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Apple unveils more video on the UK iTunes Store

by Nik Fletcher Jan 23rd 2008 at 7:30PM

Rejoice UK readers -- there's more overpriced easily accessible video programming available on our delectable iTunes Store: Wallace and Gromit (which I'll confess to buying right now - a poor show of form, given my loathing of iTunes' DRM love-in) and a whole plethora of Warner Bros content consisting of:
  • Friends
  • Wonder Woman
  • V: The Complete Series
  • Babylon 5
  • West Wing
  • The Jetsons
  • The Flintstones
  • Martin
Costing you a mere £1.89 (that's US$3.60 -- yes, more than our American brethren pay) per episode, if you're dying for something else to watch on your iPod or iPhone then you can finally grab some more video content from iTunes. As ever, movies continue to be missing in action, but there's hope given that Steve Jobs would 'love' to get iTunes rental worldwide during 2008.

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lol

yeah what is going on apple? There's barely anything in the uk store. If there was some worthwhile stuff on there like simpsons/futurama ,and some classic stuff like blackadder, black books etc. etc; that was worth buying (the kind of stuff you'd keep becuase you'd watch it more than once) then I'd download loads, but there's barely anything.
I'm just hoping that the new series of doctor-who will be put up when it comes out, seen as torchwood is up.


on that note, I've been trying to find a legal mp4 tv/movie site but they seem non existent... does anyone know of one?

All I can find is dodgy ones and sites complaining about people not using legal ones.... which don't seem to exist so is it no wonder?

March 18 2008 at 7:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jin

can someone please explain why apple have not added any movies to UK iTunes? are there legal issues explaining this delay?

January 24 2008 at 7:51 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tony Hoyle

The problem is for the price of one episode I can go down to my local video shop and hire the DVD, with multiple episodes

A more legal move would be to buy it - still cheaper than itunes (but note that it's still illegal to rip a CD/DVD into itunes in the UK.. not that most of the population (a) realize, or (b) care).

Give me a monthly subscription for unlimited rentals and I'd go for it.. that's what Amazon/Lovefilm/Tesco etc. are doing and it's a good deal. Per episode doesn't make any sense at all at those prices.

January 24 2008 at 6:48 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ben the Dog

Way to go Apple (or Record Labels, as the case may be and probably is). Jetsons? Flintstones? What planet are you people on (and more importantly, what year is it there?)

It's ZML.com for me until my iTunes store gets movies and/or you stop creating DVDs that I can't shift onto my ipod.

January 24 2008 at 2:54 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Stu J

I can understand if you are confused as to what year - I mean, Flintstones in the stone-age and Jetsons in the distant future ... it does get your brain-a-working!

On the note of the costing more than the US - It seems to me that if you subtract our tax of 17.5% then we are paying on a par (well, close to) with what the US guys & gals spend.

stu

January 24 2008 at 3:41 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
CMB

anyone know how to get around the problem of purchasing this from the uk site if I only have a us address

maybe it is elsewhere online???

January 23 2008 at 10:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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CMB

I found the new wallace and gromit video free at this site

http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/wallace_gromits_cracking_contraptions.php

January 23 2008 at 11:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
CajunLuke

Lucky Brits have Wallace & Gromit. I just ran to the US store to see if they were there, to no avail.

January 23 2008 at 10:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bob

im sticking with my american account :) hope it works with appletv software update when it comes out in the uk too.

January 23 2008 at 8:47 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Allister

At least you get something, here in Australia we are still floundering around at the 'Music Videos' level!

January 23 2008 at 8:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
frank

cracking!

January 23 2008 at 8:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Simon Arch

I didn't realise they were offering B5, but sure enough, there it is. $40/season for heavily compressed, low-resolution video with no extras, subtitles or alternate languages or $40 a season for DVDs I can rip and encode however I want, and which I can loan to friends, resell or play on ANY DVD player. Decisions, decisions...

January 23 2008 at 8:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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