AppleInsider Staff"We've got an incredible Fall 2008 TV lineup with over 70 primetime comedies and dramas, including many of the most popular shows on TV in stunning HD," said Eddy Cue, Apple's vice president of Internet Services. "With over 200 million episodes sold, iTunes customers have proven they love watching television on their computer, iPod, iPhone and TV with Apple TV."
The iTunes Store features the world's largest online catalog of TV programs with over 70 primetime comedies and dramas from the major networks and television programs from over 70 cable networks including Bravo, Comedy Central, Disney Channel, ESPN, FX, HBO, MTV, Nickelodeon, Sci Fi, Showtime and USA.
Apple said the list of HD programs now available on the iTunes Store includes ABC's "Brothers & Sisters," "Desperate Housewives," "Dirty Sexy Money," "Eli Stone," "Grey's Anatomy," "Life on Mars," "Lost," "Private Practice," "Samantha Who?" and "Ugly Betty." CBS programming includes "CSI," "CSI: Miami," "CSI: New York," "NCIS" and "Numb3rs." FOX shows include "Bones," "House," "Prison Break" and "Sons of Anarchy," which airs on FX. NBC shows include "30 Rock," "Heroes," "Kath & Kim," "Knight Rider," "Law & Order: SVU," "Life," "Lipstick Jungle," "My Own Worst Enemy" and "The Office," and SCI FI Channel's "Battlestar Galactica" and "Eureka," and USA Network's "In Plain Sight," "Monk," "Psych" and "The Starter Wife."
Standard definition television shows on the iTunes Store are $1.99 per episode, while HD programs from ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX are $2.99 per episode. Many series offer a season pass option which allows customers to purchase entire seasons at a discounted price.
The iTunes Store digital media catalog now spans over eight million songs, over 30,000 TV episodes and over 2,500 films including 600 in high definition.
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great, now let us rent HD movies on our macs wo needing Apple TV. And let us rent tv seasons instead of having to buy them. Oh, and "first".
BEWARE
If the show or movie you want from iTunes does not have CC
on the title page, there is no captioning at all.
for most of us who are hard of hearing, CC is vital to have.
all of the movies and shows do have CC, but iTunes strips it out.
do not pay for iTunes shows or movies that lacks CC
i have repeatedly told Apple about this, but have not received a response from them yet.
rogerborn
What about enabling people outside US (eg. in Switzerland) to purchase and rent movies thorugh iTunes? PLEASE!
What about getting something done about the DRM issue on iTunes music first? There are far more people who download (or try to) music from iTunes than AppleTV watchers.
How is it that years after DRM free music was "just around the corner" nothing has changed at all? There are even independent labels that have long been in favour of DRM free music that still have FairPlay on all their iTunes tracks.
And what about Amazon and the other sites that have the DRM free music? Let's see a law-suit against the music oligarchy Apple. iTunes is pretty much the least "free" music supplier there is these days.
What about enabling people outside US (eg. in Switzerland) to purchase and rent movies thorugh iTunes? PLEASE!
That is a very slow turning wheel. The problem there is that distribution rights are often sold off piecemeal by country, so you're dealing with a different company to negotiate those rights for each country. The old media companies just don't get it, and that's who Apple has to deal with.