dictated by the movie and music industry. Apple has some leeway such as the .99 USD per song title. However, the RIAA, doesn't like this model at all and has been fighting Apple for an increase in prices. Probably, the movie industry is doing the same to Apple.

Disney and the other studios (that are owned by Disney). Probably thought of a higher price point. But since Steve Jobs is part of Disney now, he was able to persuade these low prices. However, since no other movie company is on board, it strongly seems that the movie studios wanted a higher price. So be glad they are selling at these prices.