UK, Canada can now download, rent movies from iTunes
- June 4th, 2008
- 3 Comments
Now British and Canadian users can download moves from the iTunes Store. The UK Store has a selection of 700 movies from Disney, 20th Century Fox, Paramount, and so on. Most of the major studios, it looks like. Even nicer, more than 100 of these are available in HD. The Cousins pay £10.99 for a new movie download (£3.99 library) and £3.49 for a new rental (£2.49 library).
Canada has a little more to choose from, with 1,200 movies available from the same lot of studios. New movie downloads are Can$19.99 ($Can9.99 for library) and new movie rentals are Can$4.99 (Can$3.99).
Both countries’ rentals expire is 48 hours.
To our British and Canadian readers I ask, how much do you care? I haven’t a whole lot of commotion about not being able to download movies off iTunes or anything, and I wonder if this will even appear on your radar. You also seem to be screwed on the price, but I bet you’re used to that by now.
via iLounge
Dave (Who am I?)
3 months ago
yes come on! finally!
Kevin Haggerty (Who am I?)
3 months ago
This is great! I’ve been considering the purchase of an Apple TV for a while, but was figuring I’d need to purchase US iTunes gift cards and set up a US iTunes account. With this announcement, I wont have to go through that hassle. Good deal. As for the the prices - yes, unfortunately we are used to this by now.
Matt (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Now, we just need to be able to pay with PayPal. That should only take Apple… what, like… 2 years to bring it to Canada?…