News Corp. won't pull videos from iTunes

President Peter Chernin says the media giant has no dispute with Apple, though it would like a bigger voice in pricing its shows.

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This just in:

Marty Casey and the Love Hammers, U2, Bjork, Dr. Hook, Eric
Claption, The Allman Brothers, Feist, Bannannarama, The Monkees,
and 25,000 other artists and organizations announce that not only
will they not withdraw their music from the iTunes Music Store, but
the sun will rise in the east tomorrow, peanut butter will be sticky
and the Rob Enderle "Group" will continue to be him and his
adoring wife.

[Heebee Jeebies]

The problem is...

"Right now we have a perfectly good relationship with Apple," Chernin told Reuters. "But let me say this, we're the ones who should determine what the fair price for our product is, not Apple."

The problem with that is all of Hollywood thinks their stuff is jewel encrusted gold when in fact it is just crusted. $1.99 per episode is already outrageous considering the quality, considering you can't easily burn to to DVD for watching on TV, etc.

Movies in iTunes are even worse. Half the cost of a DVD for less than half the video quality, no DVD burning, poor sound, no extras, etc.

Give me a break. Hollywood's greed needs to end. However, I don't think Apple will be the one to do it. If only consumers would stop buying this junk at high prices like lemmings off a cliff. We are the ones that should be in control, we are the ones that should set prices. But, no consumers are lemmings.

Robert

[HoboCat]

News Corp. won't pull videos from iTunes.

Now you've you've got some big boys "Playing nice!". Obviously News Corp & Apple know what they're doing.

You got some problems? Work them out as time goes by. Don't: Not give yourself a chance to start off with.

Well done, says I!