finally… FINALLY!!!!!
Well, well well… isn’t it a long road that the Aussies have to endure just to get movies into iTunes…, something that our American/Canadian and European counterparts have enjoyed for months and years!
Well finally here we are, there isn’t a great number of films as yet, similarly when TV Shows came to the Aussie store, but I’m sure as the MPAA copyrights get extended to International distribution.
Still its brought our store up to code now and finally where we can purchase movies online…
The question is, will anyone actually buy these? They come in at a price between $9.95 (Last Holiday) to about $24.95 (almost everything else) but here is the kicker…
Rental Films.
Looks like Apple has pushed even the rental of films into the Aussie iTunes store now too which start at $3.99 (The Transporter / Mars Attacks) to $5.99 (Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem).
I think Apple have broken the mold when releasing films online in this method, and its a step forward in the right direction, but when 90% of these films can be bought in store for either the same price or less on DVD / Blue-Ray then it has a far way to go before it takes over from the cheap wave of DVD releases we have today.
So I throw it open to the people, would you purchase / rent movies through iTunes?
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I’d rent - It’s an easy way of watching a film, my local video store is on the other end of town and I have to admit - I’m always forgetting to return movies on time.
Don’t know about purchasing. If they offered a way of being able to burn a backup to DVD, then I might. I don’t want an apple TV just for that, thankyou…
I’m not sure I’d even rent a movie to be honest, I’m not going to download over 1 gig of data just to watch it once or just a handful of times!
Internode just upped their limits. I now have 70 gig a month for no extra. I think I can risk a movie download ..
iiNet doesn’t count anything downloaded through the iTunes Store in your quota (or the new ABC iPlayer thing), but still the prices are too expensive. I might rent, but wouldn’t buy when they aren’t much cheaper than DVDs. Actually I rarely buy films on DVD either as I won’t rewatch a film more than once every couple of years unless it’s really really amazingly good - TV series maybe (but don’t get me started on the prices of TV shows on iTMS!)
I am with Tim a bit here. While I am stoked to see that movies are available I am not so happy that we pay through the nose for bandwidth and that is one factor in all this that can’t be ignored.
Tom… you suck. But I do agree about the price of the TV shows. Insane, esp for something that was free before it was on iTunes and has a lower distribution cost.
So Tim couldn’t wait for the newest Harry Potter movie? Who knew?!
I just buy the freakin DVD… A lot of movies movies drop in price a couple months after they’re released to DVD, so I just wait and buy them “pre-viewed” from places like Lackluster Video or wait until the price drops. I can also often get a video for $10 or $20 on the first day of DVD release…
None of this new-fangled downloading movies for me!
Wow…worth it? Hmm… The new iPhone on the other hand - it’s tops!!
Will I rent?
Will I bollocks!
Will I buy?
Bollocks to that too!
How’d you get the Pixar Short Films item listed? It doesn’t come up in mine…