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iTunes Australia Arrives

Finally!

At least its now hear for you all. I hope things will catch up and you will get more songs as time goes by, I can't imagine the labels etc being that stubborn to not get into iTMS for that long, when everyone else is enjoying it, at least I hope not.

Yes bring on the video store...for the UK too!
 
ingenious_7 said:
iTunes music cards will be available from all major supermarkets and department stores in Australia
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Coles Myer have exclusive sales of these until Feb 28 06...
so that includes Coles, Coles Express, Myer, Officeworks, Target, K-Mart, Bi Lo, Mega Mart, and Harris Technology.

still that is pretty good - 2500 outlets nationally selling them!

http://www.giftcards.com.au/itunes/

Shame our Apple resellers miss out until at least then though... given we have no Apple Retail store in Aust.
 
winmacguy said:
I know I posted the link earlier, right after they posted it on their site;)
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Translation: I was at work and could therefore spend the entire day looking at websites :p
 
skullsplitter said:
Seems weird the main post has all this NZ talk.

So...Manu and Gamima playschool episodes for viPod? Adventures of Utu?

Cool

(Taking piss)
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Followed by Close to home and Shortland Street;) :D :D
 
aafuss1 said:
We need Nickelodeon (Invader Zim, Sarvo-there's already a podcast) and ABC kids shows .
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Yeah, but most of those shows are OS shows, the aussie channels just have a broadcast license. They can't distribute them in any way.

Hang on.... BLOKESWORLD!!!

OK, you Americans will love this - it's a show, normally on about 11:30pm dedicated to the blue-collar sexist Australian stereotypical male. Every week there are pole-dancing segments, information about power tools, "pub judo" and last week's special story was topless go-cart driving. None of this is censored.

It's rude, crude and vile, embarrassing to both Aussie men and women alike and rates it's t*ts off in that timeslot....

Half hour shows, not a lot of quality required, perfect for the video section of our new Music Store.
 
winmacguy said:
Followed by Close to home and Shortland Street;) :D :D
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Stop and think about how many episodes of SS exist. I believe it's around 2000. Then multiply by what, 250 MB per episode? Bam, there goes 500 gigs of space! :eek:

Edit: According to TV.com, 3295 episodes have screened so far.

Edit 2: It's a half-hour show, so probably only 125 MB per episode.
 
Nermal said:
Stop and think about how many episodes of SS exist. I believe it's around 2000. Then multiply by what, 250 MB per episode? Bam, there goes 500 gigs of space! :eek:

Edit: According to TV.com, 3295 episodes have screened so far.
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Yikes!!

Imagine if they released Neighbours and Home and Away!!

We'd all need xServe RAIDs just to hold all that data. Mind you, I'm pretty sure that Neighbours and Home and Away are either out or coming out on DVD.
 
Nermal said:
Stop and think about how many episodes of SS exist. I believe it's around 2000. Then multiply by what, 250 MB per episode? Bam, there goes 500 gigs of space! :eek:

Edit: According to TV.com, 3295 episodes have screened so far.

Edit 2: It's a half-hour show, so probably only 125 MB per episode.
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Give me NCIS and CSI Las Vegas anyday:cool:
 
i'd hoped itms would fill the gap of australian artists not available on allofmp3, sadly its failed so far. checked a few of the bands and none were on sony :(
 
crazyjoeda said:
What bad prices. $1.69 Australian is $1.50 Canadian the Canadian music store sells songs for just $0.99 so 50% more.
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I'm sick of people bad mouthing prices. The fact of the matter is Australia has an entirely different economy from others. You can not directly compare the two as simply as that.

You got to take into consideration, standard of living eg, wages, power of the $1 and etc etc.
 
TV Shows

I was really hoping to be able to download TV shows. In all fairness... Lost and Desperate Housewives have both aired their first seasons here in Oz.

Hmm... well I guess it's cause the boxsets arnt available here yet but seriously!

- Den
 
$1.68 a song? This isn't gonna keep me away from cds/p2p...
Why? because I don't wanna lock my music collection into an apple ipod.

Maybe once it hits 25c a song.
 
That's a ridiculous price. The AUS dollar ain't much less than the CAD and we get songs for 99¢, just like the U.S.
 
booksacool1 said:
$1.68 a song? This isn't gonna keep me away from cds/p2p...
Why? because I don't wanna lock my music collection into an apple ipod.

Maybe once it hits 25c a song.
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As far as I know, JHymn is legal in Australia. You can use it to convert your purchased music to plain AAC, which you can then play on any compatible player.
 
most excellent! I was travelling today so only just got to see this. Kaiser Chiefs was my first purchase.
 
Bugger! New Zealand sign-in no longer works!

Hey fellow NZers iTunes has stopped working for me now :(

This morning I was able to create an account with my NZ credit card. I used an Ozzy billing address and it all went through without complaint. However, as of 9PM (NZ time) when I now sign-in it forces me to update my billing details, and this time around it won't accept my CC because "The payment card you entered is not valid for Australia..."

Oh well, guess back to waiting then :(
 
wolfywolfbits said:
Hey fellow NZers iTunes has stopped working for me now :(

This morning I was able to create an account with my NZ credit card. I used an Ozzy billing address and it all went through without complaint. However, as of 9PM (NZ time) when I now sign-in it forces me to update my billing details, and this time around it won't accept my CC because "The payment card you entered is not valid for Australia..."

Oh well, guess back to waiting then :(
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I guess it couldn't go on for ever:eek:
 
wolfywolfbits said:
Hey fellow NZers iTunes has stopped working for me now :(

This morning I was able to create an account with my NZ credit card. I used an Ozzy billing address and it all went through without complaint. However, as of 9PM (NZ time) when I now sign-in it forces me to update my billing details, and this time around it won't accept my CC because "The payment card you entered is not valid for Australia..."
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Wierd. I've just gone back in (10:05 NZ time) and it's still working fine for me. You sure you haven't just maxed your credit card? :)
 
Just qurious, what is that quality of the pay to download songs off AiTMS?

MP3, AAC, OGG?? what bitrate etc...?

Cheers
Jordan
 
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