Earlier this week, I posted a brief history of Apple TV from concept (iTV), to initial release (1.0) to the update announced last week at Macworld (2.0). Today, I’ll look at what Apple got right, got wrong and what lies ahead for Apple TV.
The full post is after the jump.
Posts Tagged ‘iTunes Store’
Apple TV, Pt. 2: What Apple fixed (and didn’t)
Posted in Apple TV, iTunes Store, tagged Apple TV, Comcast, iTunes Store, Jeff Zucker, NBC Universal, Netflix on January 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Will Apple TV kill cable/satellite? Netflix? Retail rental?
Posted in Apple TV, iTunes Store, tagged Apple TV, Blu-ray, DVD HD, iTunes Store, Netflix on January 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
RoughlyDrafted had a great post yesterday that predicts Apple TV will knock out Netflix and brick-and-mortar rental stores with one deadly blow.
Apple also couldn’t force all of the labels to sell their movies in iTunes as digital downloads. It could, however, get them all to sign up for movie rentals if it matched the rules [...]
Macworld: Warner Brothers on list for iTS movie rentals
Posted in Apple TV, iTunes Store, tagged Apple TV, iTunes Store, Macworld, Netflix, Steve Jobs, Warner Brothers on January 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Wow, the gang’s (almost) all here. Bloomberg says today that Warner Bros. will join several other studios in making movies available on iTunes Store for sale and rental. The announcement will come in Steve Jobs’ keynote address Monday morning at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco.
Bloomburg says Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, Paramount, [...]
And just like that, HD DVD is now basically toast
Posted in iTunes Store, tagged Blu-ray, HD DVD, iTunes Store, Macworld, NBC Universal on January 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Wow, less than a week after Warner Brothers said it chose Blu-ray over HD DVD and would no longer sell high-definition discs in both formats, Paramount is also apparently dumping HD DVD, according to a report today by Financial Times.
NBC Universal is now the only major studio in the HD DVD camp and — if [...]
Does CES foreshadow Apple TV HD content at Macworld?
Posted in Apple TV, iTunes Store, tagged CES, iTunes Store, Macworld, Xbox Live on January 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Microsoft chief dork Bill Gates kicked off the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) last night by announcing a slew of movie and TV content for its 10-million-member Xbox Live community, much of it in high definition, including:
500 hours of ABC (“Lost,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Desperate Housewives,” “Ugly Betty”), ABC Family (“Kyle XY,” “Greek”), ABC News and Disney [...]
Notes: iTS movie rentals, non-DRM music, Radiohead
Posted in Steve Jobs, iTunes Store, tagged Apple Insider, Blu-ray, iTunes, iTunes Store, Jeff Zucker, MacRumors, Macworld, NBC Universal, Radiohead, The Beatles on January 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There are so many rumors and news items blowing around, I’m going to need oxygen to keep from hyperventilating between now and Macworld. Let’s go:
Macworld. Steve Jobs’ keynote address is Monday, Jan. 14, 2008 — one week from today — starting at 12 p.m. EDT.
Movie rentals. BusinessWeek says today that Apple is [...]
Macworld: Fox, Disney will kick off iTunes movie rentals
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Comcast, Disney, Fox, iTunes Store, Steve Jobs on December 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Half full: Movie rental downloads in iTS. Half empty: Only two of five major studios are on board — not enough to justify buying an Apple TV and dropping Netflix or Comcast.
Variety says Steve Jobs will announce Jan. 14 in his Macworld keynote that 20th Century Fox and Disney movie titles as pay-per-view downloads [...]
Macworld: Fox movie rentals headed to iTunes Store?
Posted in Apple TV, Steve Jobs, iTunes Store, tagged Apple TV, Fox, iTunes Store, Macworld, movie rental, Steve Jobs on December 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Finally, PPV movies in the iTunes Store.
The Financial Times is reporting tonight that Apple and 20th Century Fox have agreed to make Fox new releases available on iTS both on a pay-per-view basis and as embedded tracks that can be ripped from DVDs. Apple Insider and MacRumors have both picked up the story. [...]
Radiohead may finally be coming to iTS
Posted in iTunes Store, tagged iTunes Store, Radiohead, The Beatles on December 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Radiohead’s manager told Billboard the group was in talks with Apple about bringing their new album to the iTunes Store. Radiohead is one of the bigger name acts that has not yet come to iTS, though Thom Yorke’s 2006 solo album, “The Eraser,” is available.
The new CD, “In Rainbows,” which was available online until [...]
Analyst says Apple TV sales below initial projections
Posted in Apple TV, iTunes, iTunes Store, tagged Apple TV, iPhone, iPod touch, iTunes, iTunes Store, NBC on December 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Tech analyst Forrester Research, which in May predicted Apple TV sales this year of one million units, says Apple has sold only 400,000 and will be lucky to sell another 400,000 before the end of the year. The report says Apple TV’s sales forecast tracks about the same as the GarageBand loop library CD-ROMs. [...]
John Lennon ‘video album’ coming Tuesday
Posted in iTunes Store, tagged iTunes Store, John Lennon, Starbucks, The Beatles on November 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
British music mag NME says a John Lennon collection of 21 videos is coming to the iTunes Store next Tuesday. No speculation on The Beatles catalog, but I’m guessing a big fat NO.
The “video album” will be available at Starbucks on an iTunes Digital Release Card, which I gather is a display card with a [...]
Digital rights management: We’ll always have 2007
Posted in iTunes Store, tagged DRM, Fall Out Boy, iTunes Store on November 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
You know the story: Online music stores meet DRM (digital rights management). Online music stores and DRM have torrid affair. Online music stores and DRM have a falling out. Online music stores and DRM are still together, but its just not the same.
Macworld has a summary piece today that breaks down the rise and fall [...]
Does Apple have a strategy for Apple TV?
Posted in Apple TV, Steve Jobs, tagged Apple TV, Comcast, iTunes Store, Steve Jobs on November 26, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I have a love/hate relationship with my Comcast DVR.
It allows me almost complete freedom to set my own viewing schedule, but it screws up a lot. I mean, a lot. “The Office” often records with bad, echo-y audio or no audio at all. Three straight weeks, “How I Met Your Mother” recorded only [...]
Warner Music moves closer to the present tense
Posted in iTunes Store, tagged Apple 2.0 blog, Edgar Bronfman, iPhone, iTunes Store on November 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Philip Elmer-Dewitt has an interesting piece in his Apple 2.0 blog this morning that traces Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman, Jr.’s assimilation into the borg warming attitude toward Apple’s iTunes Store.
Bronfman gave a speech two days ago to the GMSA Mobile Asia Congress about the future of ringtone and music download revenue for mobile [...]
Zucker, Eisner: Apple stole our lunch money
Posted in iTunes Store, tagged iTunes Store, Jeff Zucker, Michael Eisner, NBC, Oprah on November 11, 2007 | 3 Comments »
A network shirt and former network shirt took swipes at Apple this week.
Jeff Zucker, NBC Universal president: “We know that Apple has destroyed the music business – in terms of pricing – and if we don’t take control, they’ll do the same thing on the video side.”
Huh? Zucker is pulling NBC content off the iTunes [...]
