MGM and United Artists Join iTunes Store
Popular MGM Titles include (iTunes links) Mad Max, Bulletproof Monk, Rocky, Pieces of April, The Thomas Crown Affair, Dances with Wolves, and Robocop. Meanwhile, only one United Artists movie (Ronin) has been added so far.
United Artists and MGM have now joined Lionsgate, Paramount and Disney in selling movies on Apple's iTunes Store. With the release of the Apple TV, additional movie content for the iTunes Store has likely become a priority for Apple. When the iTunes Movie sales originally launched, Disney was the only studio that had participated. There had been rumors that Wal-mart and other retailers were threatened by Apple's entry into the movie-market. Even now, these new studio's movies appear to represent older "catalog" movies, rather than "new" releases.
An official press release from Apple should be expected later today.
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movies just added include Robocop, Mad Max, Foxy Brown, Coffy, Rocky, Ronin, Bulletproof Monk, Dances with Wolves, The Thomas Crown Affair (1999 version) and many others.
so far it looks to be the same deal as Lionsgate and Paramount, with no new releases. but it's definitely good to see the number of movies available increasing.
Front Page News for sure, Arn!!!
i hope theres a way for us to get some US shows (canada tv is umm...)
Or is this a studio requirement so that people who want the better quality will need to buy the DVDs for more, and for BEST quality, the even more expensive Blu-ray or HD-DVDs?
Always nice to see itunes get more content either way, just wish it were HD.
-Brian
Yup, they're showing up on my iTunes as well! I really hope Apple gets a move on a rental system before the end of 2007...:(
Front Page News for sure, Arn!!!
Me too on the rental thing. I really doubt I'll ever buy a movie from iTunes because (unlike with music) I very rarely watch movies more than once, but I rent them often and the convenience of renting a movie and immediately watching it through my AppleTV would be hard to beat.
forget renting, it's all about HD. Apple touting ?TV on EDTV and HDTVs that are all capable of at least 720p, but the only content form itunes is the Washington Post podcast. Let's go apple. If I'm gonna pay 10-15 bucks for a digital copy, I want HD. YOu said HD was the future 2 years ago but won't release HD content yet.
Or is this a studio requirement so that people who want the better quality will need to buy the DVDs for more, and for BEST quality, the even more expensive Blu-ray or HD-DVDs?
Always nice to see itunes get more content either way, just wish it were HD.
-Brian
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forget renting, it's all about HD. Apple touting ?TV on EDTV and HDTVs that are all capable of at least 720p, but the only content form itunes is the Washington Post podcast. Let's go apple. If I'm gonna pay 10-15 bucks for a digital copy, I want HD. YOu said HD was the future 2 years ago but won't release HD content yet.
Or is this a studio requirement so that people who want the better quality will need to buy the DVDs for more, and for BEST quality, the even more expensive Blu-ray or HD-DVDs?
Always nice to see itunes get more content either way, just wish it were HD.
-Brian
i would guess it's a studio issue. that being said, apple (steve) need to get on this.. now! if apple can get HD movies on iTunes, it could truely wipe out blueray/hd-dvd sales. why pay $500-$1000 for a HD disc player, when you can pay $300 for an Apple TV which does much much more. now is the time to take advantage of the blueray/hd-dvd format war.
to those that claim bandwidth costs are too high, i'd like to throw out a guess that the cost of producing and shipping a disc is very close to the cost of streaming 4-6GB of data. whatever difference there is, should be made up in the lack of returns and damaged product.
yes, it must be a studio issue. or an apple timing issue, they may not think they NEED to release HD content yet. but i believe now is the perfect time.
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