[geeks] Mac World announcements...

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Jan 16, 2008, at 8:34 PM, Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> On Jan 16, 2008, at 3:18 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>
>
>> I gotta say, looking at it as $229 plus $1.99/episode vs. cost-of-DVR
>> plus ridiculous-monthly-cost-of-TV-service, it sounds like a win.
>
> Depends on what you watch.
>
> If I paid $2/episode for what I watch on Miro and standard cable, I'd
> go broke with Apple TV.
>
> Besides, I thought Apple's prices were $2-3 for old movies, $4 for new
> releases?
>


The annoying thing is, the typical cost to the supplier for  
downloading 1 movie (bandwidth and server space needed) is about 15  
cents, which is cheaper than postage.  So clearly there is a lot of  
margin there.

Cordially

Patrick Giagnocavo
patrick at zill.net