iTunes offers weekly discounted movies/music albums

They already discontinued this. I think it ran for the last 3 weeks in November only. I was bummed because I thought it was a good deal....was a big fan. I downloaded 4 movies and 2 albums.

I posted something about this (just that I was sorry to see it go, nothing inflammatory at all)over on the iTunes discussion forums. The Gestapo either locked it or deleted it. It's still there on a Google search, but they won't let me read it. Jeez! Touchy much??

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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$5 is a "discount" for a heavily-compressed, DRM-infected digital file?

What a rip.

First four movies have the Governator in them? I smell a conspiracy.

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.

Gee, thanks for the discounts on the 10-15 year old movies. You have successfully recreated the online version of a bargain bin.

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.

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.

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.