Apple to offer latest release movies on iTunes

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Apple is expected to announce Thursday that it has struck a deal with a wide array of major and mini studios to offer many new releases for purchase at its iTunes Store.

The move would allow a broad slate of top-shelf films to be offered day-and-date with home video releases, which risks cannibalizing DVD sales.

The new arrangement with the studios is expected to involve Fox, Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal, Sony Pictures, Lionsgate and New Line. The deal does not include new titles from MGM but does extend to boutique firms such as Magnolia and Image Entertainment.

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$14.99 for a digital copy? thanks but no thanks. I know it's movie studios who set the price but still that is ridiculous.

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and no germany still anyways, so why should i care xD

"cannibalize dvd sales" -> the only reason I buy dvds (when i do.. lol) is that it's more than the single movie... its got extras, a booklet sometimes, a cover and its PHYSICAL...

holy crap... the best dvds are just slightly more expensive than that after release... xD

$5 would be interesting, but that tag is ridiculous.

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If that's the case, why is it that the same music from iTunes costs far less on eMusic and without DRM?

music and movies are 2 very different animals. movie studios are nowhere near budging on DRM. Do not expect to see non drmed first run studio content available for download any time in the near future. What you will see is less restrictive drm in the very near future. We are working hard over here to make sure you can do with your content all of the things that you would want to do with your content, with the exception of making illegal copies.

If you are comparing illegal torrents to legal download from providers like cinemanow or itunes. There is more to using a legal service than just the "legality" of it. If you have a job and can afford to pay 1.99 or 2.99 for a rental or fork out the 14.99 for the download, the convenience of using a service is far better. Downloading a torrent you are at the will of other peoples willingness to share their bandwidth with you, most files are compressed and are in formats that take hours for you to actually get them onto a dvd and watch them. Over here we have massive content delivery servers that allow you to start watching movies within 30 seconds. Using devices like the archos 605 and the mp media smart tv (more on the way) you can buy the content directly from the devices without even touching your computer. In my (partially non-biased) opinion torrents are way to much work and spyware to keep me from spending a few bucks to buy the content legally.

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music and movies are 2 very different animals. movie studios are nowhere near budging on DRM. Do not expect to see non drmed first run studio content available for download any time in the near future. What you will see is less restrictive drm in the very near future. We are working hard over here to make sure you can do with your content all of the things that you would want to do with your content, with the exception of making illegal copies.

If you are comparing illegal torrents to legal download from providers like cinemanow or itunes. There is more to using a legal service than just the "legality" of it. If you have a job and can afford to pay 1.99 or 2.99 for a rental or fork out the 14.99 for the download, the convenience of using a service is far better. Downloading a torrent you are at the will of other peoples willingness to share their bandwidth with you, most files are compressed and are in formats that take hours for you to actually get them onto a dvd and watch them. Over here we have massive content delivery servers that allow you to start watching movies within 30 seconds. Using devices like the archos 605 and the mp media smart tv (more on the way) you can buy the content directly from the devices without even touching your computer. In my (partially non-biased) opinion torrents are way to much work and spyware to keep me from spending a few bucks to buy the content legally.

I said nothing about torrents. I can assure you that eMusic is not illegal. It is even on the default list of Windows Media Player stores. Go their site and look if you like. If you download 50 tracks from iTunes for .99 a track, or you can download the same 50 tracks from another store for $15 a month, that makes iTunes more expensive the way I see it. ;)

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First off I would never BUY a movie in download format. The quality is probably much lower than even a DVD.

If they are asking $14.99 for them screw it. I can get non "collectors" of most first release movies for only $2-$4 more. If they were say $8.99 then I might sway away from the sentence above.

The thing it really boils down to is unless I buy enough downloaded movies to offset the price of Apple TV there is no point.

$14.99 movies but $229 Apple TV to play them easily that probably are not 720p vs $15-$17 DVD's on my $99 DVD player]

Tho I will state I have zero issues with renting downloaded movies.

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I kinda doubt I would get any of these movies... no hard copy & DRM = no purchase. If I have a hard copy and it has DRM, well at least I can do what I want with the copy and sell it if I don't like it anymore or if I want it in a different format (even though modern formats allow for mandatory managed copies), or if it's a file and it has no DRM, at least I can play it on the device I want and I know it won't get shut down on me. Apple is doing good things with their music store but I kind of doubt they can make this fly like that.

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GTAIV being on torrents made the news. :rolleyes:

I think your missing the point there... that was an illegal release compared to a legal one which is why this story made the news they are saying you can now legally... thats a big difference from game leaked before released

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No thanks. For that price I'll just stick with my torrents. If it was $5 I might have been willing to pay that. When are these studios going to learn? When you offer a digital download, it has to be significantly cheaper than at retail.

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I said nothing about torrents. I can assure you that eMusic is not illegal. It is even on the default list of Windows Media Player stores. Go their site and look if you like. If you download 50 tracks from iTunes for .99 a track, or you can download the same 50 tracks from another store for $15 a month, that makes iTunes more expensive the way I see it. ;)

lmao, i am very familiar with emusic, thanks. like i said music and movies are 2 very different animals. they are different studios, even when they are the same studios the division are very separated. Also the investment is very very different, the cost of making a movie is much higher than recording a record. Like I said they are 2 totally different animals, you are comparing apples and oranges.

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I kinda doubt I would get any of these movies... no hard copy & DRM = no purchase. If I have a hard copy and it has DRM, well at least I can do what I want with the copy and sell it if I don't like it anymore or if I want it in a different format (even though modern formats allow for mandatory managed copies), or if it's a file and it has no DRM, at least I can play it on the device I want and I know it won't get shut down on me. Apple is doing good things with their music store but I kind of doubt they can make this fly like that.

stay tuned ! we are working out these challenges.

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