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That's Entertainment! MGM in iTunes
Today Apple announced that MGM will sell its catalog of older films at the US iTunes store. To kick things off, "Dances With Wolves," "Mad Max," "The Great Train Robbery," and "Rocky" should be available for purchase some time today. More titles will be added during the coming weeks. (MGM owns the largest movie library in the world.)
The movies will be distributed in the current "Near-DVD" resolution of 640x480, a fact which makes Apple TV owners cry. And ask why. Because if Apple were going to start offering High Def movies any time soon, why wouldn't they have MGM in on that announcement and make it an even bigger to do?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
flib juckson said 3:46PM on 4-11-2007
who cares! I will NEVER EVER buy a movie for download. renting, of course, is a different story.
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Jeremy said 4:10PM on 4-11-2007
Yeah. Rental pricing is what they need more than anything else, though HD would come a close second. But as long as they expect me to pay as much for it as I'd pay for a DVD, it's Amazon Unbox all the way.
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Sabon said 8:00PM on 4-11-2007
When I saw, "The Great Train Robbery," I was hoping they meant the very original one in the early 1900s. Bummer but it's one from 1979.
Note: The original was one of the very, VERY first movies ever made for the general public to see.
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JeffDM said 9:37AM on 4-12-2007
"near-DVD" resolution but with an encoding quality so poor that it's only better than the bootlegs made by re-encoding video. If Apple wasn't so stingy with the bitbucket then maybe I can consider their service worthwhile.
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