Second Leg of Appleâs Plans Includes Jumping Back Into Movie Rentals
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Steven P. Jobs is rebooting Appleâs digital movie effort and putting the company squarely in the middle of an intensifying industry battle.
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Available as a free automatic download later this month, the new software announced today lets movie fans rent movies on the iTunes Store directly from their widescreen TV. With iTunes Movie Rentals and Apple TVâand with no computer requiredâcustomers can effortlessly rent movies just by clicking a button on their remote. By the end of February, theyâll be able to choose from a catalog of more than 1,000 titles, including over 100 titles in stunning high definition video with 5.1 Dolby Digital surround sound. DVD-quality iTunes Movie Rentals cost just $2.99 for library titles and $3.99 for new releases. High-definition versions are just one dollar more with library titles at $3.99 and new releases at $4.99.
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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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Owners of the set-top device will have to wait a little longer for the highly-anticipated upgrade that allows the renting of movies from iTunes.
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AppleÂs chief executive touched off speculation last week about how far Apple will go as it takes its next big step into digital video.
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A laptop that fits inside an envelope and online movie rentals are among announcements at MacWorld.
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As expected, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced "one more thing" on Tuesday: movie downloads through iTunes. Customers will initially have access to 75 films, with more being added each week. For now, however, only movies from Disney will be offered.
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With iTunes movie rentals now available, Don Reisinger thinks Steve Jobs pulled a fast one on the online rental industry. Is he right?
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The Apple universe is thinking about movies after last week's invitation promising, "It's showtime."
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Apple Inc and Twentieth Century Fox  are set to announce a deal that will allow consumers to rent  Fox movies through Apple's digital iTunes Store, according to  media reports on Thursday.
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Apple Computer, which pioneered the online distribution of music and television shows, appears poised to jump into the movie business.
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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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By Fergus Sheppard Media correspondent and Eben Harrell  THE computer giant Apple last night moved to strengthen its grip on the digital media market with the launch of a film download service - plus a device to link it with television sets.
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Apple Computer will pull back the curtain Tuesday on new offerings that industry-trackers believe will include delivering films to upgraded iPod MP3 players.
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Shares of Blockbuster Inc. plunged nearly 17 percent on Tuesday after a new threat emerged to the world's largest chain of movie-rental stores: Apple Inc. announced it now offers movie downloads via iTunes.
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Price cut, new system software coming Macworld Expo Apple is to re-launch its Apple TV set-top box as a movie rental system, offering HD content for $4.99 a pop as a direct download. The hardware's getting cheaper too.â¦
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Apple's new video-rental service requires a late-model iPod or iPhone, customers have discovered. Video rentals from iTunes won't play on iPods that predate the latest models, released in September 2007.