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February 27, 2007

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It doesn’t sound like a podcast to me, but what do I know?

Posted Feb. 27, ’07, 10:44 AM PT by Kate Marshall
Category | Video

Lord of the RingsI’ll admit that there are some things in life which confuse me—my cat’s penchant for falling off my desk comes to mind. The most recent addition to the list of Things That Bother Kate is Apple’s classification of movie trailers. Example: I was feeling nostalgic so I went to Apple’s movie trailer page and searched for Lord of the Rings trailers—hey, you spend your snowy afternoons in PA your way and let me spend them in mine. Lo and behold, a trailer for Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring can be found at the bottom this page; clicking on it opens the iTunes Store. You can watch it right there, or you can download it by clicking on the “Get Episode” button; if you do that, it shows up in the podcasts section of iTunes.

The heck? I can understand that when some movie trailers are tailored for your iPod—Spider-Man 3, Amazing Grace, and The Simpsons Movie, I’m looking in your direction—it makes sense for those trailers to open in iTunes. I just don’t get the “let’s classify them as ‘podcasts’ thing.”

Then again, I was probably one of the few people who saw Bridge to Terabithia the other day and wanted to know why Jess didn’t just build the stupid bridge earlier, so what do I know? *

(*Parents, please: Read the book before taking your little children to the movie. It just saves everyone a lot of angst and angry-letter-writing)


5 Comments

Philippe Azimzadeh said:

Hi Kate, are you a new MacUser blogger?

February 27, 2007 1:03 PM
Anon. said:

It's simple really: They're subscriptions.

The feed for a given movie is updated as new trailer-type videos are made available (teasers, various theatrical trailers, and I think TV spots as well). It's actually kind of convenient if you're interested in a particular movie.

You may not have noticed this because you went looking at an older movie's trailers.

I can see how it could be confusing WRT some definitions of the term "podcast," but for others it makes perfect sense.

February 27, 2007 1:57 PM
Kate said:

Interesting suggestion about movie trailers as subscriptions.

And yes, I did just start at MacUser. Hi all.

February 27, 2007 4:54 PM
Moe said:

Well, whatdayaknow.... Hi Kate, you sound hmmm, nice. How about a Bio, introduction. Sup guys, what's going on over there? I'm Moe and I like taking long walks and Apple products. We already have one in common. : )

February 28, 2007 6:47 AM
Maggles said:

But what if one doesn't want every trailer to nancy down the pike?

February 28, 2007 2:02 PM

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