Archive for May, 2008
Interesting Thing I Saw At My Neighborhood Apple Store
I know I always get flack when I criticize Apple in any kind of way and I am sure the same will happen for posting about this. But, I happen to be visiting my local San Diego Apple Store, at UTC specifically, and I couldn’t help by walk by the Apple TV display. To tell [...]
Sweeney Todd Now Available In HD
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is now available as an HD rental.
New Poll - Are You Buying Or Renting Movies?
Inquiring minds would like to know. Since movie purchases became available have you found yourself renting less and purchasing more or are you still a rental only kinda person.
To Podcast or Not To Podcast - That Was The Poll
Well, if I were a politician I would say that a 70% vote for a podcast would be a mandate to move forward. Of course only 127 people voted. But, I have decided to move forward in creating an official ATVJ podcast. After all, why not, what’s the worst that could happen? So over the [...]
Over Her Dead Body Now In HD
Over Her Dead Body is now available as an HD rental.
4 New HD Titles Tonight Including Lars And The Real Girl
4 new HD titles were added to Apple TV tonight including Lars and the Real Girl, Pitch Black, The Good Night and Waking Ned Divine.
Risky Business Along With Two New Titles Now In HD
Risky Business along with The Robe and A Fist Full of Dollars are now HD rentals.
Where In The World Is The Indiana Jones Trilogy?
If there was one benefit I was looking forward to from Apple announcing that movies would be available same day as their DVD release was the release of the Indiana Jones Trilogy. Sure we could argue about the quality of the download, but hey, we were getting OG Indiana Jones on the 13th of May [...]
Aliens vs. Predator:Requiem and Juno Now Available As HD AVD Rentals
Tonight Apple released Aliens vs. Predator:Requiem and Juno as HD AVD (Apple Video Download) rentals. Along with those titles we also get Casino and Immortal Beloved in HD.
Juno Now Available To Rent….Almost - Updated!
It looks like Apple jumped the gun with Juno being rentable and has now removed their claim from the banner in the iTunes Store.
According to the iTunes Store Juno is now available as a rental, all though as of this posting when you click on the banner it still shows up as a purchase [...]
Bonnie & Clyde Now Available In HD
Bonnie & Clyde was added to the list last night of available HD movies to rent.
This Weeks $.99 Movie of the Week - The Usual Suspects
For the week of 5-13-08 the Usual Suspects is the $.99 movie of the week.
HBO Content Now Available Through iTunes
It looks like the predictions were true, the iTunes Store is now offering HBO content. Six HBO series are available, Sex and the City, The Wire, Rome, Deadwood, The Sopranos and Flight of the Conchords. It looks like the pricing ranges from for $1.99 for Sex and the City, The Wire and Flight of the [...]
This Weeks New Releases To Look For
Well, we are getting to the point where we should start to see Apple release some of it’s digital video purchase only titles to rent, such as There Will Be Blood and Walk Hard. As of now, those titles are past the 30 day waiting period. We’ll see how long Apple holds on to to [...]
Two New HD Titles For the Weekend - Updated!
Updated - One more title to add, Field of Dreams is also now available in HD.
I hope everyone is having as beautiful Mother’s Day as we are having here in San Diego. We have a quick update with two new HD titles which showed up earlier this weekend, The Rundown and White Noise 2.
