Videos in iTMS

Scott mentioned this yesterday, while discussing the release of iTunes 4.8, but I thought I'd highlight it a bit, because I actually took the time to play with it and I think it is really cool. I just bought the new Gorillaz' Feel Good INC single on the iTMS for $0.99, and along with the single music file came 4 animated videos.

It looks like iTunes may just become my new video collection database and organizer (you can also drag pdf files in there if you want), because I really like the new interface. You can see in the pic above a screen grab from the video Game of Death playing in small where the album artwork is normally displayed. If you simply play the song, it comes up full screen (and honestly, looks a little fuzzy). If you exit out of full screen (by hitting the Escape key) the video starts playing in small like the picture above. If you click on that playing video, it opens up at normal size. See after the jump for an example of this window.
gorillaz 2

Very cool. Click again to go full screen again. I like it!

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Scott mentioned this yesterday, while discussing the release of iTunes 4.8, but I thought I'd highlight it a bit, because I actually took...

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Dennis Österberg

this aint working for swedish customers, we just got (10 may) ITMS, and the new video function aint working. It seems that we will wait for that 2 years, again.. =( Apple, WHY, why apple? Dont we deserve music videos, dont you care for us sweds? we are neutral, we love everyone, we are not like french, hate everyone but themselves.. =)

May 11 2005 at 5:30 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dustin Tanner

I think this is pretty cool, and If you run the movies trough PSPWare, you CAN watch them on you PSP. They are the perfect size for the PSP screen and look great. I really love this site and this is my first post, so keep up the good work. But what is up with the Microsucks advertising????

May 11 2005 at 2:13 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dominic Arenas

Gorillaz and Apple, together at last. Man, I wish I hadn't bought the single off of itunes the day it was released. Wait, man, wait!!!

May 10 2005 at 11:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

iMatt

A lot of people think that downloadable movies are the next logical step for Apple--but I think that iTunes 4.8 is the beginning of the iTunes music video store--a buck or so for the latest music video from U2, 50 Cent, or whatever. Bring it on.

May 10 2005 at 9:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

john

combine this and the get a music video from itunes automator script mentioned a few posts back as i have and you can build a nice collection of music videos in itunes!

May 10 2005 at 6:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jeremiah

HA! I had just sent you guys an email on this. So I will refresh it here. Apparently you can create a playlist and drag and drop videos/movies of type ".mov" and ".mp4" and watch them within that little window. The sucky thing comes when you try and watch your newly imported video full screen. The quality of the imported video at full screen depends completely on how it was compressed to begin with. Needless to say, the videos that I added to my "video" playlist in iTunes, for my PSP and P910 phone are a little grainy full screen, but look fine for smaller, mobile devices. Just thought I would pass this along. If "iGetMovies" gets fixed then all of the movie trailers and videos will be DRM'd free :P

May 10 2005 at 6:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply