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Remember the iTunes $.99 rental of the week? This week, they started offering something a little better, but more expensive. Apple launched the iTunes $5 movie of the week. Until next Tuesday (November 18, 2008), the following movies are on sale: Want to drag a file to another folder and copy it instead of moving it? Press the Option key when you drag that file and it'll be duplicated rather than moved entirely.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Nick said 9:10AM on 11-13-2008
Uh... 99 cent rentals have not been discontinued, this week the 99-cent rental movie of the week is Mission: Impossible.
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Cameron said 9:20AM on 11-13-2008
You left off the option for "I'm not renting/buying any movie unless it's close-captioned"
Seriously, as a hearing impaired Apple user I have been severely disappointed by the lack of CC or Subtitled movies in iTunes. Why should I download when only the DVD has the options I need to enjoy the movie?
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Blu-Sam said 10:46AM on 11-13-2008
Agree.
So far, I see there is "Air America" with CC available. *sigh*
Tim said 7:55PM on 11-13-2008
Honestly, I'm still very disappointed in Apple for supporting captioning more. They made a big deal about updating Quicktime a few years ago to include subtitling/captioning. Its not that hard to caption the movies.
So what is it that keeps them from attaching them to more of their catalog?
My guess is costs- or laziness.
Until they get with it, I'll continue to boycott buying movies and music from Apple's iTunes store.
mex said 9:26AM on 11-13-2008
If iTunes and movies makers finally will open an EU store the volume of video renting (especially TV serial) will be HUGE as well the Apple TV sells, please Apple move on with video on WHOLE EUROPE!
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Kevin said 9:29AM on 11-13-2008
Discontinue?? I just rented Mission Impossible a couple days ago...
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CaptainWrong said 9:33AM on 11-13-2008
Depends.
I blogged about this yesterday. Seems like this is a bit of a reaction to Amazon, who on the music side, have a deal of the day (anywhere from .99 to 3.99) and five for $5 on Fridays. I've bought a lot of stuff from Amazon that I wouldn't have otherwise at the lower end of that price spectrum. Plus the selection has been pretty interesting (obscure classics, new releases, customer selections.) There's also the fact that they're all 256kbp and DRM free where as most of the albums Apple is selling right now aren't.
So that's my thing: if the selection gets a little more interesting, the price goes lower and they go to iTunes Plus, I'll probably buy more stuff that I could see myself doing if it continues in the direction it's going now.
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Andrew said 9:55AM on 11-13-2008
I have rented a few $0.99 rentals in the past, but I refuse to actually purchase a movie because of the DRM that Apple puts on them.
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Mark said 6:14AM on 11-14-2008
Agreed. I also don't buy much content on iTunes, movies, tv shows or music because of the DRM (and the crappy music quality for 80% of their catalog).
When Apple finally goes DRM free and much better quality on their music (224kb VBR minimum for their aac format) then I'll buy more from them. Till then, it's other sources.
Ian said 10:26AM on 11-13-2008
No love for us Canucks with this offer, that I can see. Although T2 is on sale at $4.99, but no mention of this offer anywhere in the store.
We do have the weekly .99 movie rentals, but apparently they have different titles for the CDN store - this week's special is "things you can tell just by looking at her". Ugh.
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apples said 1:05PM on 11-13-2008
The offer is there, it's just called "Under $5 movie of the week". being singular, and this week it's T2.
mark said 10:57AM on 11-13-2008
Gee, thanks for the discounts on the 10-15 year old movies. You have successfully recreated the online version of a bargain bin.
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Nathan said 11:07AM on 11-13-2008
Much like the 99cent rentals, are there RSS feeds that list these deals? If not, can some awesomely nerdy person out there create one?
That'd be awesome.
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XIV said 9:37PM on 11-13-2008
For the 99 cent rental : http://www.99rental.com/
Ben H said 11:22AM on 11-13-2008
First four movies have the Governator in them? I smell a conspiracy.
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colouroflight said 12:01PM on 11-13-2008
$5 is a "discount" for a heavily-compressed, DRM-infected digital file?
What a rip.
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Fred said 12:12PM on 11-13-2008
If you're already caught up in the iTunes/iPod ecosystem why does it matter?
matipl said 2:19PM on 11-13-2008
great news! thanks for info
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Matt2K said 7:50AM on 12-02-2008
I have a ps3 and a Xbox360 and I'm looking hard at the wd tv media device, I don't own the very limited, without hacking, and overpriced Apple TV, and as far as I know, I can't play any iTunes video on these devices due to DRM, but I can go to my local walmart and buy all the movies I see in the list for $5 or buy them used from amazon, or hit my local mom and pop video store that rents 5 movies for 5 days for 5 dollars, New Movie rentals excluded, I think apple is losing its vision, When western Digital has created a Device that allows you to plug in any external hard drive no matter formate and play any type of video, including mkv for about $100 dollars but apple will not allow its Apple TV customers to use the USB port on the back for the same thing when a lot of them payed over $300 is Incredible.
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Colin ZeteBOy said 9:39AM on 11-14-2008
Hulu is very nice, however they only stream to the US so what's up with that. I'm in Canada...what are we now, a foreign country???
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