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Will iTunes Plus also allow you to upgrade videos?

Right now, iTunes Plus allows you to upgrade tracks and music videos. So what about TV shows or movies? If Apple started offering High Definition versions, would you upgrade your existing library? After all, it's got to look good on your new Apple TV, right? Or do you think you're already paying a premium price for iTunes content? And you're not even getting the director's commentaries! Let us know what you think of a possible iTunes Plus Video offering in the following poll and in the comments.

Would you pay more for iTunes Video Plus?
If it's not too much. Say a buck more for movies.
Not sure.
No way. I'm already paying as much as a DVD and I don't even get extras!
Other (Let us know in the comments)
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SirCrumpet

Hell, I'd be happy to just have videos in the first place over here in Australia...

June 08 2007 at 2:47 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Will

It already does. Atleast for music videos. I was prompted to upgrade a music video that I purchased a while back. And I did. It is definitely bigger pixel-wise but the actually quality of the video is pretty much the same.

June 06 2007 at 9:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kimo

Speaking of video........ I was watching TV today and noticed that a new Pixar movie will be release on June 29..... hmmmmmmmmm. :-)

June 06 2007 at 9:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mike

Can't get videos... dont care one way or the other, theres no or very little video content in the EU so dont care...

June 06 2007 at 8:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
dogarms

In Australia, our biggest issue is the AMOUNT we can download, not the speed at which we can download it.

I have a 10Gb cap plan, so I would never buy a movie off the iTunes Store in Australia. This is simply because it would cost me ~$20 to buy it from iTunes, and then a quarter of my monthly broadband allowance ($60p/m, so roughly $15) to actually recieve it. Why do that when I could go down the store and get it on DVD and not waste my bandwidth allowance?

Australia won't be ready for online media distribution in any form until they sort out their telecommunications industry. The first step is UNCAPPING OUR FREAKING PLANS.

June 06 2007 at 8:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
VoxMatt

I find myself siding with many of the commenters. HD files will be HUGE, but, outside that fact, I would definitely pay as much as $5 more for HD movies and maybe as much as $10.

I am SO sick of digging through DVD boxes just to find the DVD's in some other DVD's box. Or putting in one of my favorite DVDs and finding it scratched up. Not only would I pay for a way to bring myself into the HD world WITHOUT buying a new player, but I'd pay for the convenience of a digital instead of physical library. The current iTunes movie store is crippled because it doesn't even live up to DVD quality, much less HD quality.

But back to the size thing... a while ago I read a column about using the networked Apple TVs as a sort of defacto torrent seeding mechanism. With all the potential duplicate copies of filed stored on these networked mini-computers, why not use them for networked distribution? Maybe even pre-cache partial movies automatically to the Apple TV drive in anticipation of a user's purchase? (that last one won't happen) But most importantly Apple needs to allow users to download movie copies multiple times to the same account. Even if I get the bandwidth to download these suckers, I'm going to run out of room eventually; why not allow me to use the files Apple already has? Or even stream purchased movies from Apple?

Sorry, this got long...

June 06 2007 at 7:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Vijay Arunkumar

I would upgrade if the total cost of the HD Download is 14.99 or below. (That is upto $5 upgrade price for 9.99 movies, and 3 bucks for 12.99 movies).

June 06 2007 at 7:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
robsky

I'd pay a € to upgrade my ipod games to work on itv.

June 06 2007 at 7:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris

Right now living in the UK, I have no bloody content to upgrade! C'Mon Apple! Impatient, irritated limeys at your door, is not something you want.

June 06 2007 at 6:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Yakov Chodosh

if itunes were to use a bittorrent type system, downloads would be fast.

June 06 2007 at 6:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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