Expected Purchase Titles For This Week
Defiance (2008) (Expected Purchase Release Date 6-02-09)
The Fox and the Child (Expected Purchase Release Date 6-02-09)
Silent Venom (Expected Purchase Release Date 6-02-09)
Possible Purchase Titles For This Week
Revolutionary Road (Expected Purchase Release Date 6-02-09)
Expected Rental Titles For This Week
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Expected Rental Release Date 6-03-09)
The Canadian iTunes store is now offering TV shows in HD now (finally!). Not only that, some of the premier TV shows are now available for the first time, such as Heroes, House, Lost, etc. Previously, these shows were not even available in SD from Canada. The networks that are now available are: ABC, Fox, NBC, and Warner Brothers. The need for keeping a U.S. account for Canadians is disappearing over time. Once we have near-parity, no need for those US iTunes gifts cards!
Now the (somewhat) bad news. Each HD episode is $3.49 CDN and a typical season of HD will set you back $60-$70. SD shows are $2.49, seasons are $40-$50. These rates are in keeping with the US/CDN exchange rate but don’t follow the typical iTunes music policy of $0.99/1.29 in each country regardless of exchange rate. I suppose this another concession Apple had to make to the TV/movie studios. It also seems that only the latest/current seasons are available in HD.
It seems as though, as of this morning anyway, that Apple has removed the A to Z listing of all of the HD rentals on the Apple TV. I’m not exactly sure what Apple might be trying to achieve here other then to make it as hard as possible to find HD rentals. My guess is that some sort of maintenance is happening. This list is just one of the ways we here at ATVJ gather the daily list of new movies. If anyone else sees a change to this listing on the Apple TV please pass the word along.
The History Channel’s Expedition: Africa is now available in HD from the iTunes and Apple TV. The Making of Expedition: Africa is also being offered as a free HD download.
Head on over to our HD TV Shows page to see the entire list of available HD TV Shows.
Apple Movie Junkie, formerly Apple TV Junkie, is the official blog of Cinemira. We provide a helpful service for users of the iTunes Movie Store and the Apple TV. AMJ was born out of a surprising shortcoming on the Apple TV after noticing that there was no easy way to find a list of all new HD & SD rental titles released on a daily basis. AMJ fills that niche with a daily list of new movies.
