iTunes 8: HD TV Shows, Grid View, Genius Playlists, NBC

[AliensAreFuzzy]

Hooray for HD TV shows! I'm excited to download iTunes 8. Now I'm going to obsessively compulsively check for the download until I have it.

 

[MacRumors0108]

Let's Rock?

This event should have been called "All the stuff we shoulda been doing all along". Thanks for not making me sync my iPhone when I go to bed each night because it takes 2 hours. Did we really need a press event for this?

No 32GB iPhone? I'm still waiting.

 

[johnnyjibbs]

Can't wait. Hope it's updated before I go to bed tonight.

I liked Job's jokey takes on all the rumour leaks (which appeared to be pretty accurate), his joke of Bloomberg's obit blunder and, of course, his direct and gentle letting down of people expecting new MacBooks today ("I would like to remind people hat music events are about music")

Good stuff. Just what we were expected.

Anyone disappointed should not get too boiled up in the hype. MacBooks will come soon.

iPhone options lacking though - do we get genius too?

 

[mogzieee]

Shall be downloading this once its available.... Genius sounds awesome.

 

[CWallace]

When they say High Def. Is that 1080i/p or 720, hope it's 1080p?

I expect it is 720p due to bandwidth.

 

[Tilpots]

Not usually one to do this, but screw it:


BOOOOOOOO


What the heck was "so important" about that event???

 

[Akira1980]

My Apple TV would like the thank iTunes 8 for HD TV shows!

 

[iBug2]

Was hoping for updated Mac Pros. Guess I'll wait a little longer. This is the longest they've gone though without an update I believe.

The first gen mac pro's did stay 18 months or so. The Penyrn Mac Pro's are comparably quite new. I wouldn't expect an update to them before macworld 2009.

 

[haztastic]

Zune look-a-like?

Isn't the shape of the ipod Nano's remarkably similar to the Microsoft Zune now:

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_ipod/family/ipod_nano?mco=MTcyODE5Mw

and

http://images.appleinsider.com/zune2-071003-1.png

 

[NitrousFlare]

Is the only difference with the old and new shuffles the colors?

EDIT: yes it is.

 

[saxman]

NBC is back. *laughs*

Spin up the FTL.

That was my thought exactly

 

[APPLENEWBIE]

Yawn..... Even if the new Nano had not been leaked... "Gee Wally, it looks just like my old Nano".

iTunes 8: nice incremental changes, nothing earth shaking.

iPod Touch: Fixed what should have been there in the first place: volume controls and a speaker.

iPod Classic: .....

Hey big news! Apple sells movies and tv shows! Who knew? (everyone)

 

[Aegaeon]

Ha

I'm still laughing at how NBC came back to iTunes. Looks like they finally got through their thick skulls where the bulk of their sales came from.

 

[gugy]

let the whining begin....

 

[Spades]

Anybody know what the pricing is for HD season passes? Or if they even exist?

 

[X86BSD]

2.99 for HD?

I pay 2.99 for a full hour and a half movie for 24 hours.
They now want me to pay 2.99 for a 30 minute show in 720p?
Ummm yeah. I buy few shows now at 1.99 unless I really want to support the show. Otherwise I am right back to streaming them off the net for free.
I am thinking .50 for TV shows in SD and .99 for TV shows in HD.
Good luck getting me to pay more than a dollar for any show when I can get the same thing for free off the net. I'm probably the minority though.

 

[plumbingandtech]

I love it.

People here read all the rumors in the run up to the event.

Then when most of the rumors turn out to be true, people complain that the event was boring.

 

[mainstreetmark]

New iTunes, HD TV shows, New Nano, iPod Touch that is the same as the new iPhone?!?!?!?!?!

These get more and more disappointing each time.

...because you already got all this info from macrumors.com ahead of time?

 

[sishaw]

Not dissappointing, but overhyped

If it hadn't been so overhyped, I think these would be considered nice announcements. Apple are masters at using the media!

 

[blurredline]

I just want to know if any of these good TV shows will be available in Canada

 

[ahasver]

nothing exciting

That was not by any means groundbreaking but oh well lets build up the excitement for Macworld. I heard they would release a laptop that is invisible...

 

[bobrik]

Where's the "big deal"?

Is it just me asking "So where the f*** is the big deal"?

 

[noel4r]

This was supposed to be a big deal event? Seriously, they could've just done a press release. "Let's Disappoint"

 

[Kardashian]

Harhar at NBC. I hope their shows don't even sell as well as they were before.

And dear me, am I the only one shocked at how thin that poor man [Steve] looked?

 

[Bengt77]

I want my MacBook. Where is my MacBook? Can I have my MacBook now? Where is my MacBook?

Lame.