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Lions Gate adds movies to iTunes

Lions Gate Entertainment has become the latest movie studio to partner with Apple Computer Inc. for movie downloads. The studio will add a portion of its movie catalog to the iTunes download store over the coming weeks. About 400 titles of the studio's 10,000+ library is expected to be available. The downloads will cost about $10 each. Both companies announced the deal on Monday.

Among the movies set to be available are Dirty Dancing, Chaplin, Rambo & Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Apple is slowly adding more studio support for its iTunes platform, that has already sold in excess of 2 billion songs since it launched in 2003. Its movie and TV show downloading service is reportedly strong, especially over the holiday period.



With giants like Wal-Mart offering movie downloads, dominating the online market will not be as easy for Apple as it was with music. Consumers also generally prefer to watch their movies on a proper television, making the iPod+iTunes tie much less effective with video content.

Source:
ZDNet

Written by: James Delahunty @ 12 Feb 2007 9:35

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• 8 comments

• georgeluv

  10 bucks is 9 bucks too high. everyone should adopt my vow to never pay for music or movies until songs are a penny and movies are a dollar and both are DRM-free. thats whats fair.

  12.2.2007 11:46 #1

• Gradical

  too bad that movies from itunes are as tiny as the screen, so it doesnt sound like such a great way to get video, id rather prefer full screen videos

  12.2.2007 12:13 #2

• georgeluv

  good point i forgot about that. they charge MORE for songs from itunes than they do if you were to buy the actualy cd and they charge 10 bucks for a DRM-ridden postage stam size copy of a movie, and then they wonder why so many people pirate stuff. a dollar a movie (in hd, not ipod) and a penny a song is what i will pay to never have to worry about warez again.

  12.2.2007 13:20 #3

• m3_chris

  A penny per song and a dollar per movie?? Get real.

  12.2.2007 17:27 #4

• borhan9

  For ten dollars a movie i rather go out and buy it for that much on DVD. I think ill give a miss to buying movies off downloads cause with DVD's you get special features and through a download you only get the movie id i am right.

  12.2.2007 18:50 #5

• webe123

  Originally posted by m3_chris:A penny per song and a dollar per movie?? Get real.
  Mabye you should get real. You think ten dollars is a deal? Think again.

  12.2.2007 19:03 #6

• plutorash

  That is why we have wonderful sites like this. So we can rip DVD's to .mp4's and CD's to .mp3's. That way we don't spend squat.

  13.2.2007 12:28 #7

• hibud

  netflix is the way to to go

  16.2.2007 07:36 #8