“Apple has at last begun a proper international roll-out of its iTunes Movie Store, and with it the Apple TV. Just five years after video was first available in iTunes, non-US customers can buy and rent films,” Charlie Sorrel reports for Wired.
“The extent of this new wave is not entirely clear. Spain has movies to buy and rent, and the rumors says that Taiwan, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Portugal, and Belgium are also on the list,” Sorrel reports. “There are a few non-US countries, like the UK and Germany, which already have access to video.”
Sorrel reports, “The Apple TV is also showing up in online Apple Stores.”
Full article here.
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Now if we can only have access to TV shows again…
Canadian domestic films and TV shows both in English and French have been available for some time. My AppleTV is also two years old… but I guess Canada is not considered foreign enough.
If this doesn’t work SJ is going to Xserve the AppleTV.
Few Non-US Countries? All countries except one is Non-US.
I think it should be “…Few countries other than the US”
Well I am not a native speaker…so I could be wrong…
No movies in Denmark today.
@Catseyeh
I’ve been to Quebec and Montreal a couple of times. It’s foreign enough. Pretty cold in January too (especially for a Southern California native)!
@Xavier: The way it is written is not wrong, but might have been phrased differently. The meaning is Only a few countries other than the US, such as the UK and Germany, already had the video access.
Italy too
australia
Luxembourg! The Vatican!
Remember when it was a hobby? Now finally, International roll-out and a low low pricepoint. Awesome.
Now if Apple gets movie downloads to work in the U.S. we’d be all set.
Last night I tried to rent a movie on my new Apple TV and it told me it would take 230 minutes to download before I could watch it.
I am not alone. Apple’s support boards are filled with people complaining that they have the same problem.
Movies have appeared this week in the Swiss iTunes store. However, Apple seem to have made a hash of it. On the Mac there is no separate list foe films as there is in the US/UK. You can search by name or you have to click on the revolving advert. Not that practical and I hope that’ll be fixed in the forthcoming iTunes update. Even worse is iTunes on the iPhone/iPad where there is also no list for films nor an advert and the only way to locate a film is to do a search by name! Come on Apple, you’re betterr than this! Oh, and can we have some books in the bookstore, too? We’ve only got the freebies, no new books at all!!
Here in ZA we don’t even have a propper App Store!
Further to my above post, I have now installed iTunes 10.1 and have, as a result, gained the ability to browse films through a separate list (we now have Music, Films, Apps Store, Podcasts, Audiobooks, iTunes U & Ping). This is still only the case on the Mac, though – the iPhone and iPad still lack this option but I guess that will be fixed in iOS 4.2 (the ability is there when I switch to my UK account, just missing on my Swiss one)!!
no new AppleTv in Belgium and no movie listing in iTunes
In New Zealand we have had movies for over a year but still no books in the apple book store. We have to use kindle.
Movies on the Swedish iTunes has been a rumor ever since Apple first launched movies on iTunes in the States. I dont believe it until I see it
@ron: Luxembourg & Vatican!!??
Nothing in the Luxembourg store at this time.
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The Vatican I have no idea yet, but those guys have special expectations anyhow
Just wondering if anyone knows of a program that is for video, like what iTunes is for music. I know iTunes does have the option for holding video files but it is only in mp4 or other similar Apple formats.
http://mysticwhite.org/
Well it is about time
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It’s bad already that iPhone 4’s seem to be all sold out here in Finland and there might not be any further supply before next year:(
Great news if it it’s true…
In Mexico we have movies to but no TV shows this week
A further update to my posts – as of this afternoon a “Films” list has appeared on my iPad, too! Woo hoo! I knew Apple wouldn’t let me down. Now where’s that iOS4.2…?
“There are a few non-US countries, like the UK and Germany … “
Aren’t they all countries in the world except the United States? What an awkward description.
> Few Non-US Countries? All countries except one is Non-US.
Too true. You probably have better knowledge of English than many native speakers, particularly in that one country excepted.