“Apple has quietly activated TV show purchases on the Apple TV for owners in Canada, the UK and Australia, adding outright buying options to the existing iTunes rentals,” Chris Davies reports for SlashGear.
“Until now, Apple TV boxes outside of the US had only been able to stream TV show rentals bought through iTunes,” Davies reports. “Now, there are reports from Canada, the UK and Australia that those limitations have been lifted.”
Davies reports, “There’s no official word from Apple on the new functionality, only reports from owners waking up to find their Apple TV has a new skill under its belt.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
Wasn’t a biggie for this Canuck as having a US iTunes account in addition to my Canadian account provided flexibility for media consumption. All kinds of ways to set up a US account. I hate bureaucracy.
How where you able to set up a US account with credit card?
I have some friends in Canada and I was wondering if FaceTime is free between our 2 countries, email is but cell time isn’t.
I wanted to know before I tried to talk some friends to convert to apple. Thanks for any suggestion.
Bill, as FaceTime used WiFi or other non cellular Data, it is free till you hit you ISPs data cap.
Just checked my box and no update available or TV Shows to rent… 🙁
no update for me too in canada 🙁
Latest update unchanged for me in Canada