Really Apple?

[Gilly]

4 bucks to rent a new release? Come on.

[Beth]

explain?

is this apple computers we are referring to?

[Gilly]

Apple announced today that they will be renting movies over Itunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/movies.html

$2.99 for an old movie and $3.99 for a new release is ridiculous. I'm not paying that much to have a movie for 24 hours. You get to keep it for 30 days and it starts the 24 hour countdown once you start watching. But, my local video store has better prices than that. How does this compete with Netflix or Redbox? Oh yeah...people will buy anything Apple puts on the market.

[Beth]

I guess that's not awful. But yeah, netflix has some deals where they charge 5 bucks for the whole month. But you only get one movie at a time. So that's probably much better than what Apple is doing. However, last time I checked, the local chain video stores were renting movies for that much.

[erika]

Apple announced today that they will be renting movies over Itunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/movies.html

$2.99 for an old movie and $3.99 for a new release is ridiculous. I'm not paying that much to have a movie for 24 hours. You get to keep it for 30 days and it starts the 24 hour countdown once you start watching. But, my local video store has better prices than that. How does this compete with Netflix or Redbox? Oh yeah...people will buy anything Apple puts on the market.

eh apple isn't breaking ground with that. you pay 4.99 or 5.99 for movies via comcast on demand... they're just aligning themselves with traditional pay-per-view fee structures.

[Gilly]

I was expecting Apple to be more in line with Redbox (the things you find in McDonalds, Walmart and other places and can rent movies for a buck a day) than Comcast On Demand and Blockbuster. Especially since you're already paying for an internet connection to be able to download the movies in the first place....and that they are making money off the AppleTV's and Ipods you can play them on.

[masterofsparks]

Paying any amount of money to watch a movie on a 1" screen is pretty ridiculous. I'm with David Lynch on this one.

[Gilly]

Well, you can play it on your computer and hook that up to a TV pretty easily (Or buy an AppleTV for 200 bucks)  But, I'm not paying that much extra for the convenience of not having to leave the house.

[John Junk]

I'm gonna say "Really Apple?" in reference to the insanely intrusive banner ads they've been putting on the nytimes site lately.  Check it out right now!
http://www.nytimes.com/

[Beth]

Ugh I was just on there today. It's disgusting. I respect Apple and all, but c'mon guys, do you have to toot your own horn so loudly?

Oh, and the Mac Air is a piece of crap.