Apple adds movies to iTunes Store in Australia and NZ

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Apple adds movies to iTunes Store in Australia and NZ

Apple has announced that movies from major film studios are now available for both rental and purchase on the iTunes Store in Australia and New Zealand. Over 700 films from 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., MGM, Sony Pictures Television International and Lionsgate are now available, and new release titles will be available for purchase on the same day as their DVD release. Pricing in Australia starts at A$9.99 (~$8.77) for catalog title purchases, A$17.99 (~$15.79) for recent releases and A$24.99 (~$21.95) for new releases. Rentals are priced at A$3.99 (~$3.50) for library title rentals and A$5.99 (~$5.26) for new releases, with high definition versions costing one dollar more. In New Zealand, pricing starts at NZ$9.99 (~$7.00) for catalog title purchases, NZ$17.99 (~$12.70) for recent releases and NZ$24.99 (~$17.60) for new releases. Rentals are priced at NZ$4.99 (~$3.50) for library title rentals and NZ$6.99 (~$5) for new releases, with high definition versions costing one dollar more.

“Movie fans in Australia and New Zealand can choose from a great selection of over 700 films for purchase and rent on the iTunes Store,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of Internet Services. “iTunes provides an incredibly easy and fun way for people to discover and enjoy movies, and has quickly become the world’s most popular online movie store with customers renting and purchasing over 50,000 movies everyday.”

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Movies are unavailable from Apple TV at this time. I rang AppleCare to find out why. They said that we need an Apple TV software update to add this support. I’m hoping it comes soon.

Posted by Japester on August 14, 2008 at 5:21 PM (PDT)

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I am very happy that we now have movies. I bought one and was surprised to see that the content rating was not embedded in it. I used Lostify to add it. I’m sure this is a glitch, as I would imagine Apple would be legally bound to provide the content rating with the file.

Posted by Japester on August 14, 2008 at 5:23 PM (PDT)

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