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Apple Premieres Movies on the iTunes Store in UK and Canada
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Posted by: Fran
Apple today announced that movies from major film studios including 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Entertainment, MGM, Sony Pictures Television International and Lionsgate UK are now available on the iTunes Store in the UK and Canada. There are over 700 films in the UK and 1200 in Canada available for rent or purchase, with titles available for purchase on the same day as their DVD release, including favorites such as "Hitman", "I Am Legend", "National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets" and "Into the Wild". iTunes Movie Rentals also features over 100 high definition titles in the UK and Canada for Apple TV.
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http://www.123macmini.com/news/story/962.html
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Yvan256
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Maybe this will finally give me the incentive to complete the CinnaMount TV.
Maybe I should run a poll on TV sizes... 
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| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 8:58 am Post subject: |
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| Finally! It was getting harder and harder to find less expensive gift certificates from the likes of iTunesShop. |
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jimmybt
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at last... now I can use my Apple TV for more than just video podcasts
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WheelSpinners
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48 hour movie rentals? I might have to move to Canada or the UK. 
When are we getting those? |
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Why is it so expensive? I need an incentive not to have a physical product, Amazon and Play sell all the films much cheaper and I get a pretty box to look at.
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Mr.187
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They don't seem to be showing up in ATV, is rental only via itunes?
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lloyd1450
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i thought they were going to offer HD rentals through iTunes not just through the Apple TV.
That was going to be one of the main features for me... although going by the prices it may not be that cheap :S
I would also have to agree with trustory that Amazon and Play offer much better deals than this for the full physical copy.
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Mr.187
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They are there now,
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And as usual the Brits pay double what the rest of the world pays. Mind you, glad its here though.
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| trustory wrote: | | Why is it so expensive? I need an incentive not to have a physical product, Amazon and Play sell all the films much cheaper and I get a pretty box to look at. |
Word! I get rentals, but I'll never understand why people buy the downloads. I would rather have the physical DVD every day of the week, especially for the same amount of money. Now, if you could burn them, it might be a different story. |
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sucks that its only hd on appletv...my mini is connected directly to my TV, its the reason I got it!
very annoying:( |
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| cjb110 wrote: | sucks that its only hd on appletv...my mini is connected directly to my TV, its the reason I got it!
very annoying:( |
It sucks for now, but I have a feeling that HD rentals will come over sooner or later. I think they're just trying to boost Apple TV sales with them at this time. They also need something on the computer desktop to compete with Blu-ray, since it doesn't look like they can come to an agreement with Sony about selling read/write Blu-ray drives or something like that. I'm pretty sure that's what I read somewhere. |
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