TheAppleBlog just wrote how hopefully the fact that on the first day, Disney sold 5 million DVD’s of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, would give Apple leverage for convincing other studios to let them sell content on iTMS (iTunes Music Store). The AppleBlog author, Iyaz Akhtar’s point being that DVD’s and digital content, such as the movies sold on iTMS can actually coexist.
He raises that this has previously been of concern to other studio’s, their fear that their DVD revenues would stagnate.
Availability and access being especially attractive for the new Internet generation, has meant films are especially conspicuous on not completely legal torrent and peer-to-peer networks. So as AppleBlog points out this may truly be good news, for those who want the content as quickly, but want to be able to be law abiding citizens.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest is available for purchase for $9.99 at iTMS. In comparison Amazon offers it for $14.99.
[...] My second follow-up is in regards to my post Domino effect for Apple’s iTMS? where the hopes have not exactly been realized. But according to NPD’s Press Release Apple’s iTunes Music Store (iTMS) led the market for paid digital video downloads. (With 90% of downloaded, paid videos.) Of the downloaded content: 62% were TV shows, 24% were music videos, and 6% were mainstream movie content. In my head that sums up to 92%, sounds like NPD failed to mention something. Well the number is 6! 6 percent mainstream movie downloads. It’s not much but it’s definitely as good start (especially for a Music Store.) [...]
[...] I think all of these online services will be healthy competition for iTMS in addition regarding my post: Domino effect for Apple’s iTMS? & Ad and iTMS Movies – Apple Follow-Ups, I think that it all proves that people are sincerely wanting the possisiblity to be able to buy movies online rather than download pirated material. [...]