Wow. It seems to me that this is a potentially game-changing move. Now the more casual viewers can pick and choose which movies they want without having to buy the whole box set.

Although most people who start out as casual MST3K viewers don’t often stay that way for long.

PS- Rated each ep 5 stars anyway….can’t hurt to have it well rated in iTunes.

Awesome, I just “re-discovered” my love of MST3k. I don’t have any of the DVD sets, and think this is perfect! Just purchased Werewolf and will be getting the other ones soon. Hopefully they’ll continue to release more episodes on iTunes!

Don’t support it! If we keep allowing companies to do this online download crap, we’ll end up with a society where there are no DVDs! Everyone will have to “scroll up” cinemas. Eventually one company will control it all and then make the cinemas forbidden!

Wow, way to miss the joke, Jake.

I don’t see that being such a bad thing, MikeK, remember the part when it was raining cocaine? That could take the edge off.

Even though I already own these eps. on DVD and even converted them onto my Zune, I agree this is a great move on Shout’s part. Hopefully it’ll get more people to support the show as well as increasing the fanbase with the more casual viewers out there.

I’m with Unabeefer. I don’t use iTunes, either, but this is a brilliant move. I am glad to hear these are available.

Thunder Dan says:
January 11th, 2009 at 1:01 am

“Wow, way to miss the joke, Jake.”

You hit Big Jake.

I wonder if they could release the host segments for KTMA 1,2,3 this way? Assuming that they don’t have a rights issue with the new owners of KTMA.

3 big cheers to all involved !

Hahaha. Someone has a Zune.

Anyway, as nice as it is to have MST3000 widely available in any form, I find the $9.99 price a tad insane. I would never in a million years purchase a movie download for that much. I paid $43 for the 20th Ann. set on DVD. That set is 4 mass produce DVD’s package in mass produced little plastic cases with printed artwork in them, placed in a printed and mass produced cardboard sleeve, and includes additional little things like the mini lobby cards and the little Crow statue. And all that is also package in a painted and embossed metal box, wrapped in plastic shrinkwrap with more printed mass produced stickers place on that, and shipped all around the country to stores everywhere, where it is placed on shelves by people being payed hourly wages. All that and it sold for less than $50 most places. But when it comes to a digital download with none of those expenses, and also none of the DVD extras included either, they can’t drop it to a more reasonable price of $5 or something? And this is not even taking into account the fact that an iTunes download can’t be easily viewed on a television unless you use Apple TV or go through the expense and hassle of having a PC running through your television. If they eased up on the insane DRM that won’t even allow you to watch iTunes downloads through your PS3 or Xbox 360 (which otherwise would have absolutely no problems with the files) it might actually be worth buying the odd iTunes video. But as it is if I really want them for my iPod I’ll just convert my own from the much cooler DVDs I bought for almost the same price.

Don’t support it! If we keep allowing companies to do this online download crap, we’ll end up with a society where there are no DVDs! Everyone will have to “scroll up” cinemas. Eventually one company will control it all and then make the cinemas forbidden!

I originally downloaded the venus movie, but the quality of the video is apalling. I’ve recently bought the DVD from Play and the quality as you’d expect is outstanding. I would suggest a lot needs to be done about image quality before this model is viable.

The Future War was my favorite segment. At just 9 green bucks, it was a total value for your money deal. Alvin at Folding Chairs Station