Apple has crap for video content. Even with the new movie deals. TiVo has anything you receive on your cable/satellite. Especially when you go to HD. How many people want to pay per episode for TV programs? I can TiVo shows, move them to my PC, and have them on my iPod. Except I don't, because I couldn't stand watching TV on that crappy little screen.
Apple doesn't offer most of the content I want. They don't have the majority of the top watched shows for the general public either. They have a long way to go to have content worth talking about. And then it is only useful for people with a fat pipe to pull it down and a PC they're willing to devote a lot of storage on to the content.
Microsoft is also a company with cash money and a massive customer base (WAY larger than Apple), and the software. Media Center Extenders, including the XBox 360, haven't dented TiVo or DVRs in general. Apple has more content, but they're not the first one to have big content deals - there are a number of download services with 'big content deals', and none have taken the world by storm. Even iTunes hasn't done that well on video sales. People just aren't as into downloading video, especially at the poor resolutions to date. They need more of the content to be full SD at a minimum to be acceptable on a TV, but that's minimum.
iTV won't dent TiVo, or the DVR market in general, one bit. Apple needs a real DVR, not some way to sucker people into overpaying for an episode of TV or a movie. And HD content is going to be a problem, that's a LOT of space - around 8GB an hour.
It isn't going to replace cable or satellite (or FiOS, etc). Especially because, to have that fat pipe, you'll need a cable modem or a FiOS type service, and once they have the foot in the door most users will go for bundles with content, phone, etc. Without replacing those content services, it doesn't replace a DVR.
It is a different user, a different market.
I'm a big fan of iTunes and the iPod, I look there first for my music and I use my iPod constantly. But it isn't even worth considering for video, and the new deals haven't changed that.
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on 2006-09-15 07:12 pm (UTC)Apple doesn't offer most of the content I want. They don't have the majority of the top watched shows for the general public either. They have a long way to go to have content worth talking about. And then it is only useful for people with a fat pipe to pull it down and a PC they're willing to devote a lot of storage on to the content.
Microsoft is also a company with cash money and a massive customer base (WAY larger than Apple), and the software. Media Center Extenders, including the XBox 360, haven't dented TiVo or DVRs in general. Apple has more content, but they're not the first one to have big content deals - there are a number of download services with 'big content deals', and none have taken the world by storm. Even iTunes hasn't done that well on video sales. People just aren't as into downloading video, especially at the poor resolutions to date. They need more of the content to be full SD at a minimum to be acceptable on a TV, but that's minimum.
iTV won't dent TiVo, or the DVR market in general, one bit. Apple needs a real DVR, not some way to sucker people into overpaying for an episode of TV or a movie. And HD content is going to be a problem, that's a LOT of space - around 8GB an hour.
It isn't going to replace cable or satellite (or FiOS, etc). Especially because, to have that fat pipe, you'll need a cable modem or a FiOS type service, and once they have the foot in the door most users will go for bundles with content, phone, etc. Without replacing those content services, it doesn't replace a DVR.
It is a different user, a different market.
I'm a big fan of iTunes and the iPod, I look there first for my music and I use my iPod constantly. But it isn't even worth considering for video, and the new deals haven't changed that.