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Thanks. This will certainly come in handy.

2 corrections to 99 cent movie site.
$0.99 movies are for each weekend, starting on Thurs, not Tues.
First $.99 movie was Breakfast at Tiffany’s, it was for weekend starting Feb 13th.
Thanks for what I hope will be a usefull service.
Mark

If you could also put the MPAA rating in there as well, it would make it a little more family friendly.  Thanks.

it would be nice to see the movies imdb and/or itunes store rating to see if it’s even worth clicking on the link

can you do this?

thanks for a great service!

Please add a iGoogle Home Page link to your feed so I can put it on my iGoogle page!!

http://www.google.com/webmasters/add.html

I second the rating request. Please add it in the description so I can quickly see if the movie is okay for the kids and not have to open iTunes to find out.  If you really wanna get crazy add an IMDB link in it as well.  Great service THANKS!

could we get an iPhone webclip?

http://vjarmy.com/archives/2008/01/howto_iphone_webclip_icons.php

@Mark: I had originally put Thursday, however the latest movie Changing Lanes was discounted on Tuesday this week.  I think I’ll take off the day of the week for now.

@Jason & Don: The MPAA rating is a good suggestion. I’ll add that.

@Dizzy: I’m pretty sure iGoogle uses the Google Reader RSS app, so you should be able to subscribe to the feed address which is: feed://feeds.feedburner.com/99rental

@Chris:  What’s an iPhone?  J/K. That’s a no brainer I’ll add that as well.

As Mark had mentioned, the first movie to become 99¢ was Breakfast at Tiffany’s.  Looks like you overlooked that in your reply to him.

this site will be awesome for those who have apple TV it helps alot Thanxs Guy’z

@Mark & Mike: Added Breakfast at Tiffany’s to the archive.

Please get that RSS feed under control. Old entries keep showing up again.

Our apologies with the RSS feed.  Feedburner has been giving us some issues so we had to resync the feed completely.  It shouldn’t happen anymore.

Thanks for providing this service to the Apple community!  For the life of me I couldn’t find any way to actually find the rental special in iTunes.

Great website! It’s very professional and organized.
It’d be cool if you could include your own review of the movie and also the year the movie was created.
I really like this site!

Thank you!
-Colin

We’ve added MPAA ratings and a Webclip icon for iPhone users.  Thanks for the good feedback.

Both Soul Plane and Bandits are showing up on your website as “Available”, yet in iTunes they are both $2.99

Just FYI

@Aaron: We’ve noticed this too.  Soul Plane is definitely the next 99 cent movie and should reflect that some time today. iTunes isn’t consistent about what time the switch happens unfortunately, so we just set starting and expiring dates to Tuesday (hence the double availability). We think it’s more helpful than not to know what it’s going to be even if it’s a couple hours early. Thanks for mentioning it.

It seems you are still having RSS issues.  I just got ALL your posts delivered to my google reader… again.  buh-bye.

I apologize for the repeat RSS entries.  I’m wondering if the modifications to the original feed to include new content such as the MPAA rating is causing Feedburner to think they are all new entries.  If anybody is familiar with this type of RSS issue please enlighten me, I’m a bit lost on this one.

You guys should consider having an Twitter account to post the 99 cent movie.

TwitterFeed.com will automagically grab your RSS feed and post it.  And it’ll link back to your post.  (This only works if the URL is unique each week).

FriendFeed is another place (it’ll grab a twitter or RSS feed). 

Gary

Good idea, I created a Twitter account at http://twitter.com/99rental It should be updated within the hour with the latest movie.  Hope you’ll find it useful, please share with your friends on Twitter.

Glad you’re on twitter now!  I’m following you.

Cool, ask and ye shall receive!

Follow me too at twitter.com/garylapointe

great idea, hope this gets really popular—i’m going to stumble this later

Love the site, thanks for doing this for the community.

I’d love to see you include links to the movie of the week at both IMDB and RottenTomatoes so that we can click click to check out more about the movies.

Thanks

I just added a Mac OS X Dashboard Widget to 99rental.com
http://www.99rental.com/download

Hello. I like the layout and design of your site--very professional and Mac looking!

I just downloaded your widget and much prefer it over the similar “$0.99 Movie” widget.

For your next version, it would be great if you could make the widget collapsible and/or have a mini mode that would just show the picture and name of the film (perhaps the dates of availability too).

It would also be cool, though probably more involved, to have a coutdown until the movie “expires.” Perhaps this could be done in a “X days remaining” line of text, an “!” icon and/or something that would only appear after a certain amount of time.

Thanks for a nice widget,
Nathan

Thanks for the suggestion Nathan. I’ll keep that in mind if we decide to update the widget.