Comments on: An Open Request to Apple: Rent Shows Through iTunes

By: Karsan Nakliyat

Karsan Nakliyat — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:49:27 +0000

hımmm … I agree with harkjohnny. Boxee is the way to go. Works great for me…

By: Pay Rent Online

Pay Rent Online — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:51:49 +0000

No, you all have got to try this program called Graboid. It is awesome. I don’t go to blockbuster at all anymore.

By: harkjohnny

harkjohnny — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:10:05 +0000

@jeff, I could only be happier with my setup if I could have MLB.tv :)

I ditched satellite 18 months ago and never looked back. everything I need/want to watch is available on the net for download, works wonderfully streaming to boxee on my AppleTV and looks pretty fantastic on my 42″ plasma.

By: jeff reff

jeff reff — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:08:05 +0000

I agree with harkjohnny. Boxee is the way to go. Works great for me.

By: Spencer Schoeben

Spencer Schoeben — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:50:01 +0000

I certainly think that their needs to be a way to rent a “season pass”. That would rock. Though, renting an episode would be stupid. They could implement something where you can only have 3 episodes at a time or something. That way, it would be a little more under control.

By: Joshua Parker

Joshua Parker — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:27:42 +0000

Wow, I was thinking about this for some time now. Spending $2 per episode of House can get expensive. Being able to rent a show or series of shows would be great. If Apple moves in this direction, then I would cancel my Netflix for sure since I am not renting as much as I used to.

By: Grant

Grant — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:18:25 +0000

http://www.apple.com/appletv/

By: James

James — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:31:11 +0000

I doubt we’ll see a full move to TV episode rentals any time soon, but is there a happy medium? Maybe something along the lines of bundling multiple episodes together for a rental the price of a movie. That way, it wouldn’t cut into the TV episode sales too much, but would still offer a rental service more similar to a DVD, where multiple episodes are packaged on one disc. I can see networks getting behind this with less kicking and screaming.

By: dave

dave — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:10:34 +0000

and everyone who currently buy their TV shows thru iTunes would switch to renting instead.

as far as I can tell, people currently buy TV shows because there is no option to rent. they have no real requirement to keep it after they have watched it, whereas movies are treated differently – TV is far more disposable than movies.

I have always thought of TV thru iTunes as a premium-priced service and I knew immediately that I would never use it, but that is because I have other options. however, were they to turn it into a cheaper DVR-replacement-like service, that would be a different matter, although probably not as easy to achieve as you may think, given all of the costs involved.

perhaps we will see this in the near future. Apple seem to be arranging their tech for a further attack on the home media space. I’m surprised that we still haven’t seen an LCD with integrated Apple TV + other goodies branded as the home TV.

By: Panny

Panny — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:01:40 +0000

Really want rental of TV shows and… if somehow they could stream some live events too I would do away with cable/satellite. That would be a MAJOR breakthrough for Apple TV.. not to become a PVR but to REPLACE cable/satellite.