Aug 142008
Apple has finally gotten its act together and added movies to the New Zealand iTunes store. Most older films are available to both rent and download outright, and the selection seems pretty good if not totally complete. The prices are not too bad either, you can definitely do better but they are not outrageously high.
Still no TV episodes though – what’s up with that?
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Cool, at least that’s a start. I wonder if the DRM’d stuff will still stream via DLNA to my PS3? If so, this might become how I rent films. If not, Apple can suck my big one.
Not sure about streaming via DLNA, my guess is that it won’t work – iTunes uses bonjour for service discovery and some custom protocol for video streaming, but I could be wrong. It does make the AppleTV make a little more sense – not that I will be buying one.
The way rentals work is actually quite fair, but I would like to see them become cheaper than an actual DVD rental since their overheads per rental must be lower.
Personally, I don’t care about the movies so much, but buying TV episodes sounds great. There are plenty of shows I would be interested to view that either don’t make it to NZ, or are on at strange times. Spending $2:50 to watch a decent documentary or something doesn’t sound like too much hassle.
I don’t think Apple will be sucking your “big” one anytime soon. Their customer relationships are usually the other way around…