Does anyone know why ITMS movie downloads are US only? Why does any company exclude the majority of its customers from buying its products? Even if it is licensing or whatever, I'd like to know.

And given that these have both been pre-orderable since the movie portion of iTunes debuted, this is news how?

@ andycotton: It is licensing, yes. Plus the fact that only Disney (and the incorporated Pixar, Miramax etc., part of Disney) had the guts to sign up to bring movies to iTMS, which is certainly due to the fact that Jobs sits on Disney board. The other studios sit and wait, partly because they are intimidated by big retail guns like Walmart, who don't want to see their DVD sales dwindling down.

These companies don't "exclude the majority of its customers from buying their products", you are very welcome to buy their DVDs. But online video sales are a relatively new thing, and the studios want to play it safe. It's just like the beginning of the iTMS for music - starts small, gets bigger soon. I have no doubt that Jobs will announce in his 2007 MWSF keynote that other studios slowly follow suit.

And @ hammer: You are more than right. Both Cars and Pirates were a big part of the marketing buzz when Apple announced movies on the iTMS.. Just goes to show again that journalistic quality doesn't mean a thing here on MacNN.

The article lacks the price of the movie download ...

And @ hammer: You are more than right. Both Cars and Pirates were a big part of the marketing buzz when Apple announced movies on the iTMS.. Just goes to show again that journalistic quality doesn't mean a thing here on MacNN.

Well, what does it say about Disney that they submit a new press release to re-announce that they'll be releasing their movies on itunes (not even saying they are released, but announcing they will be released).

And it must be nice to live in a world where you can check out every piece of content you might want to discuss to make sure you haven't discussed it in some sense many, many, many moons ago.

And what if MacNN didn't cover this prior to this point? Does it still not count? Should they only post things that no one out there has heard about? Technically, if you visit other mac sites before coming here, lots of stuff isn't 'news', since you've already known about it...

Actually, Cars wasn't offered except as a pre-order till today, i think their point is that its now fully available... The whole artical... it's 95% about Cars... One sentence even is about POTC... Strange.

WHAT is UP with MaCNN lately?? It's getting really annoying, including the use of "TO" where "TOO" belongs... my #1 Web-Peeve. "Gamer Scan on Hiatus"? -Then remove the friggin' button on top of main page! Sheesh.