I like the points both of you made because both are valid. I personally can enjoy a movie on an iPod- even when its panned & scanned. I would never allow this to be used for my home theater viewing though- that would greatly offend my sensibilities.

My original point though is if you own content and you want to see where you can best sell it, will it be the place that sells maybe 60-100,000 titles a year or in excess of 1.5m. Its more complex than that of course because of the deals with Apple and the traditional distributors, but as we have seen usually the mass market wins out and we are beginning to get the hard data on where the "mass" of the mass market is.

Now imagine when these people play those itunes movies back via Apple TV. Will the majority of them be so offended by the relative lack of resolution vs. even DVD that they will get off their lazy butts to buy/rent/ otherwise grab the DVD? My speculation is no they wont.

Fortunately we here have different sensibilities. smile

best regards,
Jerry

Best regards,
Jerry
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