iTMS Monthly TV Show Subscriptions

[~Shard~]

Agreed, American cable prices are out of control... I pay another $40 on top of that for my cable internet..ugh! When our area recently increased rates (again), they interviewed folks locally who weren't well off saying how bad this was because their monthly bill for cable was well over $100 and they couldn't afford that as it was hard enough keeping enough money to put food on the table. (Now, granted, that seems to indicate that many people's priorities are incorrect--if you literally have no disposable income, spending that on a premium cable package and having that a life 'necessity' sort of boggles my mind...Is our culture that intertwined with entertainment?)

Yeah, that's pretty bad. Thanks for the insight on that, and yes, very interesting what some peolpe put priorities on, and what they consider to be "necessities" in life.

 

[admanimal]

What I dislike about the service is it automatically downloads it when it checks. Typically I am at work in the morning when new Daily Shows will be released and I use iTunes here. I might have to disable the music store since I don't want to download the videos here at work. I sorta wish it appeared like podcasts do and new ones would appear and then you could click "Get" once when you were ready...

So...can't you just not click the Check for Purchases button until you get home? So far that's the only way I have found to download them too, which I am actually happy about because I was afraid it would download them automatically to my iMac or iBook since I usually use those before my Mini, which is attached to TV (and where I want the downloads to go).

 

[Essefgy]

So...can't you just not click the Check for Purchases button until you get home? So far that's the only way I have found to download them too.

Aha! Thanks for the tip. iTunes wasn't downloading the shows for me, and I was afraid I'd get charged if I clicked on Get Episode. Check for Purchases though worked perfectly.

 

[SilentPanda]

So...can't you just not click the Check for Purchases button until you get home? So far that's the only way I have found to download them too, which I am actually happy about because I was afraid it would download them automatically to my iMac or iBook since I usually use those before my Mini, which is attached to TV (and where I want the downloads to go).

Yes... however I don't know if it randomly checks every so often either. I know on occassion I open up iTunes and get the message that "There is no purchased music to download" on occassion without me asking it to check. Never really mattered to me until now...

 

[JonHimself]

HINT:
It's not your math that's wrong. It's the wrong context in which you interpreted Nebben123's post.

And on that humorous note [seriously, I can't stop laughing right now], I shall retire for the evening.

Good night, and good luck.

- MacQuest

Thank you for that lame oscars reference... I didn't really want to quote your whole post because the enlarged text was unnecessary at best.. but anyways, what I was getting at, was how is $20 for two shows (let's just go with 32 episodes of 2 shows) expensive?? What is that? Like 63 cents a show or something? I think someone said that... How could anyone think that 63cents/show is expensive??? Assuming that is true, then I think my interpretation is right because $20 for two shows is expensive (which is why I replied)... but $20 for 32 really is not expensive at all...

Regardless, I'm really glad that Apple is continually improving their iTMS through the multi-pass and the season-pass.

 

[MacQuest]

Thank you for that lame oscars reference...

"Good night, and Good Luck" really was a good and educational movie IMHO.

I didn't really want to quote your whole post because the enlarged text was unnecessary at best..

My apologies. It was late [2:38am] and it really tickled my funny bone at that time. I wasn't really laughing at you, rather at the slapstick-like incident itself.

...but anyways, what I was getting at, was how is $20 for two shows (let's just go with 32 episodes of 2 shows) expensive??...$20 for 32 [episodes] really is not expensive at all.

I totally agree with you. I don't think that this pricing model is unreasonable, especially for this type of show.

Regardless, I'm really glad that Apple is continually improving their iTMS through the multi-pass and the season-pass.

Me too. I can hardly wait to see what they offer for the feature film content distribution.