9/20/2006
Disney Sells 125k iTunes Movies
Apple has been selling movies in iTunes 7 for a full week now. How are sales? According to The Wall Street Journal, Walt Disney says they've sold 125,000 movie downloads totaling $1 million in revenue. Not bad for just 1 week."This is just the beginning," Disney CEO Robert Iger told Wall Street analysts at a conference Tuesday. "[iTunes] has proved [to be] a great business because there's no marketing or other expenses involved in selling digital downloads except the cost of encoding." Iger went on to predict that iTunes would help generate $50 million in additional revenue for Disney this year.
Walt Disney Pictures, which includes Pixar, Touchstone Pictures and Miramax Films, is currently the only major movie studio participating on iTunes.75 Disney movies, including such hits as Pirates of the Caribbean, The Incredibles, Good Will Hunting and National Treasure, can currently be purchased on iTunes. The other major movie studios are exploring partnerships with iTunes competitors or have disagreements with Apple over licensing fees. Disney's success this week will probably help convince the other studios that participation on iTunes is probably a good idea.
Disney was also the first to offer TV shows on iTunes a year ago from their American broadcast network ABC.
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Dude I LOVE THE MOVIES!!! I got the Brothers Grimm and it was awesome the resolution was good and I could start watching it after of minute or so of it downloading. Plus I'm like frickin addicted to Lost now, and its super cool cause the resolution is the same as regular NTSC resolution. Its off the chain good!! Hooked up my macbook to the tv with an adapter and good to go!
Two major problems:
1. Limited selection, ya I know, it'll get there but I'm a big indie movie buff and I noticed Disney's movie catalogue bites monkey balls.
2. No rental, they really really really need to compete with netflix
Two major problems:
1. Limited selection, ya I know, it'll get there but I'm a big indie movie buff and I noticed Disney's movie catalogue bites monkey balls.
2. No rental, they really really really need to compete with netflix
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