Apple Drops Music Video Prices

Nice. I'm cool with differing prices, as long as they only get lower. However, with TubeTV and YouTube, I still can't justify the cost.

I doubt we will see a drop in music prices. I believe this move is to convince people who are hanging on to older ipods or nanos to upgrade to newer units.

tempting...

Nice. I'm cool with differing prices, as long as they only get lower. However, with TubeTV and YouTube, I still can't justify the cost.

Your telling me you enjoy the crappy quality of a you tube video. Would you pay that price for a Music video with a higher resolution? You tube is free because no one in their right mind should pay to see pixelated videos. One thing you need to realize is that the computer monitor has been a HD monitor. You could download a video that was higher res then SD TV. I have no idea why youtube style video are popular venue fof media for entertainment. It is take 3 steps back when everything is going HD. You bought a HD tv but watch Youtube videos at full screen on you monitor that is larger than the 1080max your tv does. You tube for me is like a free low res crappy preview of something I would want to watch and would obtain elseware...........Not to mention the audio getting butchered.

I am not bashing you just everyone in the general thinking terms.

I noticed this lat tuesday in UK itunes TV series episodes are now about £1.29 , Music videos are various prices, most are still very expensive at £1.89 each... Still nice apple are dropping things to a reasonable level..

I enjoy the occasional music video, and didn't mind paying $1.99, so this is a welcome change, as I will probably be a little more inclined to buy the music video of a song. I still would not buy the video as the song simply because of other factors like Complete My Album.

I never understood why anyone would pay for a music video in the first place. With a song, you listen to it over and over, so the 99¢ is worth it. The music videos I've downloaded from the iTunes music store (either free ones, or ones that came free with an album) all had much lower quality audio than their AAC counterparts, and normally much quieter as well, so even when my iPod plays them as songs, I skip them.

Your telling me you enjoy the crappy quality of a you tube video. Would you pay that price for a Music video with a higher resolution? You tube is free because no one in their right mind should pay to see pixelated videos. One thing you need to realize is that the computer monitor has been a HD monitor. You could download a video that was higher res then SD TV. I have no idea why youtube style video are popular venue fof media for entertainment. It is take 3 steps back when everything is going HD. You bought a HD tv but watch Youtube videos at full screen on you monitor that is larger than the 1080max your tv does. You tube for me is like a free low res crappy preview of something I would want to watch and would obtain elseware...........Not to mention the audio getting butchered.

I am not bashing you just everyone in the general thinking terms.

I'm not offended, but I think you misunderstood what I was saying. When I said "I have TubeTV," I meant I use the program called TubeTV, which is a free program that downloads and converts YouTube videos for iTunes. I generally watch videos on my 5.5G iPod video, so the quality difference is somewhat negligible. However, I have downloaded a few music videos and some episodes of The Office (which has been discontinued thanks to NBC's desire to raise prices and make a profit off iPod hardware sales) and the increase in video and audio quality is very noticeable on my 15" PowerBook G4. Also, YouTube is moving it's video library to H.264 for the iPhone and AppleTV, so quality is getting better.

You have no idea why YouTube is popular? It's free, user-submitted content that's in many cases more entertaining than what's on TV or in theaters. It's not trying to be an HD video service b/c then videos would take forever to load and the general public doesn't care that much about true HD. HD has been drumed up by different companies and movie studios to get consumers to buy the movies they already own again in higher-quality, higher-DRMed formats (HD-DVD and Blu-ray). I'm not saying I don't want an HDTV and HD content to watch on it, I'm saying that most people who do have HDTVs aren't watching HD content on them. You can read THIS article to see where I'm coming from.

No problem Numberzz.

I agree with Nat, most people don't really care for HD. Like I have an HDTV but I don't really care to watch HD programming on it. Oh wow the picture's slightly sharper, that doesn't justify a $40 hike up in my cable bill. The only things I watch that are HD are Showtime shows. And that's because I download them and Showtime's all HD now.

And as for why YouTube is popular, have you like never been on it at all? It's a free library of videos that you can basically find anything in. So what that it's not HD. Only tech-geeks really care for HD (I don't mean that offensively, I am kinda one myself). Although I do agree with you that watching YouTube video fullscreen is terrible.

Back on topic, I never bought iTunes music videos. I just YouTube them to watch them. I don't really see a point in having music videos when you can just find them on the net and watch them.

Hi Numberzz:

It's funny how you mentioned the change in prices. I assumed it was just the music video(s) I was looking at had differing prices. Yesterday, I bought Shakira - Whenever, Wherever for $1.99 from the iTunes Store. Then I was pleasantly suprised to find Jack Johnson - Upside Down for only $1.49 (I thought it was just Jack Johnson's videos that were $1.49).

In the end, I decided not to get the Jack Johnson video because I already had the video on Curious George DVD. The version on the DVD even had Sing-Along text. I used HandBrake to rip and convert the file to MP4.

Now I play both videos in Front Row. I haven't figured out a way to transfer purchased videos (M4V) to DVD but I'll probably be getting an HDTV next year anyways.

--danyel

Now I play both videos in Front Row. I haven't figured out a way to transfer purchased videos (M4V) to DVD but I'll probably be getting an HDTV next year anyways.

http://www.dvd-tool.com/convert-m4v-to-avi-mpeg.html

Hi Power_Mac:

I tried using TuneBite for Windows, but I could never get it to work properly.

What I'm really looking for is software for the Mac that can do this (so I won't have to go into Windows).

--danyel