Downloading movies is kind of a fool’s game. You have the movie on disk, but now what? Am I going to burn it to a DVD so my kid can watch it? Probably not. I basically paid – or didn’t pay – for content I’ll never access again.
Well, it seems Apple is thinking about adding streaming to the next version of iTunes and, presumably, offering cheaper streaming prices for those so inclined. I could totally see two things happening – iTunes 8 and Apple TV offering video “rental” – 99 cents seems about right – and, and this is far fetched, some sort of little program they can put into another device to grab your iTunes content on multiple systems a la Netflix.
