First full length movie available in iTunes
It is a made for TV movie (the Disney Channel specifically) but it is still a movie, darn it. And a musical at
that!High School Musical is now available for download from the iTunes Music Store. Clocking in at one hour and forty minutes, this rates as a movie to me, though I am not sure I actually want to see it. For only $1.99 you can watch as two kids from opposite ends of the spectrum forge a friendship in song, and really can you put a price on that (other than the two dollar price that has already been assigned to it)?
Thanks to everyone who sent this in.
Update: It looks like Apple took High School Musical down for awhile, but as of 9:17PM EST it in availble via the link in this post for a new price of $9.99. What's up with that?
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Thomas said 9:40AM on 3-14-2006
It's gotta start somewhere. One movie down, many to go.
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Nate Orloff said 9:47AM on 3-14-2006
omg I so sent you guys that link last night :D
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J.J. said 10:34AM on 3-14-2006
My kids ( 8 year-old girl and 7 year-old boy) absolutely love this movie. I had to look for it on Bittorrent sites for 10 days before it showed up on one of them. Then, it took me all night to d/l it. Thanks iTunes !!!!
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kenji said 11:16AM on 3-14-2006
If look under the Music Video categories you can also just download individual scenes also for 1.99 each. Strange.
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Earnest Pettie said 11:25AM on 3-14-2006
This is going to be huge. That musical garners huge ratings for Disney every time it airs, and the soundtrack went to number one on Billboard with no radio support. I think Disney was very smart to send this to Itunes.
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JDog said 11:36AM on 3-14-2006
OK .. So how can I rip this video to DVD?
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Damon Law said 1:02PM on 3-14-2006
Sci Fi had 4 full length Battlestar Galactica mini series movies up a long while back...
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Chadonna said 3:18PM on 3-14-2006
Just tried to download High School Musical (the entire movie), but I got a message saying that it's no longer available. :(
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Daniel said 3:27PM on 3-14-2006
So ... how long does it take to download?
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James said 4:51PM on 3-14-2006
it says thats its no longer avalible in the U.S. store. what happened?
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Ky said 4:57PM on 3-14-2006
Wait, I thought you couldn't download it in full on iTunes. I just checked and they only have a few of the musical numbers at $1.99 each. Where can I download the full movie?
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Kenny Mc said 6:30PM on 3-14-2006
I can't find it in the music store either, but i did notice an advertisement for it on the Apple - iPod/iTunes Tab....
very very curious...
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Mac Diva said 9:10PM on 3-14-2006
Ditto! I had heard about "High School Musical" and would download the movie, being a fan of "Fame." But, it isn't on iTMS presently.
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Colin said 11:27PM on 3-14-2006
That's cute. This movie was just on Family channel as a karaoke sing along this weekend.
It's pure cheese, and nothing how I remember high school, but when you're deathly hungover, it's actually kinda fun to watch.
Aside from that, $1.99 per scene of a movie is actually a pretty cool idea! I'd pay $1.99 for the car chase scene from The French Connection. (Really, who doesn't love a good "real" car chase? None of this "Fast and the Furious" CGI junk!)
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Jonathan said 12:04AM on 3-15-2006
now appearing in the iTMS tv show mainpage: High School Musical Full Length Musical and Music Videos. too bad the link from that picture has no full length movie in sight
btw when i saw this news this morning i went ahead and bought it for .... $1.99
hehe to all the snickering people that have to now purchase it for $9.99 which is way to much for it...
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Kevin said 2:47AM on 3-15-2006
Wake me up when they get to REAL movie musicals (Oklahoma, The Music Man, West Side Story...)
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Mitch Aunger said 8:29AM on 3-15-2006
Oh man, i would have gifted it to my girls at $1.99 - they seem to really like it - but now it's $9.99 - no way i'm payin that much man!
My father used to say "He who hesitates is lost" - i guess that is me :)
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