TV shows to cost 79p on iTunes?
Apple could be slashing prices of TV shows when it launches the iPad in March.
In a move that could see iTunes finally doing for TV what it did for music, downloads could be sold for $1 per episode, the same cost as a song. That’s 79p, if we use Apple’s, erm, "quirky" bureau de change.
Days after Warner CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr confirmed that hiking prices on iTunes had slowed sales, the Financial Times claims that "months of negotiations" led to the network deal. Apple, naturally enough, is keeping schtum.
It may be a deciding factor for dithering would-be iPad buyers, particularly people put off by the recent reaction of book publishers who are trying to push the price of eBooks up in anticipation of Apple’s new wunderkind.
What do you think? Does the prospect of paying 79p for an episode of Lost make you more likely to fork out for one of Mr Jobs’ tablets? How much do you want to pay for TV and movie downloads? Pin up a comment below.
Comments
stairmand
1 year ago
Why would you pay anything? You can use one of a hundred DVR's, Sky+, Virgin etc to record it when it's on, iPlayer, 4OD, Sky player etc for TV streaming if you forget. Downlooad for free from BBC and Sky.
nbudd
1 year ago
No! I'd be more inclined to buy an ipod touch. It does exactly the same with a smaller screen!
redbear85
1 year ago
I'm still waiting on news of this new iPhone that I've heard about for this summer before I make a decision on the pad.
burlton
1 year ago
That to me would be excellent, The existing prices are way way way too high. Whereas before I wouldnt buy tv episodes on itunes, at this price i would consider it. HD should be no more that 99p either!!
However not sure it sells ipads, I'm just as likely to get them oin my iphone or to watch via the computer. It wont hurt the ipad at all mind either!!
And Stairmand - I like Sky, but Sky is far from free and far from portable.
clivex
1 year ago
The problem with TV shows on iTunes in the UK is that it is UK content, not US. I want to watch US TV shows such as, say, Fringe or FlashForward when they are avialable in the US iTunes store, not the UK one.
I know I can get a US based VPN service to give me a US IP address (I am based in Portland, Oregon when I want to watch Hulu, for example) but I would also have to have a US iTunes account with postal address and US credit card billed to that address. Pain in the ***.
I guess I will have to resort to 'other means' to watch US TV shows in good time.
stairmand
1 year ago
"And Stairmand - I like Sky, but Sky is far from free and far from portable"
I hate Sky! But there are dozens of PVR's to choose from. Anyone that buy's TV shows on iTunes is IMO an idiot. There are plenty of ways to get the content for free, many much better than iTunes.