Buy VS Rent on Apple TV

Okay so I have a huge question. Why am I paying retail prices for movies and getting horrible encoding. At least with a physical disc (which is the same price) I can rip it off at least with the 5.1 Surround Sound and with a MUCH MUCH better encoding. But if I buy a released one from Apple it's only in ipod format. Which is great if I wanted to watch it in stereo on an itty bitty screen. So Apple what's up with this? Why no HD love to the buyers? and why am i pigeon holed into buying when really I want to rent new releases?
I don't get the Apple Media experience at all anymore, before it was buying a small selection of movies, then it's rental of a large section of movies, now it's buying only at retail physical disc prices with no rental option of new releases. How many personalities are at the wheel here?

What content is available and what you can do with that content is controlled by the rights holders, the studios. So, in a sense, yes, there are many personalities at the wheel.

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