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Television Shows Now Available on UK iTunes

£1.89 - Thats so expensive! I was expecting £1.29, I have had a look at the quality which seems quite rubbish, its going to be sometime before I buy any shows.
 
Donnacha said:
Nonsense, Canada is nowhere near as American as the UK - we've spent billions proving our puppy-like loyalty in Iraq, sacrificing hundreds of working class lads we might have actually needed if we didn't now have such easy access to Polish immigrants.

We in the UK deserve to pay $4 for American TV shows; if you want the same in Canada you'll just have to step up and put some effort into the next crusade - Iran is looking promising.
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lol:D
 
Needs some BBC shows on there. And they should be reduced price seeing as we pay TV license. Come on, who wouldn't want to download Top Gear to their iPods? ;)

And yes, I'll add to the whining, £1.89 is a LOT.
 
BlizzardBomb said:
Needs some BBC shows on there. And they should be reduced price seeing as we pay TV license. Come on, who wouldn't want to download Top Gear to their iPods? ;)

And yes, I'll add to the whining, £1.89 is a LOT.
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totally agree - if any BBC shows appear for that same pricepoint, that'll be utter nonsense..

also, not sure if BBC will appear due to their iPlayer etc...?

The price of a season is almost more expensive that you can buy the disc set on DVD!

Now if they were sold in HD... :rolleyes:
 
It's good that we're getting some progress on this matter. Here in Finland we only have Pixar Shorts on iTunes, that is according the front page, but when you click the link a windows opens and explains: The item you've requested is not currently available in the Finnish Store. !!!! Nice going....
 
Well they are the same price as music videos so this was expected.

Glad to see it up. Thats the main thing.
 
chas0001 said:
I was really looking forward to being able to download TV programs from iTunes in the UK. Unfortunately after looking at the prices I am beginning to have second thoughts. For a complete season/series of Lost (23 episodes) it costs £32.99 GBP to download via iTunes (about $61 :eek::eek:). I can buy the DVD for £34.99, have a much better quality picture and something can be played on any DVD player.

Does apple just remove the $ sign and replace it with a £.

RIP OFF BRITAIN :(
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YES exactly my thoughts, why is everything a rip off here in the UK...

Desperate Housewives iTunes VS Amazon UK

£32.99 x 3 = £98.97 for entire 3 seasons in iTunes.

£25.48 + £27.97 + £33.74 = 87.19 in Amazon UK for the DVD sets

Roughly a 12 quid difference where on the DVDs u get subtitles, higher quality etc etc!!!!!! UNACCEPTABLE!!

Although to be fair, I guess theyve cut out the tasking process of converting DVDs to digital files which is very convenient...sigh
 
It's a good job Jobs sees the AppleTV as a "hobby". There's no way people are going to go for the device (in the UK) at this rate.

As for the BBC they've firmly nailed their flag to Microsoft's pole, so to speak. You'll be lucky if you'll see the iPlayer come to OSX in the next year, though I suspect it's contingent on MS's cross-platform answer to flash (Avalon) that's coming. Don't hold your breath for that to come to iPhone/OSX ipods soon though.

As for the UK bashing. It's too easy to do whilst overlooking the good things Britain has to offer (like *culture*). We pay too much for everything though, that's a given.
 
emotion said:
As for the BBC they've firmly nailed their flag to the Microsoft's pole, so to speak. You'll be lucky if you'll see the iPlayer come to OSX in the next year
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I'm pretty sure the BBC has said it will make it available for Macs in "Autumn" 2007

While I agree that it's a very welcome move and a great step forward for TV shows in the UK store, I'd be very interested to see when the movies (and indeed the pricing) appear in iTMS too.

Has anyone actually bought any TV shows yet? I assume they are the same quality as in the US store?
 
dalvin200 said:
I'm pretty sure the BBC has said it will make it available for Macs in "Autumn" 2007
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You believe that date? The XP version only just works apparently. I give it at least a year before we see a proper non-beta launch for anything that will work on OSX. It relies heavily on MS drm which OSX doesn't have access to.
 
emotion said:
You believe that date? The XP version only just works apparently. I give it at least a year before we see a proper non-beta launch for anything that will work on OSX. It relies heavily on MS drm which OSX doesn't have access to.
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I didn't say I believed it ;)

Not really bothered anyway - from what I've heard about the iPlayer, it's more hassle than it's worth at the moment..

But that's for another thread :D
 
OMG!WTF!

...and stuff like that...

Don't teens just steal this stuff via bittorrent anyway ?

Nice effort but unless they put some content on that channel aimed at anyone over 13 they're not going to sell much...

BBC should license iTunes as a safe means of offering it's content to mac owners since they have criminally employed a Microsoft evangelist within a public funded organistation to be in charge of digital media distribution.

The fact is that the BBC iplayer does not work with macs - and I dare say will NEVER work with macs - and I dare say mac owners will be seriously suspicions about loading a time lapse process based DRM encryption engine onto their safe clean mac's...

They could easily make BBC content protected by fairplay in that it will only play via iTunes and Apple TV. I'd be seriously happy with that.
 
yes i agree the prices are a rip off , but hey least we got it before anyone else :rolleyes:

shows i want to watch -

Dr Who
Top Gear
24
Prison Break
X-Files
Star Trek
Heroes
Planet Earth
Any Micheal Palin Series ie ,.. round the world in 80day's ,Palin accross europe ect
Only Fool's And Horses
Red Dwarf
Blackadder
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liketom said:
yes i agree the prices are a rip off , but hey least we got it before anyone else :rolleyes:

shows i want to watch -

Dr Who
Top Gear
24
Prison Break
X-Files
Star Trek
Heroes
Planet Earth
Any Micheal Palin Series ie ,.. round the world in 80day's ,Palin accross europe ect
Only Fool's And Horses
Red Dwarf
Blackadder
Bottom
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you forgot Fawlty Towers mate
 
I think this is a good start. The prices are not that bad really. Sky anytime download service is more expensive and some of the files are rental only.

They just need to get more UK content on there and maybe reduce the price of some of the season pass prices. £50 quid for something is a little bit much.

All I need now is for the new nano to support video play back and I'm sorted ;)
 
timmillwood said:
Why? i think it is one of the best countries, yeh we have to pay a little more but we do earn quite a bit.

We do get free health care, it may not be that good, but ok for free!
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Actually if you work for a living you do not get free health care at all. Both you and your employer make National Insurance Payments.
 
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