The iTunes rental store now offers weekend specials, just like your local RST Video. Thursday through Monday each week, one movie will rent for US$0.99, or US$3 less than usual. If we keep heading down this path, the next update of iTunes will bring streaming video of a crushtached geek who snickers at you when you bring You’ve Got Mail to the checkout. This week’s special is The Hours.
AU: One day, fellow Australian Gizmodians. One day…
Anonymous
Sunday, February 24, 2008 at 2:32 PMFellow aussies, here’s a friendly tip.
If you want to be able to buy and stream you movies legally from the US store, just buy iTunes US gift cards off eBay – they get emailed to you within 24 hours (usually) and it lets you set up a US store account (no, you don’t need a US credit card or address for this).
Ok so you pay a bit more for them but it probably ends up costing you the same as they will eventually charge in $A. The upside is you a) get access to it now and b) get access to the US movie library which is 1-2 months ahead of ours. There aren’t a HUGE selection of movies to chose from yet but more are being added all the time.
Personally, i’m picking up my ATV next week…