Apple's iTunes to start selling movies
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Apple Computer Inc. said on   Tuesday its iTunes online music store would begin selling   movies from Disney, Pixar, and Touchstone as the company makes   its most aggressive move yet into the digital home.
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(InfoWorld) - In only one week, Apple Computer's iTunes Store generated $1 million in movie sales for Walt Disney, and that's "just the beginning," the head of Disney said Tuesday. By the end of this year, Disney expects to reap $50 million in movie sales through the iTunes Store "at no marketing expense to us at all," said Robert Iger, chief executive officer of Disney, at a conference put on by The Goldman Sacks Group and webcast over the Internet. Disney became the first company to offer movies through the iTunes Store last week, a total of 75 films including new titles such as "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl," and older classics such as "The Incredibles" and "Cinderella." The initial success of the venture, with over 125,000 Disney titles sold in a week, should help boost confidence in the Internet as a lucrative place for entertainment companies to deliver content to users. It should also help allay fears over movie piracy, an issue the movie and recording industry has fought a tough battle against. "We are very, very bullish on consumption over electronically delivered media and we're taking a very optimistic view of technology as a friend, or a great enabler, and not a great predator," Iger said. Disney plans to expand the number of movies it offers through iTunes and the number of Web-based stores where users can buy its movies. "This is not exclusive to Apple," he said. During the Goldman conference, Iger also praised Apple CEO Steve Jobs and his performance asÂ a Disney board memberÂ for bringing in his ideas on new opportunities for media in the Internet age. "He has become, very quickly, not only a great sounding board but a great advisor, someone I can turn to readily for advice in a lot of these areas," said Iger. Jobs became a major shareholder and board member of Disney after the media and entertainment giant bought computer animation studio Pixar earlier this year. Jobs had been head of Pixar and a major shareholder in the company. An audio webcast of comments by Iger can beÂ accessed here.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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Steve Jobs reveals that iTunes will offer downloadable movies, and provided a sneak peek of a media box that will stream movies, music and TV shows from a nearby computer to the living room TV. Plus:
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If Apple decides to sell movie downloads, what is the magic price?
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Apple and News Corp. have signed an agreement to offer Twentieth Century Fox movies for rent through the iTunes Music Store, the Financial Times reported Thursday.Users would be able to download the latest Twentieth Century Fox movies from iTunes and view them for a limited time, the Financial Times reported, citing &quot;a person familiar with the situation.&quot;As part of the agreement, Twentieth Century Fox will use Apple&#39;s FairPlay digital rights management technology in future DVD releases, marking the first time someone other than Apple has used the technology, the report said. Using this technology would allow users to copy movies from a DVD onto an iPod, it said.The deal between Apple and Twentieth Century Fox will &quot;likely&quot; be announced on January 14 at the Macworld conference, the Financial Times said.Besides Twentieth Century Fox, Apple is holding similar talks about online movie rentals and FairPlay with Sony Pictures Entertainment, Paramount and Warner Bros., the Financial Times said.Apple, which saw its share price top $200 for the first time on Wednesday, currently offers some movies from Walt Disney and other studios on iTunes, but these are only available for purchase, not for rent.
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Apple Inc. is preparing to announce next month the long-rumored launch of a movie rental service through its online iTunes Store, as well as a groundbreaking licensing deal of its anti-piracy technology Â moves that could dramatically boost the appeal of digital movie distribution.
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Investor's Business Daily - Macrovision is likely to get a boost from Apple's announcement Tuesday that it will add a movie downloading feature to its iTunes online music store.
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Seeking to further push digital media into homes, Apple Computer launched its long-awaited online movie service Tuesday and showed off a device that will make it easier for consumers to watch the videos on television.
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Apple Inc and News Corp.'s Twentieth  Century Fox are set to announce a deal that will allow  consumers to rent movies through Apple's digital iTunes Store,  media reports said on Thursday.
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Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) is making its iTunes service a little more user friendly, by teaming up with eBay&#39;s (Nasdaq: EBAY) PayPal to facilitate payments.
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Apple and News Corp. have signed an agreement to offer Twentieth Century Fox movies for rent through the iTunes...
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Apple gets into the movie rental business, digitally.
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Apple Computer Inc. said on  Tuesday its iTunes online music store would begin selling  movies from Disney, Pixar, and Touchstone as the company makes  its most aggressive move yet into the digital home.
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Apple Computer Inc. indicated that chief executive Steve Jobs will outline plans next week to sell full-length movies through its iTunes music and video store.
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Blockbuster for your iPod More details are emerging of the deal to make Fox films and TV shows available for rent through Apple's iTunes service.â¦
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SANTA MONICA, Calif. and CUPERTINO, Calif., Feb. 12  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lionsgate and Apple(R) today announced that movies from Lionsgate will be available for purchase and download on the iTunes(R) Store (http://www.itunes.com/) starting today.
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Apple and News Corp. have signed an agreement to offer Twentieth Century Fox movies for rent through the iTunes Music Store, the Financial Times reported Thursday.