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News or Rumor? Apple to announce film downloading service [UPDATED]
From the “Rumors-and-speculation-being-reported-as-news” desk…
There is a report floating around that Apple will announce a “film download service,” which presumably means full-length movies, according to an article on RedOrbit (originally from the UK’s “Sunday Business"). The article states no sources for the claim. Rumors of such a service have been floating around since the dawn of time, or at least for the last year or two. Current rumors are pointing toward some sort of iPod boombox and maybe an Intel-based Mac mini being announced at tomorrow’s Apple media event.
Deep Thought’s take:Lies, damned lies, and unsubstantiated speculation!
Okay. Members of the media, listen up because I am not going to repeat this! Or maybe I will, but not now. For the love of fried chicken and a side of cole slaw, do not--repeat--do not report rumors as if they are news. Ever. Report rumors as rumors and make it clear that they are just rumors and nothing conclusive! It’s especially bad when you site a rumor as fact and don’t bother to cite a source! Bad reporter! NO COOKIE!
I tracked this story back to an article on The Register’s Reg Hardware. Again, so source. Again, no saying that it’s a rumor or assumption. Argh!
UPDATE: It looks like the guys at MacNotables agree with me when it comes to rumors being reported as fact.
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The one problem I have with the iTunes Media Store is that the downloads take long for a two minute clip at 320 X 240. Imagine how long that same clip would take to download at 720 X 480, much less HD resolutions. Unless they stream the films, it might take a very long time.
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| Liam | 9:05 am |
I’ll simply call it the iTunes Store and yes it’s slow; demanding on bandwidth and the only thing better besides a physical media is Direct Connect/DC++. If the music were uncompressed in Apple lossless it’d be about as slow as a TV download, you’d figure? If the TV were uncompressed in a reasonable sense…
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OK so it’s a rumor. Here’s my tangent:
So the rumor community ignores the reality that iTunes sells stuff that only makes sense on an iPod and is not DVD quality---but if something better goes on the store how will the people who bought the tiny resolution stuff get the upgrade? Will they?
I want to legally collect the 90’s TV show “The Outer Limits” in excellent quality but it’s barely on DVD and not on iTunes. Further, now that I’ve seen how you can buy episodes individually but how low quality Apple’s are (what happened to the year of HD?), I want neither the expensive DVD sets which are on the horizon nor iTunes in the long run.
The answer: as always, the impending popularity of [technology Y] plus the free market and fans like me who get more and more frustrated with Sci-Fi channel re-runs. HDTV will become at least the FCC norm in 2007 but the ideal time I’d love to own these episodes is of course yesterday.