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MGM adds movies to Apple's iTunes

updated 09:25 am EDT, Wed April 11, 2007

MGM now playing on iTunes

MGM Studios and Apple today announced that MGM is now offering titles from its catalog of feature films for purchase and download on the iTunes Store. Beginning today, iTunes customers will be able to purchase films such as "Dances With Wolves," "Mad Max," "The Great Train Robbery" and "Rocky," with other titles to be added in the coming weeks. MGM claims to have the largest modern film library in the world and has received 208 Academy Awards in its history, making it one of the biggest award winning collections of films in the world, according to the release. Apple also said that more than 2 million movies have been downloaded from Apple's iTunes store and that more than 500 movies are now available via iTunes.

"It's exciting to be bringing so many amazing films from our catalog to iTunes," said Douglas A. Lee, MGM's executive vice president of Worldwide Digital Media. "We have an unrivaled movie library and are looking forward to adding even more films in the future so users can take their favorite movies with them wherever they go."

Titles from MGM's collection of blockbusters and classics that will be available on iTunes will include "The Thomas Crown Affair," "Ronin," and the acclaimed musical "Lilies of the Field." Movies downloaded from the iTunes Store are downloaded in near-DVD quality at a resolution of 640x480 (up to 480, depending on the aspect ratio) and can be viewed on a computer, fifth generation iPod or widescreen TV with Apple TV.

The iTunes Store features the world's largest catalog with over five million songs, 350 television shows and, with the addition of the MGM catalog, over 500 movies. The iTunes Store has sold over 2.5 billion songs, 50 million TV shows and over two million movies, making it the world's most popular online music, TV and movie store.

 
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So?

04/11, 09:34am reply

With a Blockbuster membership and any number of free downloads, you could rip your own movies and copletely circumvent Apple's bullsh_t. QED.

Wake me when they release new desktops.

Monstermind

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Where's the 720p HD?

04/11, 09:54am reply

Where's the HD content we we promised?

sammaffei

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drm

04/11, 10:04am reply

Why does everyone blame DRM on Apple?

Apple neither invented the concept of DRM nor was the first to employ it. Apple's use of DRM is effectively mandated BY THE MUSIC LABELS AND MOVIE STUDIOS (i.e. the copyright holders). This doesn't even go into the fact that the whole point of DRM is to prevent people who DO NOT OWN THE CONTENT FROM ILLEGALLY DUPLICATING IT... kind of like you're doing.

lockhartt

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Videos for Canada Store?

04/11, 12:01pm reply

When will we start seeing video content for the iTunes Canada store? We have absoutly 0 video content for sale, even for iPod video

bleee

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Re: drm?

04/11, 12:31pm reply

Who's complaining about the DRM? How about the lousy video quality and less-then-acceptable sound quality (Oooh, its 2.1 stereo! How retro!)

On top of that, wake me when a lot more of the MGM and other studios large back-catalogs get released, and at reasonable prices with decent video. And I'm not just talking about some 30 year old stuff (wow, Rocky for $9.99, I bet you can't get a DVD of that movie for that much, or, well, OK, you probably can). I'm talking about the entire catalog, all the way back to the 20s and such.

testudo

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RONIN?

04/11, 06:31pm reply

Ronin is the best they could come up with to show in the banner? RONIN?--hHAHHAAHA

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