Free HD downloads of Stargate Universe now on iTunes!
Two episodes of Stargate Universe are now available for free download in HD on iTunes! MGM has temporarily made the two season premieres — “Air, Part 1″ and “Intervention” — available without charge. Get ‘em while you can!
Also a part of the promo are discounted prices for all 15 full seasons of Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, plus the Stargate movies. The full seasons of the two previous series are $29.99 for high definition copies, and $20.99 for standard definition.
For the HD versions of the first seven seasons of SG-1 (which are 22 episodes rather than 20), that’s an average of $1.36 for an HD episode — usually $2.99 each! Those 20-episode seasons average out to $1.50 per episode in HD, a savings of 50 percent.
Check out the full menu of Stargate seasons in iTunes here.
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Is this just in the US? Because I just checked the UK iTunes and this deal does not appear to be active over here.
Mr Evil 37 | March 29 @ 6:10 pmSeem like MGM is testing the waters seeing how popular Stargate is, surely they still have to pay Apply to distribute the files ?
knowles2 | March 29 @ 6:57 pmI am surprise they have only release one episode of Air, when it a three part episode that need to be seen together.
Problem is I 1) own all of these on DVD or blu ray and 2) can stream them all through Netflix when I’m on the road, so while its definitely an intriguing idea not really needed for me.
Browncoat1984 | March 29 @ 7:35 pmHmm, nice intent, but what of those who don’t have iTunes (or can’t run it?) ?
mmu_man | March 29 @ 7:44 pmiTunes UK ignored, as per usual. >:-(
Billz | March 29 @ 8:06 pmBleh, made me accept the (insane) iTunes EULA just to see I need to create an account to just get a *free* download. No way.
mmu_man | March 29 @ 8:21 pmI already recorded all S1 from NRJ12 in HD with both EN and FR audio tracks anyway (vlc roxor).
@Billz it seems you have to switch the store, at least it let me do it from the french one after clicking a link. But I didn’t find an obvious way to force changing the store. iTunes seems like a model of unusability.
mmu_man | March 29 @ 8:22 pmi agree with knowles2 … they are testing to see how many people will buy it if it is free, possibly a market test for movies they may be considering. Probably overall interest in stargate since they are also lowering prices on SG1 and Atlantis
zainea13 | March 30 @ 12:41 amDamn and I already bought the Amazon season pass. Guess I’ll have to “buy” them on iTunes as well just to help the numbers. Hopefully next week with McKay and Woosley the rates will get a boost. You know the SGA die hards will be watching.
Me, I’m just a Stargate die hard :) Still miss the good ole SG1 days (seasons 5 through 8), but still loving the Stargate, and don’t plan to stop.
twaysive | March 30 @ 9:00 amBTW, I just checked it out, it is only S01.E01 (pt 1 & 2 I believe) and S02.E01. Not really giving much away there. Both iTunes and Amazon have the season passes for ~54 to 56 dollars. Which is kinda really expensive compared to how much it was… but you know I’m a fan, I own S01 on blu-ray, bought both parts, and wish S02 would be on blu-ray.
oh and DOWN WITH SYFY… one day networks will understand they don’t get it, but not until they are at risk of going under and have to change. Also, yes I understand MGM controls the price point for SGU, not SyFy, but lets face it, if ratings were better, they may not need to charge as much.
twaysive | March 30 @ 9:06 amI believe a lot in Netflix and no longer in networks (out of AMC that rules).
iom666 | March 30 @ 12:56 pmNetflix is going to moonwalk everyone else, to the benefit of the consumers.
Scifi was good before nbc started to drive there networks in to the ground so that comcarp could buy them. The only good stuff left of NBC is the NHL. I hope that fox or ESPN get’s the NHL deal next year and that 2012 is the end of the olympics on NBC as they f* them up in 2010 come on USA vs Canada on MSNBC that VERY FEW systems had in HD at the time and then at the end they mirror to it main NBC channel in HD with out telling any one!
And to think they where also talking not makeing the gold medal live in the west.
NBC also made the Weather Channel so bad that dish had to drop it and put on that The Weather Cast channel at least that got the weather channel to fix some stuff and come back on dish.
JoeTheDragon | March 30 @ 7:26 pm[...] Right now there are several ways you can help. • MGM might be testing the waters of the market and the popularity of Stargate with their discounted and free episodes of Stargate Universe and Stargate SG-1. If there is any time to buy, now is the time. And if you don’t have any money to spend, at least download the episodes to show support! More info can be found on Gateworld. [...]
Campaign Blog » Blog Archive » SGU-SGA Crossover | March 30 @ 8:50 pmYes! Down with Syfy whom doesn’t make a single penny off of distribution on iTunes and Amazon because they don’t hold the licensing rights but somehow it’s still their fault!
If you’re going to blame Syfy, at least do it for the right reason. I don’t much like them either for a lot of reasons but I can’t fault them for cancelling a show that was costing so much and making them nothing in return. Who knows, if Syfy had other distribution rights, maybe the show would have survived.
For those of you who still don’t get it, Syfy only makes money when it’s aired on their channel with their commercials showing based on the nielsen ratings. It doesn’t matter if the ratings are accurate, it doesn’t matter if the show is popular on itunes, it doesn’t even really matter if the show is popular on Hulu since they get so little money from that. What matters is how much they can sell advertising time for on their TV network. Why? Because they’re a TV station.
The producers and the lack of fans sank the shows. Not Syfy, not MGM and not the disgruntled SGA fans that people like to blame. It was the people whose job it is to play the ratings game just as it has been their job for going on 2 decades. They played poorly.
mythos | March 31 @ 2:14 pmI bought the collectors box of SG-1 and all atlantis seasons. If that doesn’t show how much i love stargate then im clueless
PopnHeadz | April 4 @ 12:22 pm