March 31, 2005
Sony Wants iTunes for Movies
That was pretty damn quick. One day after I lambasted Sony to make an iTunes for video files on the Sony PSP, the Senior Vice President of Sony Pictures said they will develop an iTunes for movies over the next year. I wonder if he reads First Adopter. It's fascinating as the guy used the exact analogy I did with Steve Jobs and iTunes. Good stuff, probably a coincidence.Michael Arrieta, senior vice president of Sony Pictures, said at a US Digital Hollywood conference that it wanted to create an "iTunes" for films. Films will be put onto flash memory for mobiles over the next year, said Mr Arrieta, and it will develop its digital download services for films.
"We want to set business models, pricing models, distribution models like (Apple chief Steve) Jobs did for music, but for the film industry," Mr Arrieta told Cnet news.
