Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.today announced it has made current episodes of the hit science fiction/adventure series Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis available for purchase and download from the iTunes Music Store.
Effective today the first five episodes of Stargate SG1 season 10 and the first five episodes of Stargate Atlantis season 3 will be available for download and subsequent episodes for both series will be available within 24 hours after airing on the SCI FI Channel.
“By making these popular series available through iTunes we’re able to extend the reach of the MGM brand and the Stargate franchise,” said Doug Lee, MGM’s executive vice president, New Media Division, in the press release. “We’re always delighted to enhance the consumer’s experience of our popular content and see this as a win all the way around.”
The deal marks the first step in MGM’s strategy to expand its electronic distribution footprint globally with more announcements expected in the future. Since forming the New Media Division in April of this year and the recruitment of Lee to supervise it, MGM is now positioned to expand in the new media world, which will bring upside potential for the company’s library.
Click here to view Stargate SG1 via Apple’s iTunes.
Click here to view Stargate Atlantis via Apple’s iTunes.
Still not buying til I can get higher res versions of the shows.
still not buying i cant get videos at all in uk lol
I agree 1000000% on macromancer’s comment about the quality. Come on apple, you invented quicktime, you better than anyone should know how to use it and blow away the world with it’s quality. I bought a few episodes of LOST, still waiting for my money BACK! As it is now there’s little need for the DRM, who would want such a shitty copy.
And at the same time Stargate SG-1 has apparently been cancelled.
Still not buying till I can get higher res versions of the shows.
Your going to be waiting awhile, the iTMS content and price is designed to fill iPods.
I don’t know if you’ve recorded any HDTV, but it eats hard drives like a kid eats candy on Halloween night.
MGM? Sony bought them out a couple of years ago.
I’m buying, BUT, I want to have the same or similar rights to copy onto DVD as with iTunes music onto CD. I want to walk my iTunes videos downstairs to my main entertainment system and share them with the family in a large comfortable space.
Still nothing in the UK, come on Apple, do some work over here.
Wow, I’m shocked it got cancelled. The creators were discussing plans for the next couple of seasons, but GateWorld.com has confirmed that SG-1 has been cancelled while Atlantis has been renewed. It was never the same without a Jack, but still a good show.
YYYEESSSSSSSS!!!!!
THX A LOT!!
hope they put up all seasons of SG-1 and Atlantis
cancelled is NOT good.
Nuttin for us content poor Brits
Ten seasons… At least they got passed episode #200. Time for a feature film. The show is called “Stargate SG-1.” It would be nice if they go back to actually using the Stargate to explore and tell some good sci-fi, instead of these epic season-long arc stories with more spaceships than Star Trek.
Hey Microsoft Zune –
Put that up your wormhole and shove it!
ken1w,
past – as in “At least they got past episode #200”
…sand there already is a feature film – the one Kurt Russel and Starring James Spader which preceeded the series.
Awesome! Now if only it was available to us Canadians.
As for SG1 being “cancelled”, I never expected it would go past 10 seasons anyways. That’s all that was originally planned for- I remember watching the creators in the special features on the DVD sets talk about how they basically just want to get it to 10 seasons.
I think the show has had a healthy run and it’s better to stop it now while the show is still good than keep it going and slowly run it into the ground. They’ve done a good job keeping the show going without RDA, but the plotlines are getting tired and to me it seems like the show probably should have ended with the elimination of the Goa’uld & Replicator threats instead of this extra Ori plotline. I mean, the SGC has essentially fulfilled its standing orders in many respects (obtaining advanced technology to defend Earth against alien threats; they have starships now and alien allies). I think that once the Ori are dealt with introducing a new bad guy would just be pushing it. Better to hand the franchise off to Atlantis, which still has lots of room to play. And you never know, they might decide to create a third Stargate series independent of either previous show with new actors.
Joe, it’s filmed in Canada isn’t it. Seems ironic you can’t get it.
I want Dark Angel and Firefly. But not in that order.
Firefly is already in the iTunes Music Store. See here.
To the MDN Corrector-bot:
“At least they got passed episode #200.”
“passed” is correct. As in the verb “to pass” (to go across or through). “Past” is a noun or an adjective (as in “past” tense) with a different meaning; never a verb. Look it up…
@ ken1w: “passed” is correct.
Uhm, no it’s not.
Focusing on the words “passed” & “past” themselves, rather than the context in which they were used was a nice try, but you can’t do that mit English <grin>.
You would be right to say as in the verb “to pass” (to go across or through) if you had written something like “they passed the 200-episode mark”, but you didn’t. You wrote “got passed” and that’s another thing entirely. The correct word in that case would have been “past” and it would have been a preposition, not a noun or a verb.
BTW, I learned most of that because I did look it up (the Dictionary Widget) and I found almost the exact wording of your post, albeit using the word “past”.
As this medium does not lend itself to either ‘tone’ or inflection, please know that there was no ‘flaming’ intended nor am I trying to be pedantic or pejorative. I just wanted to throw my support behind Correct-bot since I’m trying to suck-up to Bots as much as possible before the Great Machine Revolt starts.
cool. and when do we get this in Europe? Why is Apple so US oriented, say?
Stephen,
Could it have anything to do with the country in which they were founded and have their headquarters? Or, most likely, the hoops they have to jump through to appease various European countries?