Apple Movie Junkie

Below is the list of new HD Rentals that have been added to Apple TV.

Update – I have been able to find both Towelhead and Hancock (Rated Version) as HD rentals in Apple TV, but not your normal way, this also may work for the few of you not seeing TDK as a rental. Just search for a particular movie which may share the same actors which are either in Towelhead or Hancock. In this case, Aaron Eckhart in Meet Bill and Charlize Theron in the Italian Job (2003). Once you are in either of those movies screens in Apple TV click on the “More” button. This will take you to the “More Info” page with all of the actors listed. In the case of Charlize Theron, highlight her name and on the right you will see all the movies associated with her, including Hancock (Rated Version). Select Hancock and you should be presented with the ability to rent the title in HD. Again this should also work for Aaron Eckhart in Towelhead. Yes I know, crazy work around, but I would be interested to hear if anyone else can repeat this little trick.

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As of this posting there are no new HD rental additions today, technically there are no new additions this week at all. This explains why Apple dumped so many movies toward the beginning of last week before the Christmas Holiday, a lot of people must be taking the holiday break off at Apple.

A few more interesting “Rental” events to pay attention to today will be, one, the new purchase title Towelhead is to be released today. According to the affiliate link I can create for this movie, we should be able to Rent this title and in HD on Apple TV. You can see a screen shot of the iTunes page below. But, if I try and either do a general search for this title or click on the title in the Coming Soon section it does not show as a purchase or rental title yet. We’ll see if this titles release goes as smoothly as TDK, so far it’s not looking good. I will list this title as an HD rental once I am able to see it in Apple TV as a rental.

Second, I am expecting Hancock to be released as a rental title as well today. Again you can see the screen shot below stating the release date, and again, based on Apple’s successful release of TDK and even problems with Hellboy II I won’t be holding my breath.

Head on over to the HD Rentals page to see this weeks entire list of new titles.

System is a fantastic show over at Revision3. Every week they do some DIY geek stuff that well gets me excited, and this week is no exception. On this week’s episode Patrick and Roger start a DIY video jukebox; part 1 shows you how to rip your DVD collection and make it playable on a media extender, and of course our favorite the Apple TV. So get on over and watch or better yet download the HD version right to your Apple TV.

Update: A few months ago I wrote about a program called DVD43. If you are a PC guy like me this is a must have using DVD43 with handbrake makes ripping and encoding a snap.