Review: iTunes 99p Rental – Layer Cake

Review: iTunes 99p Rental – Layer Cake

The iTunes 99p rental. For many weeks now the bane of my existence, where once i looked with anticipation to discover what had been chosen, i now look with dread. Fatal Instinct, Surfer Dude, Starter For 10, just some of the rejects i’ve been subjected to.
Imagine my surprise, then, when i found that this week’s [...]

Review: iTunes 99p Rental – Scary Movie 3

Review: iTunes 99p Rental – Scary Movie 3

The way we watch movies is changing. In five years time, the studios believe, all our home entertainment will be delivered digitally. Apple know this, and already have a large quantity of movies available via iTunes and Apple TV.
To encourage us to try this form of media, every week iTunes offers one movie for rental [...]

Review: iTunes 99p Rental – Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen.

Review: iTunes 99p Rental – Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen.

The iTunes 99p rental – so good they do it every week. It’s easy, you go into the films section of iTunes, locate the movie picture that states ‘this weeks 99p rental’, point and click. It only takes 30 minutes to download on my computer, and my broadband is super-slow speed. It’s not surprising the [...]

Review: iTunes 99p Rental – Surfer, Dude

Review: iTunes 99p Rental – Surfer, Dude

Digital copy is the future. Apple certainly think so (well, they have to). To this end, iTunes hopes to slowly introduce their consumers to the ease of movie downloads by offering a rental every week at the ridiculously cheap price of 99p. You couldn’t even buy I Know Who Killed Me on DVD for that.
As [...]

Review: iTunes 99p Rental – Starter For 10

Review: iTunes 99p Rental – Starter For 10

You know the drill by now. iTunes offer a random film for cheap rental every week, I take the bullet and let you know if you’d be better off buying a can of Coke and a Twix.
I aim to raise the profile of the 99p rental, and it’s working already. Just six weeks since I [...]