French iTunes Video Store This Month?

MacRumors · 02:19 PM

French website ElectronLibre is reporting that Apple will be set to launch the iTunes video store in France later this month (Google English translation).

Quote:

Apple has signed contracts with seven major international and local studios, including Paramount and Disney, of course, but also EuropaCorp, the production house of Luc Besson.

If true, France would join Canada the U.K. and Germany as the 4th international iTunes store to provide video.

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Yvan256 · 01:51 PM

Not to get technical, but iTunes Canada does have TV shows, which is videos.

kornyboy · May 6, 2008, 02:13 PM

Wirelessly posted (iPhone: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A102 Safari/419.3)

Does this mean there will be rental options in France or will of be purchase only like the original store in the US.

reallynotnick · May 6, 2008, 05:18 PM

I can't imagine what kind of licensing nightmare the iTunes store is.

Henri Gaudier · May 7, 2008, 05:16 AM

Who cares? I have a download speed of around 2.8kbps

Every time I ask the mayor about ADSL he says "Next year!" Long live vinyl and super 8mm!

Erwin-Br · May 7, 2008, 05:16 AM

Movie/Music/Broadcasting studio's really have to change their current model. It's way too restricting and holds back innovation. Crap like DRM, DVD Region codes, etc. are a burden for the honest consumer, a burden for companies like Apple, and it actually promotes piracy. And for what? Control? Meanwhile the studio's are missing opportunities to make money.

--Erwin

LizKat · May 10, 2008, 03:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by reallynotnick

I can't imagine what kind of licensing nightmare the iTunes store is.

Yeah but that's what computers are for, sorting that stuff out. And that's the great thing about relational databases. You can correct architectural errors overnight with a couple rebuilds...

May 6, 2008, 01:44 PM	#2
Yvan256 macrumors 68040 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Canada	Not to get technical, but iTunes Canada does have TV shows, which is videos. __________________ Mac mini Core 2 Duo 1.83 GHz/2.5 GiB, Mac mini G4 1.42 GHz/1 GiB, 12" PowerBook G4 1.5 GHz/512 MiB, iPod touch 16 GiB, silver iPod shuffle 1 GiB. Last edited by Yvan256 : May 6, 2008 at 01:51 PM. Reason: I can't type properly today

May 6, 2008, 02:13 PM	#3
kornyboy macrumors 6502a Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Knoxville, TN (USA)	Wirelessly posted (iPhone: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A102 Safari/419.3) Does this mean there will be rental options in France or will of be purchase only like the original store in the US. __________________ Stuff

May 7, 2008, 05:16 AM	#6
Erwin-Br macrumors regular Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: The Netherlands	Movie/Music/Broadcasting studio's really have to change their current model. It's way too restricting and holds back innovation. Crap like DRM, DVD Region codes, etc. are a burden for the honest consumer, a burden for companies like Apple, and it actually promotes piracy. And for what? Control? Meanwhile the studio's are missing opportunities to make money. --Erwin __________________ Mac Pro - 2x 2.8GHz Quad Core Xeon, 16GB, 8800GT Mac Mini - 1.83GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1GB iPod Touch - Gen 2, 16 GB

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May 6, 2008, 05:18 PM	#4
reallynotnick macrumors 6502 Join Date: Oct 2005	I can't imagine what kind of licensing nightmare the iTunes store is.

May 7, 2008, 05:16 AM	#5
Henri Gaudier macrumors 6502 Join Date: May 2005 Location: France	Who cares? I have a download speed of around 2.8kbps Every time I ask the mayor about ADSL he says "Next year!" Long live vinyl and super 8mm!