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HBO Shows Now Available in HD on iTunes
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ok, then it's obvious you're not a videophile when you think the apple tv and the iTunes webDLs are adequate. you're missing out on full 1080p and DTS-HD or TrueHD
Agreed. But it would be nice if the HD was something closer to blu-ray quality.
And in regards to TV shows if they all came out the next day (next week at the latest) of the airing rather than weeks and weeks later when the DVD comes out. And if the studios would support closed captioning if not also visual tracks. Perhaps also tossing in some of the commentary tracks and features at some point as a bonus.
And with movies it would be nice if those Extras and such would work on all devices rather than this game of one style for the computer and this embedded in an app nonsense for the iphone etc.
I can agree with those. Especially the rental window being longer. Perhaps not unlimited but how about 14 days and you can watch it all you want during that time
And I wouldn't mind a subscription rental system. Say maybe that is where the unlimited with a limit of so many at a time could come into play.
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I hardly have anything comparable to a Mercedes but I still manage to buy all my favorite shows each week. I don't buy season passes anymore because it's much easier to buy by the episode. This summer it's been two years since I shut off my DirecTV.
Wrong, Apple takes 30% of the revenue on iTunes too - actually that's where they got the business plan from that they later applied to the App Store.
No Game of Thrones??
Game of Thrones is now in HD in Australia on iTunes! We have Season 1 and 2, but only S2 is in HD, and S1 seems to be missing(?) the final episode. S2 was made available at the same time as the local broadcast (about a week later than the US) but only in SD.
Seems that now the deal is done we'll get HD along with broadcast for S3. Finally!
I got into a conversation over something similar, when someone brought up that Game of Thrones held the dubious honors of being the currently most pirated show on the internet.
"It's HBO's fault", I said, "If they at least offered Go untethered from the cable subscription, more people would be willing to offer them money to watch the shows they make".
In response, I was handed this handy link, explaining exactly why HBO won't offer Go cable free for a good while yet, and how our chances of getting their shows a la carte before the box set releases are about slim to none.
It's disappointing in how it brings up some very good points. Disappointing because I really, really, really want to cut my cable TV bill. I'm paying tons a month just to watch a few shows on AMC, FX, and HBO. That's money I could be using to give my illegitimate children their insulin shots!
"It's HBO's fault", I said, "If they at least offered Go untethered from the cable subscription, more people would be willing to offer them money to watch the shows they make".
In response, I was handed this handy link, explaining exactly why HBO won't offer Go cable free for a good while yet, and how our chances of getting their shows a la carte before the box set releases are about slim to none.
It's disappointing in how it brings up some very good points. Disappointing because I really, really, really want to cut my cable TV bill. I'm paying tons a month just to watch a few shows on AMC, FX, and HBO. That's money I could be using to give my illegitimate children their insulin shots!