Disney sells 5 million copies of Pixar's Cars in two days
Walt Disney Co. said Thursday it sold over 5 million DVD copies of Pixar's "Cars" in the first two days it was available for purchase at stores, putting the film on track to be the industryâs top seller in the U.S. during the 2006 calendar year.
By comparison, Disney said it sold almost 500,000 digital movie tracks through iTunes since making 75 of its titles available on the service a little less than two months ago. Earlier this week, it added "Cars" to iTunes along with "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," both of which are available as downloads for $12.99.
"We expect to see a holiday boost for Cars merchandise, which has been one of our biggest lines of the year, with retail sales around $1 billion," Disney chief executive Robert Iger told analysts during the company's fiscal fourth quarter conference call on Thursday.
Over 12 million ABC TV downloads via iTunes
Over the last year, approximately 85 million of the entertainment corp's TV shows, movies and short films have been played or downloaded on iTunes, disneychannel.com, and abc.com. In addition, Iger announced that approximately 12 million ABC TV programs have been purchased since October, 2005 via iTunes.
"We have done extremely well on the iTunes platform," he said. "We have launched on two other movie platforms and given some of the announcements that have been made this past week, we believe we will have opportunities to sell movies and television shows on many other new platforms."
Despite beating Wall Street's estimates and doubling profits from the year-ago quarter, shares of Disney fell $1.20 or more than 3.5 percent on Friday amid growth concerns over the 2007 calendar year.
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this is such good news for apple. with Disney doing well it can only mean that their relationship will get stronger. with the iTV, new n wireless protocol being shipped in the iMacs and laptops wireless video streaming with out buffering could be come reality. imagine setting up a movie to play from your laptop in your living room not having to wait . you press play video plays like with DVD and VCR now. itunes movie store is the real winner here. all we need now is for the telecom companies to get their act together so we can get higher resolution movies.
why would you download CARS for 12.99 when you can get the DVD for about the same price? The DVD Quality is better with no limitations of usage??? And you play it anywhere.
why would you download CARS for 12.99 when you can get the DVD for about the same price? The DVD Quality is better with no limitations of usage??? And you play it anywhere.
Because you can't get the DVD for the same price, the DVD quality being better is debatable (DVD has higher resolution but worse color), and the other two things you mentioned were the same thing.
why would you download CARS for 12.99 when you can get the DVD for about the same price? The DVD Quality is better with no limitations of usage??? And you play it anywhere.
convienence
why would you download CARS for 12.99 when you can get the DVD for about the same price? The DVD Quality is better with no limitations of usage??? And you play it anywhere.
Cars is $14.99, and that's on Amazon.com. If it's $14.99 on Amazon, it's must be even more in the shops.
/besides like music on iTunes it's because of convenience.