[robogobo]

Let me just cut to the chase. ATX, you're an ignorant whiner, exactly the kind that clouds these pages with nothing productive to say, only pointless nitpicking. "Movies" is slang for "film", and comes from the time when a still picture was put together with another still picture and another and another to make it seem like an image was "moving". It of course is not moving, yet this illusion, however long, qualifies it as a movie. In fact the first movies were only 10 minutes long, still called movies.
So, let me bring down the horses after carefully reading your nitpicking, and point out that the iTunes Store now has over 1000 films, all of which are "movies". Your assumption that they would be feature length "films" is an understandable mistake, yet discounts the validity of Shorts as legitimate films that a great many of us is interested in watching.
Dude, get a life.

[Grapho]

I agree that Steve Jobs is not a god. That said, tyrant or not, he is a bit more then a egotistical public speaker. You think he started Apple, NeXt Step, took Pixar and then Apple to new highs by being mediocre. If anything he knows how to delegate and choose brilliant talent, if nothing else.

Now I am not defending Apple blindly, Steve has made several promises that have not come to fruition, but so has Gate, Ballmer or any politician for that matter. At least with Apple, well sometimes things take longer but they ultimately get their.

Now, lets think this thing for a second. Why do you think Apple has not been able to keep it's promise?

Is it because they simply don't care and think that what is available is good enough, or maybe because the studios are entrenched within the old movie distribution business model and are reluctant to pass on total control of their media to one sole company that has already become the most successful and biggest music distributor with in the US. I am sure they are not totally blind, as I am also sure that they already know that Blu-Ray is only a stepping stone to full resolution 1080p internet download. If it hasn't happened, is not because it's not possible, it's because it's not feasible with todays common commercial bandwidths.

Two things you have to realize:

Blu-Ray movies, however shortly lived, will be selling at a premium to all the early adopters that have already invested in equipment that is capable of displaying it. So, do you really think they want to miss out on that extra revenue, heck, they suffered enough sales by having the consumer stand in the sidelines watching the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray format war take place. I am sure that like me, many have decided to wait and see how things panned out before committing to any of the two formats.

Secondly, Blu-Ray has superior DRM to what is available today, it will get cracked, but like it happened with DVD, it will take sometime which the studios hope they can use to milk the cow for all that is worth. At least Blu-Ray pirate distribution will be costly if feasible at all. This is good for the studios.

[MacTel]

Hopefully the next 1000 won't take so long to make available. Has Apple set another goal for themselves like 10,000 movies available by Christmas?

[DisabledTrucker]

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Two things you have to realize:

Blu-Ray movies, however shortly lived, will be selling at a premium to all the early adopters that have already invested in equipment that is capable of displaying it. So, do you really think they want to miss out on that extra revenue, heck, they suffered enough sales by having the consumer stand in the sidelines watching the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray format war take place. I am sure that like me, many have decided to wait and see how things panned out before committing to any of the two formats.

Secondly, Blu-Ray has superior DRM to what is available today, it will get cracked, but like it happened with DVD, it will take sometime which the studios hope they can use to milk the cow for all that is worth. At least Blu-Ray pirate distribution will be costly if feasible at all. This is good for the studios.{quote}

Firstly, BRD and HD-DVD both use the same MP4 - h.264 format, the only difference between them is the hardware they are built on. Most equipment sold these days can display it at least to some extent. Millions, (if not billions) of people have already purchased either or both of the formats and invested heavily into it, primarily from purchases of one of the two biggest names, (currently,) in consoles. (Okay granted the XBOX-360's drive isn't included with it's system like the PS-3 is, a lot of people purchased the HD-DVD player with the promise that Microsoft was coming out with HD content for it's consoles, thinking they would need the player to play that content. Not to mention it was a quick and cheap way to get a start into the HD era.)

Secondly, BRD's DRM has already been hacked, just as easily as HD-DVD and DVD's have. BRD's pirate distribution may be costly but, then like DVD's costs will come down over time. BRD is only in it's first year, HD-DVD, (generally speaking,) is also in it's infancy. I can remember when the costs of a new DVD were around $50 in it's infancy, now you can get new releases on DVD's for less than $10, and pirated for even cheaper if not free. Same can be said for HD content currently in reguards to pirated content.