RSSDisney Sells 500,000 Movies on iTunes
By the Betanews Staff | Published November 10, 2006, 11:02 AM
Disney continues to have success in selling movies through the iTunes Music Store, saying Thursday it had now sold about 500,000 films in just the first two months of operation. Consumers are downloading movies at rate of about 9,000 per day, generating about $4 million in revenue. At the current time, Disney's studios are the only films available through the service.
That could soon change, however, as CNN> reported Thursday that Fox had said it restarted talks with the Cupertino company. Apple enthusiast site AppleInsider also reported that independent studio Lions Gate had also restarted talks. Perhaps the studios are drawn to the service by its early success: Disney reiterated it expected to sell $50 million worth of movies in the first year.
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|I'd get excited if iTunes even sold any of this stuff outside the US. No, the rest of the world can't buy and download TV episodes. No, we can't buy and download movies. This may comes as a surprise but we do have TV's and cinema's here too.
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|I guess many people don't realize you can get software that will rip DVD's to a format for you ipod.
I like the TV show download - I've used it a few times to watch shows I missed - its a great way to entertain yourself on a long flight. I just don't see the point in spending it on a movie, especially at their prices.
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|That is just way cool. I'm not the biggest Apple fan, but I do own an iMac and appreciate their overall approach to keeping music affordable in the face of the big record companies wanting to jack up the prices.
I'd like to see a breakdown of the types of movies sold and the cost for those, and I would really like it if consumers were able to burn DVD's with those movies on them as well.
Still, nice start.
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