Apple In Talks To Bring $0.99 TV Rentals To iTunes

An anonymous reader writes "On September first, Apple will reportedly announce a new iPod Touch with a front facing camera, a refreshed Apple TV, and more interestingly, the arrival of $0.99 TV episode rentals on iTunes."

Comments

Re:Subscription service

[keeboo]

Production costs is a typical justification. Don't you think $3-4 million/episode is too expensive?
Personally, I don't even think Firefly was that great.

I'm willing to sacrifice fancy visual effects if that means an interesting story, instead of empty CGI porn.

Re:At 22 episodes/season, that's a fair price

[rtb61]

Lets think just a little, buy the DVD full season and after you have watched it sell it for about two thirds of what you paid for it or swap it with friends and don't forget you can watch it on your choice of hardware.

Lets be honest apple is showing it;s long term strips, overpriced hardware the can't be repaired and must be replaced and DRMed up the wazzo content that you can't buy and can only rent. The original DIVX http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX_(Digital_Video_Express) got slammed for exactly this kind of crap and died a well deserve red death. Now we can expect the apple marketdroid trolls to attack anyone that critiques while singing the praises of Steve Jobs.

Who are the apple marketdroids seeking to partner with none other than News Corp, the Fox not-News Network, so the message to the Rupert Murdoch, come with us we can sucker our market segment with 2 day rentals tied to a single device that only one person can watch at a time, pathetic.