Buy new movies on iTunes same day as DVD release
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
May 1, 2008 at 8:46am
You can now buy new movie releases from major film studios and premier independent studios on the iTunes Store on the same day as their DVD release.
New releases and catalog titles will be available from 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Lionsgate, Image Entertainment and First Look Studios. Movies purchased from iTunes can be viewed on an iPod with video, iPhone, Mac or PC or on a widescreen TV with Apple TV, with new releases priced at US$14.99 and most catalog titles at $9.99.
New releases available for purchase on the iTunes Store this week, concurrent with their DVD release, include American Gangster and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Other popular titles now available for purchase include Juno, Cloverfield, I Am Legend, There Will Be Blood Alvin and the Chipmunks and Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.
Movie purchases and rentals from the iTunes Store for Mac or Windows require iTunes 7.6. iTunes movie purchases and rentals require a valid credit card with a billing address in the country of purchase. iTunes Movies are available in the US only and are $9.99 for library title purchases and $14.99 for new release purchases and $2.99 for library title rentals and $3.99 for new release rentals. High definition rental versions are priced one dollar more with library title rentals at $3.99 and new release rentals at $4.99. Short films are available to rent for 99 cents.
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Dennis Sellers
Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
Andrew Turner Says:
Awesome! Now the question has to be asked - will the new releases be in HD or standard format?
Posted on May 01, 2008