A recent Forbes report claims that 1.2 million households purchased a video download in the third quarter of this year, while five times as many people illegally downloaded videos from P2P networks. Of these legal downloads, Apple is responsible for 90% of the overall market:``Of paid downloads, 62% was TV content, 24% was music video content and 6% was mainstream movie content.... About 90% percent came from Apple Computer's iTunes store, with 5% coming from movie-subscription site Vongo, 3% from movie download service Movielink and less than 1% from movie download service CinemaNow."
Is this indicative of future trends? Will Apple be able to maintain such numbers in the future? Remember, these figures only represent 1/4 of this entire year, and 2007 will be a whole new ballgame.
(via Hacking Netflix)
1. Downloadable videos is where it is at. I'm just hoping iTunes brings the resolution up to at least SD. I know current iPods have small screens, but some media players, like Creative's Zen, can play the 720x480 resolution even though their screen is way smaller. The higher resolution comes in handy when you want to play it out to a TV from the media player though.
Posted at 10:49PM on Dec 22nd 2006 by Joshua E-B