Bernews headlinesApple has added HBO to the iTunes store. Available so far are Seasons 1 and 6 of
The Sopranos, all of Sex and the City, and season one of Deadwood, The Wire, Rome, and Flight of the Conchords. Sex and the City, Flight of the Conchords, and The Wire are priced at the standard iTunes rate of $1.99, but The Sopranos, Deadwood, and Rome sell for $2.99. Boy, my Apple TV’s gonna be humming ….
OK, I take back what I said about Apple TV’s syncing problem with rented movies. While you can’t use the sync function to copy rented iTunes movies to your Apple TV, the solution (courtesy of the iTunes help section) turns out to be simple: just click on the Apple TV icon in your iTunes window, click on the Movies tab and the rented movie should show up with an option to “Move” it to your Apple TV and vice versa. Sorry, Mr. Jobs.
Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love my Apple TV but one quirk caused some gnashing of teeth in Chez Breezeblog this week.
I went to rent a movie one night only to find that the iTunes store was temporarily offline. No problem, I thought, I’ll just go an download it on my iMac and sync it later. After all, I have been able to watch purchased movies downloaded on both my iMac and a Mini with no problem and I have watched rented movies downloaded on the Apple TV on my iMac.
Well guess what? For reasons known only to Steve Jobs, you can’t sync rented movies from iTunes to your Apple TV. How dumb is that?! I’ve searched all the forums I know and no one seems to know why this is. So Cupertino, if you’re listening, please fix this. Oh, and how about a $3.99 credit for “This Is England” while you’re at it …
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