First iTunes Movie Premiere: Purple Violets

[JABevan]

Huh? Come out from under the rock!

"...your date would have to be cool with coming over to watch the movie on your laptop. Or desktop. Or even on the gorgeous little 3-inch by 2-inch screen of your iPod Touch..."

Huh? Where's this guy been?? I watch movies on my TV playing from my iPhone all the time with my Apple AV Component Cables (these aren't new, and you've been able to do this since the first video iPods). The picture and image quality is fantastic and only going to get better.

 

[LizKat]

Another plug for the AppleTV here. I pre-ordered the movie and at about 11PM EST last night, I got an email from Apple letting me know that it was ready to download. Twenty-five minutes and 1.15 GB later, the movie looked gorgeous on my AppleTV/42" plasma. I won't watch it until later, when my honey is over for date-night.

Aside from "event movies," I won't go anywhere near my local theater. The movie-going experience has declined with the advent of cell phones and the seeming break-down of civil society in general.

LOL, the movie-going experience even back in the 1970s in the upper west side of NYC wasn't all that civilized... Columbia students having sex in the loges, political activists cutting loose batches of white lab rats in the main aisles or setting off the occasional stink bomb to protest US interference in Chilean elections, etc etc etc. But the price was right on Saturday night (a buck!) and it's true there were no frickenCellBells back then

 

[operator207]

LOL, the movie-going experience even back in the 1970s in the upper west side of NYC wasn't all that civilized... Columbia students having sex in the loges, political activists cutting loose batches of white lab rats in the main aisles or setting off the occasional stink bomb to protest US interference in Chilean elections, etc etc etc. But the price was right on Saturday night (a buck!) and it's true there were no frickenCellBells back then

Ahh the good ole' days. Though we had to walk up hill both ways in the snow to get to school/work back then. I guess its a toss up.

I am not quite old enough to remember the 70's all that well, though I remember the 80's quite well. Movie night, with the family, consisted of going to the Cinemark theatre, for a buck. And if you had a cell phone back then, you had enough money to goto the nice theatre.

 

[Matiek]

I can't justify paying $14 for a movie I've never seen and will never be able to hold in my hand. If the price was closer to say $5-$6 dollars I would have done it just for the gimmicky value of the first movie to be released on Itunes. If I'm paying that much money for the movie I should be able to burn a dvd playable disc of it.