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Wow! check out the power of the apple distribution network. This is serious volume.

$50 million in it’s first year! Very nice numbers.

See pictures of the Box here.

Walt Disney Chief Executive Robert Iger on Tuesday said the company sold 125,000 movie downloads worth $1 million in revenue through Apple Computer’s iTunes online music store in the first week Disney movies were offered.Iger told a conference of analysts the company expects to take in $50 million in added revenue during the first year of the iTunes movie download program, which was unveiled by Apple on Sept. 12.

Disney CEO touts new iTunes movie downloads | CNET News.com

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Over at engadget you can get the full sope on what the reatil giant is planning. What ever they do, they better do it fast as itunes has already started to make it’s move.

We’ve heard rumblings for a while — and Wal-Mart’s purported intense opposition to the iTunes Movie Store might’ve had something to do with it as well — but now the rumors are coming hot and heavy in regards to a movie download store from the retail giant.

Wal-Mart prepping a download store, too? - Engadget

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It’s official, Apple is now in the move download business. Itunes store reads “It’s Showtime” as it updates it new itunes store for movie downloads

SEATTLE, Washington (Reuters) — When Apple Computer introduced the iPod digital music player and companion iTunes music software, it created a legitimate market for music downloads and solved a problem vexing the technology industry.Nearly five years later and on the eve of an announcement expected to be about movie downloads, analysts anticipate Apple will deliver a product to solve the entertainment industry’s current dilemma: how to bridge the gap between the living room television and the computer.If Apple could solve that problem, analysts see the potential for another round of robust growth at a time when the company is facing a growing number of competitors in the digital music market, including Microsoft.”When you’re talking movie downloads within the home, you have to be able to get stuff from the downloaded point to the big screen in the house,” said Michael Gartenberg, analyst at Jupiter. “That’s been the weak link.”

CNN.com - Movie download next on Apple cart? - Sep 12, 2006

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Hold on to your hats, many industry analyst think Apple is about to get into the movie download business but take it one step farther than rival Amazon by introducing a ipod device that will allow them to take a DVD quality file from the computer to the TV. Big news… Read on

On Tuesday, Apple will hold another of Jobs’ marketing events in San Francisco to introduce what trade publications and analysts indicate will be his next campaign: an effort to transform the distribution of Hollywood movies as thoroughly as he has revolutionized the recording industry with the iTunes Music Store.

Can Jobs marry the computer and TV? | CNET News.com

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Amazon is taking a beating in the press over its new download service. Long download times, heavy software you have to download, and no way to burn to DVD like a Cinemanow.

See below:

Amazon Un-readyThe web-based store itself is easy to navigate and Amazon-esque in every way. Amazon has revamped the digital downloads section to make it look and feel like a “remote library” of the things you have purchased, but it’s neither amazing nor disappointing. It’s serviceable, perhaps.

Amazon Unbox better left off your box

Also see this article: http://blogs.reuters.com/2006/09/08/critics-unfriendly-to-amazons-unbox/

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