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  1. Comment - CBS Programming Coming to iTunes

    (Feb 3, 2006 - 3:48 PM)

    DJOmegaRush you misunderstood... itunes isn't changing the way they do things... the point about 24 hour limits on viewing is that this IS NOT how itunes works, but IS the model used by the systems that CBS has so far used to sell video....

    What I find amazing about what Apple has done with video is..... that it's brilliant in its simplicity--- totally predictable... and yet it's moving very quickly and so far no one else seems to be offering any competitive alternative!

    What do I mean? Well, 1. the video on itunes is simple- and it works (I've tried the video services through yahoo, google, and aol, --- google didn't look that gret and I had a hard time even getting a picture to show up in aol and yahoo).... 2. the drm is enough to get the content providers to keep hopping on board at an amazingly fast rate (if/when cbs/fox hop on board then it's game over/apple wins-imho opinion.... kind of like with the music, they have 80% market share right now but if they manage to get the big hold-outs like the beatles and metallica then it's simply game over--- apple WINS
    --- but the drm, while not perfect (would be great if we could burn dvd's, etc...) is reasonable enough to make the purchases worthwile (transfer to set # of pcs, unlimited # of ipods, and own the file for life)

    --- and both audio and video podcasting is a huge boon to anyone with a portable device capable of playing these files (psp, ipod, any mp3 player for audio podcasts and most players supporting video for video podcasts)

    ---there have been portable devices capable of supporting video for at least a few years now.... the 2 key differences with apple are ipod size (yes, you can play damn near anything on a portable dvd player, but you can't fit it in your pocket, can you?--- on the other extreme-- don't you think the cell phone is just a little TOO small to be watching video on for very long?) and itunes...-- the first convenient way to distribute/receive content (intelligently starting with music videos and slowly moving towards longer and longer content... movies maybe later this year--- but honestly, the smaller and more portable the device, the more likely the consuer is to want shorter content (tv, podcasts, etc) and not full length feature films

    anyway,
    that's my 2 cents