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iTunes Movie Rentals and Front Row???

Cyroceon

Cyroceon

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Feb 9, 2008
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Can they be played this way? We know that Front Row can access iTunes because it shows the Top 10 Movies in the Movies Section, but when I rented a movie last night, it didn't show up there. Is something wrong? If not, why hasn't Apple came out with a fix for it.
 
Cyroceon said:
Can they be played this way? We know that Front Row can access iTunes because it shows the Top 10 Movies in the Movies Section, but when I rented a movie last night, it didn't show up there. Is something wrong? If not, why hasn't Apple came out with a fix for it.
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aaaaaahhhh... don't worry, Front Row Update 2.2 will come full of goodies like: Movie rentals, iTunes Online Store, Continuos playback when it has quit, etc.;)
 
anti-microsoft said:
aaaaaahhhh... don't worry, Front Row Update 2.2 will come full of goodies like: Movie rentals, iTunes Online Store, Continuos playback when it has quit, etc.;)
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When do you think? Is there any speculation online about this update? I'd love to see it, because that would be awesome.
 
And still waiting...

When are they going to do something with Front Row? I love it, but geez...a few more features wouldn't kill them :) Especially now that it no longer even matches Apple TV.
 
I'm speechless

OMFG. I just set up one of my minis recently to use as a dvr/media server/wanna-be-apple-TV and am SHOCKED and saddened that you can't at least PLAY rentals via Front Row - I mean WTF? Really.
Googling around this is a long running gripe with users -- Hell, by now we should have full-on apple-tv -like functionality via Front Row -- browse, rent, and view ITMS content -- the whole sha-bang.
I've now read many a BS excuse for why Apple hasn't done this to-date. Most pseudo-technical mumbo-jumbo. Come on. There's NO technical reason at all why this can't be done. In fact it should be incredibly simple for Apple to make this happen. I can only see 2 reasons why not yet -- Apple can't spare the development resources and it's not a priority --OR-- they don't want to cannibalize AppleTV sales. I own an AppleTV and use it on our 109" theater setup. I also own 3 minis and a load of other Macs and would like to NOT have to but another box to put under my home-office entertainment setup. I like what my mini is doing and I'd just like it to do a bit more with Front Row. I bitched through Apple Feedback -- you should to.
 
Dec 30th, 2009

And we're still waiting...

Kind of annoying to have to go into iTunes and start playing from there. At least it dims the second screen when you go full screen, though.
 
Still no movie rentals in front row. I wonder if it's because Apple wants to push people to use Apple TV instead?
 
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