Besides the fact that the movie and the music industry are a bunch of very green and greedy monkeys, Apple has managed to drop the amount of music piracy thru iTunes. But can they do the same for the movies? I doubt it. Why? Well I have my reasons. Firstly let me explain why the two worlds are different no matter how similar they are. There are very few people like me who would go after collecting a whole album for just one song. And that was also back in the Napster days. Back then MP3s was the shit. But then the whole lawsuit thing came along.

Anyways, the thing about the music world is that there are tons of time one will just like one or two tracks from a CD and not the rest. So it makes complete sense that given the opportunity people will buy those tracks only and not shell out money for the whole CD. However, I do know a bunch of people who did buy a whole CD just for one track. Well, they did before iTunes came along. iTunes and the other music stores gave the users a wonderful opportunity for buying only they tracks they want. No more selling an album with one title song that is just awesome while the others are just way below par. Trust me, there are tons of those too.

Now with videos however things are different. I can see music videos being bought for a wonderful price of $1.99, but I don’t while see movies and TV series bought in the same rate. I mean think about it. There is a good chance that one might want just one particular music video instead of the whole DVD from that artist. But what are the chances that someone will get only 1 episode of a TV series? I mean most of the time if someone wants to own a TV series is becuz they really like it. At least that’s the way I am. And so far I haven’t heard of people just wanting to own 1 episode of a TV serial.

And as for movies, I will agree that not always someone cares about the extras that come with it. Even tho Apple have not put a price on movies (or mentioned anything about selling it), one can hope that it will be less than $5. I don’t really see myself seeing a movie that was encoded in 480×272 resolution. I’d much rather get the DVD. Granted that using the H.264 encoding scheme the quality of the video is quite high. There’s something about blwoing up a native 480×272 video on to a 1600×1200 screen that bothers me. I can’t say how pixelated it gets, but it a scary thought. My guess would be that digital copies of the movies will serve as a cheap alternatives for DVDs at most. And with 10 MB for every minute (approximately), a one hour movie will be about 600 Mbs.

This all is just my two cents…. of course.