HD Movies hit iTunes UK
Good news for Apple fans in the UK: Apple has finally added HD movies to the iTunes store. The selection seems to be rather limited for now. MacRumors notes that Twilight is among the more high-profile selections. Pricing works like this: movies that sell for £9.99 in standard definition are £12.99 in HD, while those priced at £6.99 for SD are selling for £7.99 in HD.Until now, HD movies were only available to rent in the UK. The Japanese market only received movies in iTunes last month (SD and HD) while in the U.S., Apple added HD movies to the iTunes Store in March of 2009.
Here's a shot of Eclipse in iTunes on the desktop.
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Good news for Apple fans in the UK: Apple has finally added HD movies to the iTunes store. The selection seems to be rather limited for...
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iTunes UK has had HD movies for sale for months, just not recent movies.
December 09 2010 at 8:11 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyand where is Australia in all of this? Seriously, our country is so far behind and the tariff on all of the store content is ridiculous! $24.99 for a new release movie (in SD) is just plain stupid.
December 08 2010 at 9:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhy would anyone download Kristen Staurts terrible acting in HD?
December 08 2010 at 7:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThey won't sell much with those prices. Has to be much cheaper than bluray as the hd download is no where near the bit-rate of a full bluray
When will the film market catch on. People wont spend that money on a download. A few quid maybe but no way 15
Pathetic. I bought Iron Man 2 (Don't judge!) triple play from Tesco for £14.99.
For that I get the Blu-Ray, DVD and iTunes download.
So now it plays on my PS3, my iPhone, my Macs and my mum's dusty old DVD player. Or I can just pay most of that to be limited to Apple sanctioned devices only.
No thanks.
(also, title should be "HD movie purchases hit iTunes UK" right?)
Out of all the movies, did you just HAVE to use that one?
December 08 2010 at 2:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyNativity was showing up to buy last week in HD too.
December 08 2010 at 2:30 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply£12.99 to buy is stupid when you can get the Blu-Ray disc DELIVERED for cheaper. I'd be interested when this gets cheaper. Much cheaper. Otherwise, there's still torrents.
December 08 2010 at 2:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhy would you pay if you could get them for free?
December 08 2010 at 2:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI have never had any interest in buying movies of any kind from iTunes but why has it taken so long?
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