Topic: Apple in a position to buy the Movie Industry

[Lumi Kløvstad]

You know. The American one.

They probably won't. Right now. But that industry has a pie that Apple wants. An... "Apple Pie", if you will. And it's called "Apple TV".

Imagine any show or movie on demand on your TV, way beyond what is available in iTunes now. There is no program guide, no schedule. Everything is there, organized according to your taste or what’s popular that day. Just as Apple provides a store for hundreds of thousands of apps—some free, some paid, some subscription—it could do the same thing with videos. TV shows and movies would be treated like apps. Some would be free. Some you could pay to download or rent to watch, like you can today. But there would also be subscription options.

Sounds like a plan. I support that model of business wholeheartedly.

Thoughts?

[X]

If this brings the current Hollywood state of mind to come crashing down so that we can get back to making movies the way WE want to, instead of conforming to a tight-necked way of thinking, then yes. Bring. It. On.

[Abnormal Freak]

I'd be down for a subscription service (like Netflix) which allows you to watch new/current movies and shows and, hell, all movies and shows, not just what a rights holder feels like paying for to have streamed that month. I don't do the whole digitally rent thing (even though I desperately wanna see the Tim and Eric movie, I refuse to pay $10 to see it on YouTube or through Amazon or iTunes), but if there was a low-cost monthly fee that you can cancel at any time, with a great deal of entertainment at your fingertips, I think that'd be pretty cool and is the kind of thing an industry that thinks in dinosaur terms needs.

That said, I sincerely hope that streaming isn't fully "the wave of the future." I'd hate for something like this to greatly affect profitability for physical media. I like my Blu-rays, and even with a fast streaming service, streaming HD content doesn't look as good as what you can slap onto a disc, and not everybody (like myself) has access to super high-speed Internet. Not only that, but I think there's something more gratifying about physically owning the things you love, although if you're one to collect a lot of entertainment like me, space runs out and you start to gradually warm up to digital means of distribution. (Though I'll never do that for comics.)

[Kale]

That'd be awesome....

I hate apple, but I hate the movie industry more.

Of course I don't really see this as getting better, or worst.... but who knows.

[Mooning Freddy]

Oh, sure. Let Apple control the movie industry. And then they'll buy Microsoft, and then Google, and then everything else.

Mwahahaha, Mwahahahahaha!!!

Ironic, isn't it?

1984 Apple's Macintosh Commercial

[TheouAegis]

That will never happen. As soon as Bill Gates' goons find Steve Jobs' head-in-a-jar, they'll smash it to bits and Apple will crumble into oblivion.  That's how Bill rolls, y'know. They said so on The Simpsons.

[Inccubus]

Doesn't Microsoft already own most of apple anyway?

On topic: Yes I think that would be great. Hollywood sucks ass. I think Apple would do a better job of providing content than the entire rest of the movie/tv industry ever has.