iTunes 7.6.1 and Weekly $0.99 Movie Rentals

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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 Hours. [...]

NBC Content Coming Back to iTunes?

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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 on the TV [...]

iTunes Rental Frustrations

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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 [...]

Apple Announces iTunes Movie Rentals

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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 for [...]

Fox Signs Deal With Apple for iTunes Movies

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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 purchase [...]

iTunes Movie Pricing May Hit $15 Each (Update)

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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 priced [...]

iPhone 1.1.2 Jailbreak and Custom Ringtones with iTunes 7.3 -Update

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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 remember [...]

iTunes Movie Rentals Coming Soon?

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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
dest-rental-info
The reason that this is exciting is [...]


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