http://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/02/where-are-the-hd-movie-rentals-in-itunes/ Engadget HD Comments for Where are the HD Movie rentals in iTunes? http://hd.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://hd.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/02/where-are-the-hd-movie-rentals-in-itunes/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/02/where-are-the-hd-movie-rentals-in-itunes/Apr 2nd 2009 4:51PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/02/where-are-the-hd-movie-rentals-in-itunes/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/02/where-are-the-hd-movie-rentals-in-itunes/Apr 3rd 2009 9:00PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/02/where-are-the-hd-movie-rentals-in-itunes/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/02/where-are-the-hd-movie-rentals-in-itunes/
You've always been able to rent in HD. The window for any rental is usually 30 days from DVD relase (SD or HD).

The big news was HD purchases, which just became available..]]>Apr 2nd 2009 5:38PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/02/where-are-the-hd-movie-rentals-in-itunes/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/02/where-are-the-hd-movie-rentals-in-itunes/Nope, you could rent HD using the AppleTV, but not on iTunes.]]>Apr 2nd 2009 5:56PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/02/where-are-the-hd-movie-rentals-in-itunes/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/02/where-are-the-hd-movie-rentals-in-itunes/Apr 2nd 2009 5:54PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/02/where-are-the-hd-movie-rentals-in-itunes/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/02/where-are-the-hd-movie-rentals-in-itunes/Apr 2nd 2009 5:59PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/02/where-are-the-hd-movie-rentals-in-itunes/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/02/where-are-the-hd-movie-rentals-in-itunes/It was not Apple's fault technically.
It was the studios unease of having the HD content on a PC for rental price, that could be potentially hacked.
A theoretically easier proposition than rental content sitting on the AppleTV device (without a keyboard, mouse, ability to load software, without some major hacking).

I'm not sure what changed...Hopefully the 24 hour limit goes next. That is my largest barrier to renting from AppleTV right now.
]]>Apr 2nd 2009 6:48PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/02/where-are-the-hd-movie-rentals-in-itunes/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/02/where-are-the-hd-movie-rentals-in-itunes/Same thing on the AppleTV, the "for sale" titles are listed right below the "for rent" titles, staring at you only for you to buy and not rent for 30 days...

Just makes you want to go rent a disc, or god forbid - bittorent the file already.
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Apple delays offerings of HD rentals on mac/pc's to push purchases that i don't believe most people would buy.

Apple delays blu-ray integration and calls it a "Bag of Hurt" funny because Microsoft, Dell, Samsung, Compaq, HP, Sony and tons of other companies have worked it out just fine.

and yeah, i'd like to see the rental playback period extended to 48 hours from 24, it just sometimes isn't enough time. in a world when many of us have kids and work... it can be hard to get back to finish watching a movie.]]>Apr 3rd 2009 11:57AM