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To: OrionX who wrote (56572)	9/5/2006 8:47:23 PM
From: aaplfan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213183

Is all this movie download stuff pure smoke and hype? It's very real. They've been doing it with TV shows for about a year now. Can someone explain to me how anyone could seriously contemplate downloading upto 8.5GB of a DVD within a realistic time, like less than 30 minutes for instance? Who said people would be downloading a DVD? Bet on Apple using highly compressed H.264 and files sizes likely in the 300M to 800M range tops. It could be far less if they don't go for 'full' (i.e. broadcast quality) resolution.

To: OrionX who wrote (56572)	9/5/2006 8:51:18 PM
From: Lee Harper	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213183

Here's an idea. Instead of grousing over nothing but rumors at this point, why don't you stop freaking out about it until Apple actually announces what they have in store. All your squealing and bellyaching won't bring the stock price back down to where you wish you had bought it, so get over it already.

To: OrionX who wrote (56572)	9/6/2006 12:55:18 AM
From: Doren	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213183

Is all this movie download stuff pure smoke and hype? Same as music ONCE was. People are downloading movies right now. Mostly on private pirate networks. I have a friend who subscibes and watches movies all the time on his computer. But there is a different thing (god forbid I use the word paradigm) going on here. From what I was lead to understand you buy the movie, and download it but it's also sent to you on a DVD. So you get the movie overnight and still have a plastic copy for later. If so it's a brilliant marketing solution. I've watched a few movies on my computer and they look pretty good. The one thing that bothered me is no remote. Apple smartly includes remotes with some models now. Also you have to realize this is just the start. I'm sure you'll see all of these companies reselling this stuff to people in different versions as time and bandwith goes on, just as some consumers have had the vinyl, CD, CD remastered and finally the iTunes versions of music. It's lucrative to resell the same media over and over to suckers.