“Much to Hollywood’s dismay, home video watchers are increasingly disinterested in buying movies,” Peter Kafka reports for AllThingsD.
“But if you price these things really, really, low, you’ll find some takers. Hence a flurry of interest this morning when the Internet discovered that Apple’s iTunes store [sic] was selling all 8 Harry Potter movies for an astonishing $10,” Kafka reports. “Except it turns out Apple — or more precisely Warner Bros., which sets the prices for its movies — didn’t mean to practically give its stuff away.”
Kafka reports, “The $10 price is now gone, replaced by a cheap-but-more-plausible $60.”
Read more in the full article here.
i was about to buy but decided to wait a little
now i’ll get the blu ray whenever i decide to buy it
shh…. I used tool to rip the Harry Plotter CDs that I borrow from my local library for almost no cost except for negligible cost of gas. 🙂
You pirated the content and outed yourself on the internet. And you seem to be proud of both…?
Congratulations, you’re a thief.
Guys and Gals,
This is what I got when I neglected a simple “/s” at the end. I bought movie only from – iTunes, BestBuy (during Thanksgiving Sales), Target (its $5 movie special card board kiosk placed near where the checkout counters are), and Walmart (the huge $5 movie discount circular shape “dumpster”).
Good sarcasm doesn’t require the /s.
Your comment was so well crafted the /s was totally unecessary.
So what? That’s legal as long as you don’t sell or give to anyone. It’s called space-shifting.
I only buy Blu-Rays of stuff that bears repeated viewing (which means most Hollywood product today is not included) and of course the classics, TV shows and films that have special meaning to me. But I remember the days of buying almost every laser disc that came out such was the slow trickle of releases. Wished I’d saved my money then and bought Apple stock instead.
Somehow these things are always US store only……..
And if you buy the separate movies in the NL store, you get the ones with the staggeringly badly done -always on- subtitles or even far worse: lip synchronised!
I rarely buy movies in iTunes for this reason. When Apple can get their act together on this I’ll look at it again 🙁
Apple is a content distributor. Your issue is not with Apple but the content creator who seems to be purposely distributing lower quality content in iTunes.
The only BlueRay movies I will ever buy is anything directed by Uwe Boll. The most awesome director of massive epic films ever!!!
I hope that was meant sarcastically otherwise I fear for your sanity
I was fortunate enough to buy these at the $9.99 rate. First movies I’ve bought from iTunes, but couldn’t pass up such a cheap deal.
It wasn’t an error!
indeed. Marginal cost for the content is pennies, and the movies already earned obscene profits upon their first go-arounds. obviously the content owner can ensure every kid on the planet has the full collector’s set if he sets the price aggressively.
You know, this is a tactic Apple might want to learn. Aggressive pricing doesn’t cheapen the value of a product when the product is no longer fresh.