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Apple Announces iTunes Movie Rentals

Ult said:
Just do a power search, select movies, you'll now see a checkmark that says "search movies that are available for rental" and enter 2007 in the year field. Then keep searching and it'll eventually increase in results. (of which I can only see the movie 300 listed as rentable now)
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Doesn't work for me (and I tried to logout and login) but can't see any rental movies yet. Anyone else still having problems?
 
The movie page in iTunes now has a section that says "Top Rentals" on the far right hand part of the window.

EDIT: But then when you click on it, it brings up like 6 movies total and not one of them is even available for rent. One of them is Zoolander. It says "Buy" under it and I went to its page and there is no sign of a Rent button.

They definitely dropped the ball on this.
 
I cant find it using the any search and typing in 300. I tried searching by 30 and it didnt find it. Then i just searched for "3" and it is there... probably just taking a while to index?

EDIT: the search movies available for rental just popped up
 
Sometimes I wonder if iTunes is full of crap. When I see something like this after reading about how practically nobody has been able to rent yet... is this totally fake? Do they just make their data up? Is it like staff favorites? lol you can click on these movies and there is absolutely nothing about being able to rent them.. only to buy.
 

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Brendon Bauer said:
Sometimes I wonder if iTunes is full of crap. When I see something like this after reading about how practically nobody has been able to rent yet... is this totally fake? Do they just make their data up? Is it like staff favorites? lol you can click on these movies and there is absolutely nothing about being able to rent them.. only to buy.
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I bet each of those movies has been rented once, by the 8 people who have been able to rent movies so far:)
 
I figure out how to rent!!

1. Goto to movies
2. Click on Pirates of the Caribbean A Lands End
3. Click on View all Reviews
4. then click on "Sort by most recent to see more"

The screen flicks and the rental button is available

This also worked with other movies listed in recent rentals

I'm sure this is a gltch in the system, but it works

Hope this Helps
 
Methinks Apple needs more servers. They now have all the major studios providing content, meaning demand will be a lot higher for movies in iTunes. Jobs shouldn't have said anything at all about it being ready for use today. He should have just said, "In the next few days."
 
whoo hoo --- I'm one of the 8!

I was able to rent 300. Haven't watched it yet as I want to connect it to my iPhone to see how that works.

I followed the steps laid out by previous posters to search for the movie 300. Once I found it I clicked 'rent movie'. That brought up the new terms of service which after you agree to there is another button that says go back and rent your content. When I hit the 'rent movie' again on the 300 page it all started to work. Movie downloaded...Rented Movies popped up in my iTunes.

I'm going to try the Pirates suggestion above to see if I can trick the system. We all need a hobby! :D

Edit: I was able to reproduce the Pirates glitch that shows a rental button mentioned above. I didn't rent it as I already own. It took forever for the iPhone to see that I'd rented 300. When it did, the following info shows up under the 'video' tab on the iPhone menu in iTunes.

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mbcracken said:
do I see at this time. I've loaded 7.6 Why would a movie rental only be available to those with ATV?
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Is it still possible for people with apple TV to rent movies via iTunes since apple will not be releasing this software update for them for a couple of weeks?
 
I found that in order for rentals to show up you need to act as if you are going to buy something from iTMS. Click the buy button and then you have to agree to the new terms of service.

Once I did this I searched for the movie 300 and it showed up as a rental.

Your mileage may vary
 
boojiboy said:
1. Goto to movies
2. Click on Pirates of the Caribbean A Lands End
3. Click on View all Reviews
4. then click on "Sort by most recent to see more"

The screen flicks and the rental button is available

This also worked with other movies listed in recent rentals

I'm sure this is a gltch in the system, but it works

Hope this Helps
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Thanks it works, Woo Hoo!
 
It Worked..

I was able to rent Pirates 3. Rented movies popped up as an option on my itunes. It took awhile before I could watch though. Good luck all.
 
javaGuru said:
Is it still possible for people with apple TV to rent movies via iTunes since apple will not be releasing this software update for them for a couple of weeks?
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The current Apple TV software version lacks the codecs necessary to play the rental movies.In two weeks when the software is updated I'm thinking you might be able to sync a non-viewed rental movie to the Apple TV from iTunes on your computer.
But until then they won't transfer or play.
 
Just rented Dances with wolves

refresh trick worked for me too!!!

But itunes says 5hrs remaining to download, what's that about. Does that mean I get the movie for 31hrs?????


:D:D:D
 
No luck for me... Do you think they will have a queue like Netflix or Blockbuster???
 
I thought I just rented 300, but it doesn't show it to be downloading. "Check for Purchases" also turns up nothing.

I agreed to the new licensing agreement and pop-up.
 
emulator said:
Bad deal indeed, will only please fanbois.
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It might be bad if you rent dozens of movies a month and have to see all the latest movies, but for someone like me, I think it will work well because:

1) If there is a movie I'm desperate to see, I go to... :eek: a theater! I don't need to rent a movie as soon as it's released on DVD

2) I rent 0-4 movies a month, so it's not worth it to pay for a subscription somewhere and the rental cost is the same as my local video store.
 
So how will they handle this? After the FW update on the Apple TV when you rent will it DL the HD version? And in Itunes will it only DL the version that will work on the Ipods or Iphone?

Still it makes more sense to rent from Redbox for a buck and rip it in AppleTV Quality to your Itunes. Then delete it of course.
 
Update of Touch is working great!

Also, now I have been able to rent Rat•a•too•ee for the kids. How many ipods can we link to the download? "I know, I know - Look it up mister"
 
redfirebird08 said:
Methinks Apple needs more servers. They now have all the major studios providing content, meaning demand will be a lot higher for movies in iTunes. Jobs shouldn't have said anything at all about it being ready for use today. He should have just said, "In the next few days."
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Apple's just buys bandwidth from companies like Akamai. Apple just has to pay bigger bills to them, but it seems like they can handle pretty much any level of content.
 
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