Full FeediTunes UK offers up movies for rent, sale
Apple is treating UK iTunes customers with the availability of movies in the iTunes store. The iTunes movie collection features premier titles from major studios including 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros, MGM, Sony Pictures and Lionsgate UK. Apple said that more than 700 films are… Continue Reading »
1,000 rentals? iTunes finally makes it
Apple has finally surpassed its goal of 1,000 movie rentals - users can now rent from a store of over 1,000 movies. Apple didn’t meet this goal on time however - they are exactly 63 days late from the deadline - but at least they made it. Steve Jobs must… Continue Reading »
Apple TV movie rentals require HDCP for playback
HDCP is a new form of copy protection introduced with the HDMI platform, it stands for High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection. According to Jeff Carlson from TidBITS, movie rentals on the Apple TV require HDCP. This means if the TV/monitor you’re using your Apple TV with isn’t HDCP-compliant, you won’t be… Continue Reading »
Apple TV Update delayed
In a press release noting the MacBook Air’s shipping, Apple announced that the Apple TV Take 2 Software Update is “not quite finished” and that Apple “now plans to make the free software download available to existing Apple TV customers in another week or two.” The Apple TV Update, announced… Continue Reading »
Vudu cuts set-top box price
Vudu is one of Apple TV’s main rivals - one that made it on to Steve’s slide of those who “failed” to get movie rentals right. Vudu has just cut the price of their basic version by over $100 - bringing it to $295. The price cut has commenced today,… Continue Reading »
Time Warner Cable plans to kill Apple TV
Time Warner obviously isn’t happy about Apple being their latest competitor in delivering movie rentals to the home. Their latest plan is to introduce a new billing scheme, a test to charge users by bandwidth consumption, that could crush Steve Jobs’s hopes and dreams for Apple TV. According to Bits,… Continue Reading »
HBO begins offering Internet video service
HBO said on Monday that it is going to take provisional actions into online video with HBO on Broadband, a new service designed to help timeshift their TV programming. The feature will only be available for Time Warner Cable customers subscribed to the premium channel but will allow them to… Continue Reading »
Cheat the iTunes rental system
Many think that the iTunes Movie Rentals have too strict time limitations. You only get to watch your movie for 24 hours once you have started playing it. Clever hackers have developed a simple loop in Apple’s system, which allows you to rent movies, and keep them with plenty of… Continue Reading »
AppleTV vs Xbox Live
In case you didn’t know - the Apple TV is not the first device to offer up movie rentals, neither is it the only current one available. Xbox Live users have been able to rent movies from their sofa for quite some time now. Joystiq, the gaming blog, gives an… Continue Reading »
Movie rentals won’t work on a 5G iPod
I suspected this a long time ago when we first heard rumors of iTunes movie rentals. Although thousands of people are now thrilled that Apple has introduced iTunes movie rentals - they may not know that only the current iPods are supported by it. That means the iPod Touch, iPod… Continue Reading »
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