AppleTV About 600 Movies Short

At MacWorld this year, when Steve Jobs announced iTunes Movie Rentals and the update to AppleTV, he promised 1000 titles by the end of February, with over 10% being in HD:

"iTunes Movie Rentals launches today and will offer over 1,000 titles by the end of February, including over 100 titles in stunning high definition video with 5.1 Dolby Digital surround sound which users can rent directly from their widescreen TV using Apple TV."

Now its March 5 and counts have differed over just how many movies there are to rent on iTunes; Macworld and AppleInsider report just over 350, with 91 in HD. The feature to show all movies appears to have now been disabled. Even though Apple's HD goal is close, a look at the actual movies offered in HD shows 21 of them are from the 80s or earlier decades and don't really benefit from being shown in HD.
Apple hasn't really commented on the issue and time will tell when they will reach their original goal of 1000 movie rentals.

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