Apple Raises Movie Prices

WOW! 15 bucks for {censored} quality movies.

How about this instead http://www.amazon.com/Zoolander-Special-Co...0025&sr=8-1

and they wonder why AppleTv isn't selling.

charging per pause? waht the {censored}?

it's all about money

Surely it should be cheaper than DVDs, not more expensive.

I'd rather get a DVD and rip it to playback on my AppleTV or whatever else than be restricted by their DRM download.

I have only purchased two movies from iTunes, and they will be the last two. I have a half-terrabyte drive where actual DVD quality movies can fit, with breathing space. Who needs iTunes for movies?

well, now i will just use handbrake +MTR + lostify all the time

Allow me sum up movies on iTunes with a cliche, over-used internet image:

Craziness! Why would anyone do that, especially when you can run to Wal-Mart and buy the DVD for less than $15?

I don't think this kind of pricing can last, and charging for pauses?!? Are they not thinking past next fiscal quarter? This kind of control will not encourage people to download the legal copy. The studios seem to forget--movies from iTunes are not competing with DVDs as much as they're competing with the _free_ downloads that we all know where to get. If people are going to pay for them, then they need to be getting something better than what they can get over bittorrent. Otherwise, there's no motivation to go legal (unless you have a particularly powerful superego).

That's my 2 cents.

This just goes to show how money hungry and out of touch with the consumer the movie and music industries are. This is gonna fail spectacularly.

@ConMan, that was just want they wanted, and not what Apple is implementing.

I can see them justifying the price (Hollywoods on our ass, etc) but carge per pause wtf?

I can see them justifying the price (Hollywoods on our ass, etc) but carge per pause wtf?

and charge per pause :/ next they'll charge you for breathing... so beware when Apple starts buying air/bits of the atmosphere!

WHAT THE {censored}?!?

They could go suck a fat one.

Mega lolz at the picture. That's Magic right?

why the hell would i buy a crappy iTunes movie from their awful selection of i can find a cheap copy online and rip it?

the point of a program like itunes should be to make the overall end cost to the consumer less, and at ten bucks some of those movies looked attractive, but for fifteen bucks i dont see myself buying anymore movies. I think the MPAA and RIAA are right to want people to pay for the art that they produce, but they aren't willing to look at our grievences against them, they are blind to how we are right. If they offered the stuff for more reasonable prices and without all the encryption, think piracy levels would drop dramatically. cause thats why i download music, i cant afford it... and i believe there are two thieves in the equation, and the pirates are one, but the government and it's agencies are the other.

... and i believe there are two thieves in the equation, and the pirates are one, but the government and it's agencies are the other.

now THAT is a great point. Everybody talks about pirates (which is an absurd term anyway) but nobody talks about the fact that consumers are getting ripped off for a (mostly) mediocre product. When was the last time you bought a cd that had more than 2 or 3 good songs on it. Yeah that's worth 20 bucks. I've only ever bought one movie off of iTunes, and it'll be the last.

THere is convenience in downloading rather than having the DVD sent--so the prices should be about the same (better quality, slower delivery; worse quality, faster delivery).

However, 15USD is more than the 7USD to purchase these out of date movies here in the Swiss supermarkets, aside from the whole piracy issues....

Wow, $15. Apple is getting farther and farther from it's consumers it seems. Over priced iPhones (Man I love those commercials that make you think they are the first to have a smart phone, love my blackberry ), and now this? Rediculous.

the point of a program like itunes should be to make the overall end cost to the consumer less, and at ten bucks some of those movies looked attractive, but for fifteen bucks i dont see myself buying anymore movies. I think the MPAA and RIAA are right to want people to pay for the art that they produce, but they aren't willing to look at our grievences against them, they are blind to how we are right. If they offered the stuff for more reasonable prices and without all the encryption, think piracy levels would drop dramatically. cause thats why i download music, i cant afford it... and i believe there are two thieves in the equation, and the pirates are one, but the government and it's agencies are the other.

Agreed. Pirates. Ok, whatever. I have done it and many have. Why do people pirate? Simply: to much stuff to over priced. I don't buy cd's, well I do when they are of my favorite bands that are good. I will buy one song or so. I rent movies mostly, buy very few. Why? Crappy quality and not worth the cost. *shakes head* With all of Apple's success, it is sad they are doing stupid things like this.

When was the last time you bought a cd that had more than 2 or 3 good songs on it. Yeah that's worth 20 bucks.

Just last week actually.