Apple & Miscellaneous 25 Jan 2007 08:00 am
AppleTV to kill TiVo and DVR services?
http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=301
Interesting article, albeit he left out one factor in tallying up price over two years, cost of high-speed internet… figure $40/mo ($480/yr.), $50/mo. if you drop cable. Most cable providers add $10 per/mo if you have only internet.
So if I dropped cable and went with AppleTV, internet access and a few choice shows:
- AppleTV: $299
- Internet ($50/mo): $600
- BattleStar Galactica: $35
- Grey’s Anatomy: $35
- The Unit: $35 (N/A on iTunes)
- Heroes: $43
- Crossing Jordan: $35 (N/A on iTunes)
- Lost: $35
- Daily Show: $40
- House: $35 (N/A on iTunes)
- Rescue Me: $35 (N/A on iTunes)
- Blade (the Series): $35 (N/A on iTunes)
- UFC / The Ultimate Fighter on Spike!: $45 (N/A on iTunes)
- Law & Order: $36
- Law & Order, SVU: $36
Well, iTunes doesn’t have everything on it yet, but maybe it will sometime soon, then I just may dump cable. I most definitely will dump cable if I can get these in DVD quality (right now the recordings on iTunes are just below DVD quality). I rarely watch live TV anyway…
Someday soon…
But there’s a few issues that need to be addressed:
- Re-downloading lost/corrupted videos
- How to get people hooked on new shows?: Free pilot episodes.
- iTunes needs a free channel for show pilots, who says the idiots in Hollywood know what we like to watch? E.g. Showtime dumping “Dead Like Me” (9.1/10 on imdb.com)
Pretty soon producers (the non-”for XXXXXX channel” people) will probably start going straight to Apple iTunes.