Apple has announced that since it started selling videos 3 weeks ago, over 1 million have been downloaded.

Steve Jobs said, “Selling one million videos in less than 20 days strongly suggests there is a market for legal video downloads. Our next challenge is to broaden our content offerings, so that customers can enjoy watching more videos on their computers and new iPods.”

This is pretty impressive considering the anemic video selection on iTunes. Although I would say it should do more than “strongly suggest” that consumer want video downloads.

I would also be curious on how many video podcasts were downloaded during the same period.

UPDATE: Slate has good article called, “TV You’ll Want To Pay For”.