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February 29, 2008

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Lies, damned lies, and available rentals

Posted Feb. 29, ’08, 11:55 AM PT by Dan Pourhadi
Category | iTunes » iTunes Store

rentalsMovies1.jpgWhen His Royal Steveness announced iTunes movie rentals at Macworld Expo, he claimed there would be 1,000 available titles by the end of February. Which, coincidentally, happens to be today.

Ooo, spooky.

Can’t wait to get home and check out all the…wait, what? Chris “Geezer” Breen at the Mothership says there are not yet 1,000 rentals?! Whatchu talkin’ ‘bout, Chris? (running joke?)

Choose All Movies on your Apple TV and you’ll find 351 titles for rent. Dash to the iTunes Store from your Mac or PC and you’ll see that you can rent 378 titles if you use the All Rentals link. Use iTunes’ Power Search feature, however, and 399 titles appear. When you select iTunes’ All Movies link, 770 titles appear, the combined total of movies for rent and for sale.

Those bastards. I bought, like, a dozen cases of Orville Redenbacher’s Gourmet Popping Corn, enough soda to quench the thirst of a small nation, and one of those sweet reclining chairs with cup-holders and a built-in toilet. Now what am I going to do this weekend? Homework?

As if.

Apple also promised 100 titles “in stunning high definition video with 5.1 Dolby Digital surround sound.” Chris’s search turned up 91 HD movies, and not all with 5.1 sound.

Well, hey, they still have a few hours to meet their deadline. I picture a hundred frantic Apple employees using HandBrake to rip every DVD they could rent from Blockbuster/find at their homes to cram into iTunes before midnight. Clock’s ticking, gentlemen.


3 Comments

nwmike said:

"I picture a hundred frantic Apple employees using HandBrake to rip every DVD they could rent from Blockbuster/find at their homes to cram into iTunes before midnight. Clock’s ticking, gentlemen."

Now THAT'S funny!

February 29, 2008 12:59 PM
Dave-O said:

Maybe we need to use Apple's definition of "end of Feburary" which apparently is March 6.

February 29, 2008 1:19 PM
Isaac said:

Okay that's a funny post. Need more of those, guys. Thanks :)

February 29, 2008 2:14 PM

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