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Extend 24 hour movie rental period on iPods
Authored by: rgray on Fri, Jan 25 2008 at 4:40PM PST

Can someone explain the "advantage" of renting a movie from iTunes for $3.99/24hrs over the $2 I pay at the corner store where I can (within reason) have it as long as I want....???

I prefer online rentals
Authored by: keaka on Fri, Jan 25 2008 at 8:06PM PST

I only pay $2.99 for my iTunes rentals, not $3.99 (I haven't rented new releases).
The nearest store where I can rent a DVD is a 10 minute drive, whereas I can start watching my iTunes movie in 30 seconds.
If I rent a movie from a physical store, I have to remember to do the 10 minute drive back to the store to return the movie. Gas, traffic, pain in the butt. I might even lose the DVD and have to pay for it.
At the physical store they tend to be out of copies of the movie I want to watch. If iTunes has the movie listed, I can watch it. There is no such thing as "out of stock".
I've rented DVDs that had scratches, so they played poorly and were basically unwatchable. With iTunes digital movies, every "copy" will work perfectly.

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