Ever wish that some invention existed? I do. All the time. Too often to do anything about most of them. So I'm putting most of them down in here.
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Apple iTunes movie rental on the horizon
So, this is 1/2 tech wish and 1/2 apple rumor (sorry for the rumor half).
Rumor part: Apple to offer movie downloads as RENTALs
You can read a Wall Street Journal article about it (HERE).
Now, the good WISH part:
WISH 1:
Please, please, please let us pay $20 a month for unlimited rentals. Be the digital netflix and everyone will love it. If I have to pay 1.99 per rental (and especially if it's more) I'll use it occassionally, and apple would maybe make $100 off me during the year. BUT - if I could pay $20 a month for unlimited rentals, I'd sign up right away and apple would have $240 of my cash. No problem.
WISH 2:
Sync this to the freakin iPhone and iPodTouch. If I rent a movie, let me do it wirelessly via my iPhone too. Particularly if I'm paying 1.99 per rental (which is just a price I've made up - btw), I want iTunes to remember that I rented it on my desktop, and let me also download it to my handheld device/whatever without paying for it again (and vice versa). If you make iTunes remember where I stopped watching it on my machine, and then let me download it to my iPhone while I'm at the coffee shop & it remembers where I left off - well, hell, you'd almost have my faith in Apple won back over again.
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2 comments:
Have you used an iPhone? Downloading a full-length movie directly to your iPhone on EDGE speeds would be painful. By the time it finished downloading it will be playing commercial-free on the Classic Movie channel.
I like the Netflix, all-you-can eat model, though. I'd drop Blockbuster like that for an all-digital option.
But downloading over WiFi to iPhone would be just fine.
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