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Apple to Offer 99-Cent TV Show Rentals?

No way I'm going to pay 99 cents more than once or twice. Imagine you want to catch up on a few 30 Rock episodes one friday night (assuming NBC comes along). You pay $5 and get to watch 5 episodes. That's hardly worth it.
 
kas23 said:
I agree. Many of us pay at least $50 per month on cable. Can anyone here say that they watch 50 TV shows per week? That about 7 shows per day. If anyone watches that much, you should get out more. There's so much crap on TV, I would gladly pay $0.99 per TV show. My monthly "cable" bill would be about $15. I'll buy that.

But, for some reason, I find this too good to be true. Likely the cable companies will make you buy some "base package" and TV shows will be additional. Or, the show selection will be horrible.
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I agree with you point, but you need to redo your math. $50/month would be about 12 shows per week or a couple shows per night.

Or are you thinking it is .99 per month per show?
 
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That is a bit expensive for a tv show rental....

More in the price range of a tv show buy or a movie rental
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Seriously? $1 is too expensive to watch a multi-million dollar production show? I have maybe 3 shows I like to watch weekly...that's $3 a week x 4...$12 a month...that's massive savings compared to what you pay for cable, plus it's on demand whenever you want and hopefully without commercials. Sounds like one hell of a bargain to me.
 
My only gripe is the 24 hour rental period. I've yet to understand this restriction. Sometimes families can't watch an entire movie in one sitting and 48 hours is much more reasonable than 24.
Puzzling and annoying.
 
BklynKid said:
No way I'm going to pay 99 cents more than once or twice. Imagine you want to catch up on a few 30 Rock episodes one friday night (assuming NBC comes along). You pay $5 and get to watch 5 episodes. That's hardly worth it.
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While I'm not sure what the magic number is, this is what ala carte looks like folks. You don't get your favorite show subsidized by the other 500 channels of crap that you never watch.
For people with modest viewing habits, I can see ala carte puchase coming to 30 or 40 bucks a month, still less than the 50-60 it costs if you have any premium channels.

Again, I don't know what the right price point is. The market can determine that if we can get the cable monopolies out of the way. And that's a BIG 'if'.
 
GQB said:
My only gripe is the 24 hour rental period. I've yet to understand this restriction. Sometimes families can't watch an entire movie in one sitting and 48 hours is much more reasonable than 24.
Puzzling and annoying.
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Yes. 48 hours would have no downside and be a huge help!

Doesn’t Apple already rent something for 48 hours? I don’t recall where I read that. Maybe it’s movie rentals outside the US?
 
BUT, will any of these shows be available outside the US?

Here in Denmark - where I live - you're still not able to rent or buy a single movie in iTunes. Not. A. Single. One.
Same goes for books in the iBooks Store.

Unbelievable.
 
Where I live, the local TV stations miss quite a few days a year of broadcasting when tornadoes are wiping out a nearby town. If you DVR the show, you just get the weather guy talking about 318 MPH winds and softball sized hail (Not to mention lots of dopplar radar and pictures from the storm chasers.) If you are home, they will tell you they will rebroadcast the shows you miss at 3:30 AM. The problem is, the shows usualy start a bit early or late so It is hard to DVR them. There is also a good chance the power will be out at your house for a few days after a big storm cluster.

This would let you download the one show you missed when you get power back (If you have a house and a TV after the storm.)
 
flottenheimer said:
BUT, will any of these shows be available outside the US?

Here in Denmark - where I live - you're still not able to rent or buy a single movie in iTunes. Not. A. Single. One.
Same goes for books in the iBooks Store.

Unbelievable.
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What i was thinking. It will be irrelevant until it's global.
 
Rabbit ears

You can still plug a pair of rabbit ears into your TV and watch all the good prime time stuff in HD for free.
 
fall3n said:
Seriously? $1 is too expensive to watch a multi-million dollar production show? I have maybe 3 shows I like to watch weekly...that's $3 a week x 4...$12 a month...that's massive savings compared to what you pay for cable, plus it's on demand whenever you want and hopefully without commercials. Sounds like one hell of a bargain to me.
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I think maybe you should sell your TV and just use Hulu.
 
BaldiMac said:
I agree with you point, but you need to redo your math. $50/month would be about 12 shows per week or a couple shows per night.

Or are you thinking it is .99 per month per show?
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Yes, you are right. My bad.

I guess it all comes down to how much TV you watch. If you watch TV every night, $0.99 per show would be very pricey. I don't watch TV everynight, but just have about 3 or 4 favorite shows I watch per week. In my case, $0.99 per show would be much cheaper than a monthly cable bill.
 
marconiusrex said:
No thanks...don't need the Faux News lie machine on my ipad or anywhere! I've deleted it from my cable TV. And certainly don't need to make Murdoch any richer!
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dont watch any Fox-owned broadcast channels then. Don't read the WSJ, don't read any Fox movies neither. If you want to do a real boycott, do it the right way.

Go here so you can see the list of ownerships Fox has with the media.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_corporation
 
Glad I bailed on DirecTV and get HD broadcast TV with free recording now with my EyeTV One. If they are going to charge $0.99 for renting a 22 or 44 minute episode on iTV, they should at least offer half-off if you subscribe to the entire season up front. I would hope this all is HD content we are talking about.
 
mytakeontech said:
LOL...In what world you ppl are living? Renting the shows the same night, no commercial, .99 per series!

This is newscorp and apple or for that matter corporations we are talking about.
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I know my question might be a little off. But where I live, I pay about 2 bucks to rent a full serie for a week. So .99 is not out of this world for me (for a rental, that is.)
 
kas23 said:
Yes, you are right. My bad.

I guess it all comes down to how much TV you watch. If you watch TV every night, $0.99 per show would be very pricey. I don't watch TV everynight, but just have about 3 or 4 favorite shows I watch per week. In my case, $0.99 per show would be much cheaper than a monthly cable bill.
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Can't disagree, but since Apple will only have distribution rights for certain shows from certain networks, what's to say all of your favorite shows are available? Chances are most people won't be able to make such a move without giving up several favorites.
 
skellener said:
Glad I bailed on satellite and get HD broadcast TV with free recording now with my EyeTV One. If they are going to charge $0.99 for renting a 22 or 44 minute episode on TV, they should at least offer half-off if you subscribe to the entire season up front. I would hope this all is HD content we are talking about.
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most likely, but HD content in 720p only
 
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