RSSiTunes 6 Brings $1.99 Music Videos
By Nate Mook | Published October 12, 2005, 1:48 PM
Barely a month after the release of iTunes 5, Apple has launched version 6 of the media player software, which adds Amazon-like customer reviews and recommendations to the iTunes Music Store. "Gifting" is also now enabled for customers to buy music for others, who receive an e-mail with download information.
With iTunes 6, Apple has expanded its library of music videos in order to make content available for the video iPod; each will cost $1.99 USD to download. Pixar is also making six short films available through the iTunes Music Store for the same $1.99 USD price. Videos take about 20MB of disk space and contain the same FairPlay usage rights as music downloads. TV show downloads will also be offered.
So I guess if I happened to buy one of these I could just download movies and convert them to 320x240 and watch them on the ipod. I guess by doing this I could make up the money for how overpriced this thing is.
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|Too bad 90% of them stink.
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|What format will the videos be in? Would I be able to watch them on my XP Media Center Edition? Or will I be forced to watch them in iTunes?
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|It's Apple. Bet on having to use iTunes. Also bet on someone releasing something that allows you to watch it with whatever.
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|Good luck watching them on a computer at all. They are all 320x240 resolution.
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|They're pulling a bunch of MS moves. THEY make the standard, they rule the industry. Damn them. 320x240 is viewable as most of us love to blow up video to 200%.
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|When will iTunes 6 be available for download? I might actually switch to iTunes from Winamp if the resource whoring is less severe.
EDIT: It's on FileForum, but the release notes make it seem like the same old song and dance.
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|ahh!!
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|Best. Comment. Of. The. Year.
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|Intellectual! Entertaining! That comment was edu-tational!
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|Music videos and short films are definitely a great start! Next, I'd like to see Apple expand the selection with full-length movies and even TV shows, the same content that people are getting illegally.
EDIT: And just like that...again...we've got TV shows!
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|I don't get why you'd want to watch a TV show or a movie on such a small screen?
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|Because if you're like me, I have my PC hooked up to my TV system via a simple S-Video cable.
Its quite nice
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|The size of the monitor connected to your PC is 2.5 inches???? I still don't get it.
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|hmm, first off, the device won't have a video out for you to do this, and second, if it did, the video resolution would be cut way down to where you don't notice it so much on a small screen, but watching it on computer or tv would be terrible.
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|I hope itunes fixes the sound problem it's being there for almost 5 versions maybe it conflicts with other software installed...
http://www.applefritter.com/node/5636
some people say it's just the computer and the sound device , i don't think this could be a "hardware problem " but i hope in itunes 6 will be fix
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