CyberSurge

Just like Fox did at the Macworld keynote (last paragraph of this article) Lionsgate announced that they are working with Apple to provide iTunes Digital Copies on select DVD and Blu-ray Discs. The first disc with the iTunes Digital Copy will be Rambo which is set to be released on May 27.  The process of [...]

Yesterday Apple released version 7.6.1 of iTunes which fixes several unnamed bugs and improves compatibility with the AppleTV 2.0 software. Apple also announced that they will begin offering a discount on select movie titles for rental. There will be one movie per week that will only cost $0.99 to rent, starting with the movie The [...]

You may have read a couple of quotes recently regarding Apple and NBC, if not they are as follows: “We’ve said all along that we admire Apple, that we want to be in business with Apple” – NBC CEO Zucker “We’re great fans of Steve Jobs” – NBC CEO Zucker “We’ll put it back together [...]

First off I want to say that I was all kinds of excited for the iTunes movie rentals and yesterday I decided to finally rent a movie through it, there weren’t very many rentable movies that I haven’t seen (and that I was willing to see) so I decided on “Fantastic Four: Rise of the [...]

iTunes has been incredibly successful, it has sold over 4 billion songs, 125 million TV shows, but only 7 million movies. Apple decided that to make their movie business a little bit better they would now offer movie rentals in iTunes. Apple has been able to sign on all 6 of the major movie studios [...]

More Apple rumors showing up today, supposedly Fox has agreed to an iTunes movie deal. These movies will (according to the rumor) be for rental, allowing iTunes users to watch a rented movie for a limited time. It also seems that Fox may be including a FairPlay protected video file of select movies when you [...]

This is just a rumor but the internet has been all a buzz about the possibility of iTunes movies getting a bit of a price increase to $15 each. Now this doesn’t make any sense AT ALL I’ll prove it to you, currently in the iTunes music store Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause is [...]

Since iPhone firmware 1.1.2 was released (read here) people have been hacking away at it to see if they can get it jailbroken, and well, they did. But, more on the jailbreaking in a minute first I want to mention to all of you a little something interesting about iPhone 1.1.2, custom ringtones. If you [...]

It is very possible that iTunes will soon be offering movie rentals in the iTunes music store. Some clever and curious people have run an application called “strings” on iTunes allowing them to look at the various strings of text in a file. Some of the strings that came up were: rental-content rental-bag rbsync source-rental-info [...]

There are new versions of iTunes, 7.5, and Quicktime, 7.3. Here’s the details: iTunes 7.5 (41.3MB) iTunes 7.5 features the ability to activate iPhone wherever service is offered and support for Phase, a new interactive music game designed exclusively for iPod nano (third generation, iPod classic, and iPod (fifth generation). This release also includes bug [...]

I absolutely love the TV Show Avatar: the Last Airbender and I know that new episodes come out every Friday at 8:30 but, because I don’t have cable television I watch it through iTunes. Strangely when I woke up this morning an episode of Avatar started to download called “The Beach,” I though to myself [...]

A few weeks ago NBC decided to cancel its contract with Apple but apparently the relationship isn’t completely over. Chuck and Journeyman have been added to the iTunes Store and you can buy a season pass for them for $39.99 each. Each show will have 13 episodes each, this means that they will finish up [...]