iTunes 9 Video Service Review Discussion

Apple's iPods and their associated iTunes store are the undisputed product leader in portable digital music sales, but is iTunes video ready to displace streaming services from Netflix and Amazon, or even good, old-fashioned DVD and Blu-Ray disks? We took iTunes 9 video for spin, including its rental service and brand-spanking-new Home Sharing feature, to see if Steve Jobs is poised to add the "market leader in notebook movie-watching" title to his Apple empire.

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Thanks for the review Jay!

I think I am going to stick to WMP or QuickPlay for that. iTunes is my music software, and I like it, but for movies, hmmm I am going to pass.

 

the hd version looks very blury here.. sure it's the right picture?

 

Another reason for the high system requirements is that Quicktime for Windows is not well-optimized.

And regarding Amazon's movie service... Amazon actually gives you the option to download the movie if you prefer that over streaming it. (However, Amazon's HD video at the moment appears to be just TV shows; their movies right now are SD only from what I can see.)

Anyway, I agree that iTunes is probably the best online HD Movie rental service around, if your computer can handle the playback well. Unfortunately, mine can't.

 

Excellent review, Jay. I have been using iTunes for years, it's a good piece of software in my experience. I have rented movies before and it's easy. Some movies aren't available for renting unfortunately; I wouldn't buy a movie on there because AFAIK there's still no way to burn it to DVD.