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HD Downloads Starting to Appear in UK iTunes Store
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And the free lost trailer jumps every so often on my Macbook pro with nothing else but itunes running.
Yea. Good one apple.
Yea. Good one apple.
Also beat me to it... SO many Irish people on here I never knew
Annoys me every time another European market gets iTunes stuff that we don't
The Panel would be great on iTunes... though it's free on RTÉ if we use crappy Realplayer...
You'd pay to watch The Panel ?!?
Tax £2.50 a show/£42 a season? Not a hope in hell of me paying that - EVER. 3 1/2 different show season passes costs more than my TV license fee!
It would be great if we would see some movies at all in the dutch apple store. The only thing we have at this time are the Pixar shorts....
It shouldn't be too difficult to negotiate conditions for that, since we don't dub any movies like the germans, french, spanish and italians..
I guess we are nowhere near the top of Apple's priority list. We also don't have an apple store yet..
I'm happy for the english girls and boys though!
It shouldn't be too difficult to negotiate conditions for that, since we don't dub any movies like the germans, french, spanish and italians..
I guess we are nowhere near the top of Apple's priority list. We also don't have an apple store yet..
I'm happy for the english girls and boys though!
No, you misunderstand me, I already use Blu-ray - yes I'd like my mac to do it too, but if it doesn't it doesn't, it's not going to make me use HD downloads anytime soon, they are overpriced, lower quality, tied to one manufacturer's hardware, don't have all the extra you get with Blu-ray discs and most importantly are simply unfeasible an impractical for many people until the internet infrastructure is there. Now perhaps most of those issues are not actually Apple's fault, but that's the way it is.
I paid £29.99 for Lost series 4 on Blu-ray, got it sent on day of release... I can wait for season 5 on Blu-ray too. The pricing alone is a farce, but all the other stuff I mentioned makes it no-go for me too.
I'm happy for anyone lucky enough to have a super-fast connection, no bandwidth limits and a willingness to pay over the odds for less content and lower quality for the sake of convenience though, good luck to them.
come on
Come on people... Anyone who uses his/her brain just a little bit is going to activate a US iTunes store account, as the US store is cheaper than any other country's one. Then, if no one buys at the other stores, Apple/studios will have to understand that there is absolutely no reason for charging people different prices at different places (and that people are not so stupid to pay more than necessary).
Oh and... by the way... as far as I know EU is a single market according to EU law. There is no way Apple or anybody else can hinder let's say an Irish citizen to buy anything in, let's say, the UK in any store (and there is no reason why iTunes store should be some exception). Someone should finally sue Apple about their practice to make them realize what the law says, so that they finally stop treating EU countries as separate markets only available to each country's citizens.
Come on people... Anyone who uses his/her brain just a little bit is going to activate a US iTunes store account, as the US store is cheaper than any other country's one. Then, if no one buys at the other stores, Apple/studios will have to understand that there is absolutely no reason for charging people different prices at different places (and that people are not so stupid to pay more than necessary).
Oh and... by the way... as far as I know EU is a single market according to EU law. There is no way Apple or anybody else can hinder let's say an Irish citizen to buy anything in, let's say, the UK in any store (and there is no reason why iTunes store should be some exception). Someone should finally sue Apple about their practice to make them realize what the law says, so that they finally stop treating EU countries as separate markets only available to each country's citizens.
Now there you have a very good point. I should do that.
Doesn't it require you to switch accounts all the time when using your content?
Right on. Not to mention some people like physical media they don't need to backup themselves. I personally prefer something that's professionally made and pressed that I can put on a shelf. Pressed discs have a long shelf life. I've burned some CDs and DVDs 5 years ago that are dead now.
As much as i love your thinking, really I do think apple over charge for stuff on the itunes store, but I'm afraid to say apple can sell things at whatever price they want to whoever they want. Bare in mind the stores are arranged by country to match episode release dates etc. If a show was being aired in the us (the US is often first after all), and UK people were simply buying it all from Itunes USA.. what would be the point of airing the show in the UK?
Also apple can charge UK people alot more because (as with all firms.. Abercrombie for example) they have adopted a policy of charging more (40-60% more i believe) in smaller markets, compared to the USA.
At the end of the day.. UK people pay more for EVERYTHING, its not just itunes.
and btw, making a USA account wont work unless you have a USA credit/debit card. (feel free to correct me)
Which is why I won't be buying from them
The way I see it we shouldn't be paying extra for HD. There's no need at all given the size of Apple and their servers.
At least Freesat (free HD) has the right idea.
Its great they've finally brought HD TV shows the UK. Here's hoping more shows will follow. I don't get the moaning about the pricing? if you get a coffee from starbucks in the US it costs say $2 or $3. If you get a coffee in the UK its £2 to £3 pounds. Same as dvds. In the US they are $10-$15 and here they are £10-£15 People don't moan about that. So why moan that downloads are priced in a similar manner?
Oh, and for anyone into HD TV shows, just google 'US iTunes account' I buy my US vouchers from ebay and at the current exchange rate my HDTV shows work out 59p an episode
Oh, and for anyone into HD TV shows, just google 'US iTunes account' I buy my US vouchers from ebay and at the current exchange rate my HDTV shows work out 59p an episode
