This is why the price point should be lower to discourage even messing around with torrents, quality, seeding, etc. I know if I click into iTunes to rent something I will get good quality. At a certain price point, people would say screw messing with torrents. Kind of similar to music being so easy and affordable to purchase.
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Apple Negotiating to Offer Rentals for Movies Still in Theaters, but at a Price
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Great to be thrifty.
iTunes vouchers (can be used for apple music) 15% to 20% off hopefully available every few months for all Canadian folks like in the US and UK.
Apple is like those Japanese soldiers who were left behind on an island at the end of WWII.
They were found a few years later fun they were still fighting because they had no way to know that the war was over.
They were found a few years later fun they were still fighting because they had no way to know that the war was over.
$10? Where do you guys live that movie tickets are so cheap? $11 is the matinee price at most theaters around here now. It really is pathetic how much they charge these days.
Stealing implies ownership in the first place. They don't own anything, its a purveyed ideal that they use to profit from others.
This is an excellent idea. Like others have stated this could actually save you money from going to a theater. And it would actually encourage people that dislike going to theaters to spend more money on movies instead of waiting for them on Netflix, Redbox, HBO etc.
Your sense of entitlement is sickening. People like you represent so much of whats wrong with society today.
Your sense of entitlement is sickening. People like you represent so much of whats wrong with society today.
I doubt the pricing is much up to Apple, the content providers hold all the cards and they really don't need Apple. Apple will of course get a cut, but it's the guys with the movies who are getting the lion's share, and setting the pricing. Likewise, if there are restrictions (and there almost certainly will be), such as time windows, limited participation of films/studios, etc., those probably aren't Apple's decisions either.
Oh so the movie was made without any money changing hands? The person that put pen to paper doesn't own what they wrote? You should just be able to take anything you want without compensating anyone? Good.... leave your doors open so anyone can come by and just take whatever they want.
Hopefully this isn't you in a few years time:
"i got caught downloading movies games books everything i got a big fine 5 years in feudal prison it sucks i ant doing it no more 25,000,000 fine it not a joke they can take your house your car everything they did it to me my friends told me about it and i was home and got a letter from the cable and looked it up it not a joke please don’t download unless you pay for it. it not worth going to jail for or getting everything you worked for and have it all taken away".
Maybe a bit tongue in cheek, not sure, but you can never be too careful nowadays.
Good luck.
50 bucks? No thanks. I rarely go to the movies because I hate being in the theater with other people. The ticket here starts at 8 bucks which is good enough for me when I do actually go. Small popcorn and soda and i probably spend 15 at the most. Double that if i take a date out.
So to spend 50 bucks to watch it at my house is laughable. Not everyone has family or kids.
So to spend 50 bucks to watch it at my house is laughable. Not everyone has family or kids.
I agree. At $25-$30 that is about what it cost to take my family to the movies so I could see doing it a few times a year for Family Movie Night, but at anything over $30 we will just go to the theater.
I can watch a new movie for $6.25 at a nice theater here between 4-6 pm everyday. $50 is a joke.
Maybe Phil or Tim will refrain from telling us the actual price.
"It's a magical and revolutionary price!"
"It's a magical and revolutionary price!"
Is that how it works in the UK as well (the poster you were replying to)?
[doublepost=1481163371][/doublepost]Different strokes for different folks it seems...
The movie theatres I checked out recently are $11 for general admission, and +$3 for 3D or IMAX/its equivalent.
I almost never get food at a movie theatre. I grew up in a family where we eat before or after. If not a full meal, then a midday snack. Never saw any reason to buy THEIR food when your food was cheaper, better, and more variety.
At a 2nd run theatre I used to go to, a meal would be $13 to $22 after tax and tip (but doesn't include the price of alcohol). Tickets would be $1 to $5.5, so you were still coming out ahead.
First time saw this on another site:
Only imagine, yep. others thing this is a jack up apple price.
[doublepost=1481163990][/doublepost]I have an 16 x 9 foot screen. BUT, with all the movies out there, not paying this.
Screw that.
Only imagine, yep. others thing this is a jack up apple price.
[doublepost=1481163990][/doublepost]I have an 16 x 9 foot screen. BUT, with all the movies out there, not paying this.
Screw that.
I'm not sure if you think you're being funny but it just makes you seem unintelligent. Clearly the price is going to be at least triple what it would be in a theater
Do you have to drive to an iTunes kiosk to rent it and then drive back a day later to return it? That's why iTunes is double red box. Convenience.
So you're proposing $50 to see the movie in your own home AND get a Blu ray out of it?? LOLOLOL
You forgot the /s.
Please step away from the Grand Theft Auto game and go outside and get some fresh air. The real world doesn't actually work like that...