I can try to answer a few of your questions. My responses are based on results from the US iTunes store accessed through iTunes 12.0.1 running under MacOS 10.9.5. YMMV.
If a movie is available both for rent and for purchase, VO will speak the first 2 Form Control items as "price, purchase, title,” and “price, rent, title.” For example, if I navigate to the movie titled “Best in Show” and then open the web rotor and go to the list of form controls, the first 2 items announce “$9.99, Purchase, Best in Show,” and “$2.99, Rent, Best in Show.” If a movie is available only for purchase, I only hear the purchase option. For your example of “The Imitation Game,” I hear “$19.99, Pre-Order, The Imitation Game.” Regarding the meaning of “pre-order,” I googled itunes.com what is pre-order and the first result was the following Apple KB article. http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202723 Regarding streaming of audio described movies: I am pretty sure there are currently no sources for legally renting and streaming movies with bundled audio description tracks here in the US. FWIW, there are a handful of audio described movies for purchase and download in the US iTunes store. These all seem to be Disney titles, and can be found by searching for “DVS." For example, here is a link to purchase the audio described version of the movie titled “Up!” in the US iTunes store. https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/up-for-blind-viewers-audio/id327127329 HTH, Bryan On Dec 27, 2014, at 4:50 PM, Paul Hopewell <[email protected]> wrote: > When I look up a movie title on the iTunes store I see a price of around £14 > for HD and £10 for SD. I am unclear on whether this is the rental price or > the purchase price. This may arise because the movies I looked up are recent > releases (Mr Turner and the Imitation Game) and may not be available for both > rental and purchase. I am primarily interested in rental. > > i see that rented movies have to be watched within 30 days of download and > once started watching has to be completed within 48 hours. Can I only watch a > rented movie once within the 30 days? > > both the above movies are listed as pre-order. what does this mean? > > Is audio description standard in all movies from the iTunes store? If so do I > have to do anything special to enable audio description? If it is not > standard are there options to enable me to choose a version with audio > description? How do I know which movies have audio description and which do > not? <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at the list's public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we always strive to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
