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Apple Premieres iTunes Movies in Australia and New Zealand

TheReef said:
Great News!

Too bad a lot of us don't have the internet connections that can actually make this conveniently useable…
12 Gig caps…256 KBit plans. Still, it's great to see Apple extending their services :D

I hope Telstra upgrades their plans soon!
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jump ship to the smaller 3rd party adsl companies.
i pay $70 for a 150GB plan on ADSL 2+ and get 600-900 KBPS
they service ealier this year was pretty shoddy but a firmware update on the modem a few months ago did the trick and everything works flawlessly now.

of coarse it all depends on your location
 
booksacool1 said:
Small bandwidth caps? I'm on ADSL2+ (~12mbit)/50gb in brisbane. About $1.20/GB, not that I'd waste it on itunes.

But yeah, I suspect that the ADSL1/telstra port users will find the data costs too great. This probably constitutes most Australians.
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True true, but you'll probably have noticed that Apple downloads come through at tremendous pace. I download my software updates at around 1MB/minute, Eg. 1 100Mb update takes around a minute, as a song download from iTunes takes 4-5 seconds. Yes bandwidth caps are huge, but I don't plan to be downloading movies every day either...
 
Kace said:
… i pay $70 for a 150GB plan on ADSL 2+ …
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what ISP is this? sweet!

im currently on Internode ADSL at 1.5 Mb/s with 20GB at $60 and waiting for ports to open to get ADSL2+ at ~16 Mb/s (havent tested yet) with 25Gb at the same price.

i wouldnt mind only paying 10 bucks more for 150 gigs!
 
Kace said:
still waiting for the ringtones store for my new white 3g iphone. i mean come on how hard can it be. doesnt a smaller market mean less red tape???
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Garage Band is the answer you are looking for.

Why pay more to the store. Not that you can anyway. I was waiting for the same thing when I stumbled across a page that tells you haw to do it using GB and iTunes.

Very simple, very cheap

You do have to jump through a few hoops to use store bought songs though
 
richthomas said:
^ nearly a gig.

maybe you move to another ISP with bigger data caps. unless your on cable which is pretty good on BigPond.
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My Bigpond = Cable and is mega quick.

Plus they gave it to me in a bundle 'for a song', to win my business back from another ISP.

If a whole movie is around 1 GB, then maybe downloads are possible with my 12 GB cap.

Financially though....

$ 5.99 for an iTunes rental vs $ 6.99 at Blockbuster. That's 329 rentals before my AppleTV has paid for itself. 329 rentals = about 10 years for me.

Until AppleTV is also a STB with twin tuners and PVR functionality to match my Topfield, it doesn' make sense to me.
 
richthomas said:
what ISP is this? sweet!

im currently on Internode ADSL at 1.5 Mb/s with 20GB at $60 and waiting for ports to open to get ADSL2+ at ~16 Mb/s (havent tested yet) with 25Gb at the same price.

i wouldnt mind only paying 10 bucks more for 150 gigs!
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im with TPG. granted the 150GB comprises of 60GB usable hours and 90GB night time. but still if im running low on remaining day time download quota i usually use apple script do to the work for me and make use of the night time quota.


btw the store on windows itunes sucks. at the moment anyway. cant wait to get home and check it out.

also im sure if the US store has variable pricing yet. but im digging the 12.99 on terminator.
 
pmoeser said:
Garage Band is the answer you are looking for.

Why pay more to the store. Not that you can anyway. I was waiting for the same thing when I stumbled across a page that tells you haw to do it using GB and iTunes.

Very simple, very cheap

You do have to jump through a few hoops to use store bought songs though
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thanks for that. i got my iphone the day before yesterday so havent done too much research on it. just tried putting ringtones yesterday to find out i cant get em. but surely will look for the garageband soln on the weekend.

digging the app store btw... so far so good... and cuz i held out for a month after launch i got a contract with Virgin with 5GB download limit.
 
congrats to you guys but this sucks that the us cant the extra 24 hrs i hope this changes soon :mad:
 
The 48 hours is to give us time for the download....
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no its not
when you rent a film, you have 30 days to start watching it, when you do start watching it, you have 48 hours to finish
 
I live in New Zealand and I am with Xtra and have an unlimited download cap, and have an 8.5mbit connection and download on average at 900kb/s, I only pay NZ$50 a month and I certainly make the most of it, 246 GB last month lol :D. I guess im part of the reason Xtra stopped offering the Go large plan. Im waiting for ADSL 2+ to be rolled out in my area.
 
Woohoo!!!

Now the new Netspace plans which were 1.5Mbps and 10GB (5GB peak 5GB off peak times) is now 18GB total, leaving me much more plwyng room for downloads!!

If only I could afford them though... :(

And that's great news that the :apple:TV has dropped in price too. Now the :apple:TV can be used as it is meant to be!!

Oh, BTW, with Netspace 1.5Mbps I am 1KM away from exchange and get 1.2Mbps actual speeds. With iPrimus (Which I like to call iPoomus) I got 430Kbps when I paid for 1.5!!! Oh, and Netspace have brilliant customer servce too. iPoomus have poor POOR service!!
 
I'm in Auckland also, and use my US iTunes account to rent movies on my appleTV. I can tell you that even though my Internet connection is not super fast - I can hit the rental button and be watching within 2 minutes generally. It has always amazed me how quick it is. Would have no hesitation in recommending getting movies this way ( particularly with appleTV)
 
dawnraid said:
I live in New Zealand and I am with Xtra and have an unlimited download cap, and have an 3.5mbit connection and download on average at 900kb/s, I only pay NZ$50 a month and I certainly make the most of it, 246 GB last month lol :D. I guess im part of the reason Xtra stopped offering the Go large plan. Im waiting for ADSL 2+ to be rolled out in my area.
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They don't seem to offer anything like that now though, certainly not at a reliable 900kb/sec (which is basically the maximum adsl speed they offer, which you rarely get anything near). The nearest plan I can find that would let me download that amount of data anything better than 64kbps would be roughly $300 from Xnet, and they're the best deal in the country as near as I can tell.

Service keeps getting worse, price keeps going up, something's wrong there...

Is there some way we can get an idea of quality of the different types of movies without forking out most of the cost of the respective DVD to buy them?
 
Not showing up in TV

What gives, I can't rent or purchase directly from my TV. I still only see, Trailers and MyMovies???
 
Still no TV shows on iTunes NZ

I think it's worth mentioning, that although it's great that movies are now available, TV shows are STILL not available on the New Zealand iTunes Store. I'm not sure what it's going to take for this to happen.
 
stevenz said:
They don't seem to offer anything like that now though, certainly not at a reliable 900kb/sec (which is basically the maximum adsl speed they offer, which you rarely get anything near). The nearest plan I can find that would let me download that amount of data anything better than 64kbps would be roughly $300 from Xnet, and they're the best deal in the country as near as I can tell.

Service keeps getting worse, price keeps going up, something's wrong there...

Is there some way we can get an idea of quality of the different types of movies without forking out most of the cost of the respective DVD to buy them?
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I guess I get pretty decent speeds (up to 1.3mb/s on torrents) because i live in central auckland maybe close to an exchange? Yes they stopped offering the Go Large plan about 2 months after it was launched due to bandwith issues lol, I was one of the lucky ones :).
 
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