Comments on: HD Movies Now For Sale in iTunes

By: Aniello Nastasi

Aniello Nastasi — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 06:11:03 +0000

oh no! then we’ll have to leave the house!! haha

By: Aniello Nastasi

Aniello Nastasi — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 06:08:04 +0000

will it be the full 1080 pixel or 720p ?

By: DVD Movies Galore

DVD Movies Galore — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 03:19:52 +0000

Looks like i’ll be buying an external. Nothing like movies you can watch anywhere.

By: Jules

Jules — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:17:12 +0000

But at least you can’t scratch or damage the files, like the DVD (“just dropped a BD the other day and chipped it” Ooops!) 720p is just fine but they just need to be cheaper.

By: hassan

hassan — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:19:05 +0000

thanks for this topic

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By: jim

jim — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:26:32 +0000

Just so, you know the HD apple movies are in 720p and recorded in Dolby 5.1 compressed surround sound. Whereas Blu-Ray disks are 1080p video that is completely uncompressed and the audio is Dolby HD or DTS master audio, which is completely uncompressed up to 7.1, which provides the viewer with a far better home theatre experience.

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Time Warner: No Metered Broadband For Now, But We’ll Be Back — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:41:56 +0000

[...] downloads are requiring a larger pipe. In Apple’s case, they recently opened the gates for HD movie sales to Mac users (i.e., HD is not just for Apple TV owners), and could be a large beneficiary of more [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:46:56 +0000

Now they need iTunes Plus to have an Apple Lossless option. I’d be willing to pay extra for it. I have to imagine artists, at least, would like that to be availabe. Neil Young would, for sure. :-)

Link: http://new.uk.music.yahoo.com/blogs/cmu_blog/3/is-neil-young-rightshould-we-really-be-celebrating-the-mp3/

Or google “neil young mp3 sound quality” if the link gets filtered.

-Matt

By: Me

Me — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:47:51 +0000

Bluray will still be of higher quality of course.

The HD videos on itunes appear to be ~1.55gb, an impressive quality for a download service. A big step over what their standard videos.

I’m wondering, do their videos follow the itunes plus service? Or are they DRMed?

By: chrisduncanaudio

chrisduncanaudio — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:09:00 +0000

Phil: as far as audio format, yes, they do include 5.1 surround. However, I can’t find any info about the quality of the audio.

By: Lynn LU

Lynn LU — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:10:30 +0000

How can backup the movies I have bought from iTunes,and I want to burn these movies to DVD ,so I can watch them on TV.

By: freetvshow

freetvshow — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 03:53:58 +0000

I just love the idea of watching Quantum of Solace or any other movie on my iPhone 3G on the way to work, that’s awsome

By: Weekly App Store Picks: March 21, 2009

Weekly App Store Picks: March 21, 2009 — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:06:25 +0000

[...] in iTunes, HD movies are now available for sales and rental too. It’s great that we can reap all the benefits of HD via download, however the price [...]

By: Weldon Dodd

Weldon Dodd — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:26:47 +0000

I assume that these are essentially the same as the AppleTV HD Rentals which have been available for some time now (@Richard – that is what you were thinking of – HD rentals). Those have 5.1 surround sound. The video quality is decent, but still not as good as a disc on a good player.

By: steven

steven — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:53:30 +0000

I’m waiting to see what upgrades they make to the apple tv.
Hopefully online storage that will allow you to stream your owned content from apple and not have to store it locally.

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:52:47 +0000

No mention of the sound though, do these come with HD sound quality too, 5.1, 7.1 what? If there is no HD sound then Blu-ray is still the better option. A movie without it’s not much better than standard def.