Comments on: Return of the iPhone 3.0 Direct Movie + TV Show Download Rumors!

By: Tommy D

Tommy D — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:11:07 +0000

This is really sweet If you computer is frozen to a painfully addictive porn habit and are unable to access your iTunes

By: Tommy D

Tommy D — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:09:29 +0000

This is really sweet If you computer is frozen to a painfully addictive porn habit

By: Jason D

Jason D — Sat, 30 May 2009 15:14:29 +0000

I’d use this. I like to watch movies and tv while I travel. It’d be great to be able to rent a flick while I’m in the field. Sure, it’s probably over Wi-Fi. But that’s fine. It’d also be a good use for the 802.11n and 32GBs of storage that the new device should have.

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 30 May 2009 04:38:00 +0000

They need to stream over 3G while downloading (optional of course) and allow rentals.

Also they need to make it so that when you go on iTunes on your computer it automatically download (with prompt) instead of having to transfer purchases from the iPhone because that's slow and annoying over USB.

By: Tone

Tone — Sat, 30 May 2009 01:35:58 +0000

man downloading a movie to ur phone seems like it would take to long to b interesting

By: icebike

icebike — Sat, 30 May 2009 00:56:30 +0000

Downloading TV shows occasionally might be nice, to get the episode you missed.

The few I downloaded were about 500,000KB (500 meg) so you won't be keeping many of these on your phone.

Realistically, you can watch them full screen in Itunes, on your computer, so why would you view them on your phone unless you were traveling and expected to be bored.

By: dloveprod

dloveprod — Sat, 30 May 2009 00:28:26 +0000

Downloading lil music videos would be cute but I don’t know about movies and tv shows, unless they stream em to the phone

By: icebike

icebike — Fri, 29 May 2009 22:24:52 +0000

@Muero:

Most of the screen shots seem to suggest its done from within itunes on the phone. I didn't see anything suggesting it was a separate app.

By: Muero

Muero — Fri, 29 May 2009 22:18:37 +0000

This would make 4 iPhone OS apps (iPod, Music Store, App Store, and Video Store) to do what the “full” iTunes does. They can’t really combine them, though, because of the limited size of the iPhone’s screen. I’m just not looking forward to yet another built in app that takes up space on a home screen.

By: icebike

icebike — Fri, 29 May 2009 22:02:26 +0000

One wonders why there is a training package for this at all?

Its seems so obvious to use that no training would be necessary for the Apple Care agents.

If the training is out early does that mean:

1) Its problematic? 2) This has been "in the can" waiting to go for a long time 3) Release is closer than we think?