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Pass. It'll never be cheaper than Netflix unless the have a similar subscription plan.

I love it when a plan comes together

@ dukemeiser

If they DO have a subscription plan, I'll cancel my Netflix and purchase an Apple TV this week. Man, that would be fantastic.

Zorrin Meyer - the Voice of No Podcast At All

I'll buy HD content but not the lower res stuff Apple currently offers. Well, I would buy more but only if it was HD.

@ Zorrin

Count me in as well. So long to Blockbuster Online!

Considering the difficulting in distributing TV shows in Canada, I certainly hope this announcement for movie rentals IS offered in Canada.

Please movie rentals

I buy my music, but do not like buying a movie, I may watch once or twice

This would complement a full screen iPod HD.

I haven't taken to downloading movies off of iTunes. TV shows yes, movies no.

These are the reasons:

1: Movies watched once usually, so renting is the way to go. Watch more for substantially less money. AKA: Netflix!!!

2: Downloads clogs the FSCK out of hard drives, vs TV shows which do only in large quantities. So I rather have my movies on a DVD, where it's easily transportable between machines.

3: Movies on DVD in original quality with jacket has resale value. Burned lower quality DVD's from iTunes does not. (unless they are crooks then they want it cheap because they know you can burn another copy)

4: Time. Time to download movies is longer, then it takes precious storage space on DVD's which takes time to burn, label and store. I have a life and a girlfriend, if I wanted to live in my parents basement as a lifer virgin I would have gotten a POS Windows PC.

So renting rules for movies. Buying perhaps for TV shows. Buying definably for music. For me that is.

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i read this on some other website that they will also bring ringtone feature to itunes
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GIVE ME 1080P OR GIVE ME DEATH APPLE!!!

dukemeister: "Pass. It'll never be cheaper than Netflix unless the have a similar subscription plan."
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In other words, it'll never be cheaper than Netlifx unless it's cheaper than Netflix.

September 5th is gonna be huge if all these rumored goodies actually appear. HD content, movie rentals, new iPods, WiFi iTunes downloads... Yum.

"GIVE ME 1080P OR GIVE ME DEATH APPLE!!!", says Retarded_baboon


Well....someone is going to abandon the earthly living, I presume

Or perhaps this one is the "Year of the HD". The True HD, I mean

Oh, and add the Beatles in iTS to the list, too.

I prefer glossy.

Thanks for the link!
I wrote Apple and told them I prefer glossy.

dukemeiser, keep that postman busy, someone has to do it.

why would they have released video dl in uk if they were about to swop to HD? makes no sense

Looks like Apple is about to throw their hat into the HD content war.

Eh. Nice offering I suppose, but I still prefer buying the physical media. I like the extras like director or actor commentary over the movie - watch the movie at home on big screen with surround sound, and watch it commentary while traveling on the laptop. Apple will announce new HW before Christmas - maybe not September 5, but no later than early November so layaway's at BestBuy and Circuit City can occur. Give me the real iPod video that we've all been talking about!!

Director and actor commentary? What are there, 4 or 5 movies a year worth having all that crap?

I can understand wanting the classics on DVD but I don't even keep the movies I download. I'd hate to have purchased "Captivity" for example.

The only way you're getting folks like me to pay for this garbage is to provide cheap rentals and/or a nice subscription service. I don't want or need to own the lackluster movies they're producing today. I want to watch once for as cheap as humanly possible and then dump it off my computer and hopefully out of my head. Until I get that from Apple, it's five fingers for me.

This is one rumor that makes perfect sense. it was a bit odd that you could make home movies with iMovie and post them as HD (or 'better than DVD quality'), but the stuff you buy from iTunes is only SD.

In unrelated news, AppleTVs just doubled ther sales.

From everything (what little of it there is) that has been shown so far, the Sept 5 get together is clearly about music, so I wouldn't be expecting anything other than a strictly music related annoucement.

New iPod(s) = Almost a 100% guarantee.

Beatles (or Sony & Cher ) catalog = HIghly possible

HD content on iTunes = Unlikely

Rentals (of any kind) on iTunes = Outlook cloudy. Try again. (Like...when time stops)

Of course, this is Apple we're talking about, so really, who knows?

"...Until I get that from Apple, it's five fingers for me."

So... you're saying you steal?

And BTW, wasn't there an annoucement sometime ago (either late last year or early this year) that Apple and Akamai had either parted ways or cut back on their activities together?

I'm sure I read something like that, somewhere.

Netflix sucks! I used Greencine for a while and they were great. Their selection isn't as good as Netflix or Blockbuster. Greencine doesn't throttle and that's why I used them.

If Apple can convince the movie industry to let them rent content, I'll get an AppleTV next week.

I imagine it will start out just as everything else with video on iTunes, as Disney and one or two more studios only, and then expand.

It really would be nice to rent from a company you trust without leaving the house. I never would consider PPV or ordering movies from DirecTV or a cable company. They just seem to shady and I would like to be able to watch it more than once during the rental period.

They need to find a way to package the DVD add-ons to movie downloads... because that's the one thing I miss on iTunes and even HBO/Showtime... I love outtake reels, and director commentary... Downloading seems to just be focused on delivering the movie, period. Now with BluRay, there's so much more data that can be added.... I think I'm going to stick with Netflix and just use iTunes movie downloads in a pinch.

Expectations for this event are awfully high. Why don't we just go all the way and say that Apple will announce:

-The iPhone will now work with any carrier, makes calls via Skype, and will let you install your own applications on it.

-.Mac is now free and gives you 15 TB of storage space.

- Leopard will run Windows applications without a copy of Windows, and is authorized for use on non-Apple hardware

-Apple anticipates folding in 18 months because they can't make any money off of any of these things.

80% of people or more dont give a fig about DVD extras.
Directors commentary?!?!
Yes, it is totally necessary for great classics that will be be viewed ages from now-great titles like "You Got Served", "The New Guy".

I have never listened to a single commentary on DVD nor has anyone I know.

I don't rent movies- I buy them. BTW-Adding HBO content to iTunes would be nice.

They could do with an aTV that supported connections to old TVs (SCART & RCA at crummy resolutions only) as well HDMI, to help the majority of users who are not updating their old TVs yet, but want to get onto the digital download wave.