iTunes 7 Introduces Movie Downloads

Administrator — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:06:36 +0000

Apple announced iTunes 7 at today’s “It’s Showtime” media event. iTunes 7 has beautiful interface changes, as well as stunning new features such as the new album and Cover Flow views of music, TV shows and movies which lets you navigate through album art to mimic flipping through a CDs or DVDs collection. The “iTunes Music Store” is now referred to as the “iTunes Store” and is offering over 75 movies (640×480 pixels) from Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar, Touchstone Pictures and Miramax Films, which customers can purchase and download to watch on their computers and iPods, and soon on their flat screen televisions with Apple’s upcoming iTV player (the long rumored Apple media center will be available in Q1 2007).

When you buy movies from the iTunes Movie Store, you get near DVD-quality, 640-by-480-pixel video perfect for watching on your computer and for syncing to your iPod. You’ll be able to download these movies (from $9.99 to $14.99) the week they’re released on DVD. Watch free trailers before you download and pre-order upcoming releases. iTunes will let you know as soon as they’re ready to download

iPod Games. Available for just $4.99 in the iTunes Store, now you can also enjoy classics video games such as Tetris, PAC-MAN, and more. Once you’ve purchased the games you want, simply download and sync. iTunes automatically transfers the games to your iPod.

iPod Summary. A handy summary page gives you a quick snapshot of your iPod and complete control over what’s inside: content, storage allocation, syncing, software updates, etc…

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Administrator — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 01:19:06 +0000

In a Press Release, Apple announced today the inclusion of new television show content on its iTunes music store. 11 new popular TV shows from NBC, USA Network and the Sci-Fi Channel have been added to the video catalog. NBC wasn’t pleased by TiVo’s announcement that its TiVoToGo program lets users transfer shows to iPods and PSPs. It doesn’t come as a surprise to see them move to Apple’s iTunes store.
iTunes now offers more than 300 episodes of 16 popular TV shows for viewing on a computer (PC or Mac) or a portable video iPod. Apple has sold over 3 million videos in the first two months of video sales!

Ease of use and immediate availability. Consumers get the freshest content with this new video content delivery system. Worldâ€™s leading media and entertainment companies and TV networks are entering the video download market because the content offering can be more broad and vast with downloadable digital videos than whith retail stores. It’s moving fast and it’s just the begining, there will be more content in the future!

Video podcasting and video-on-demand aren’t new technologies but the growing success of iTunes and the iPod and new video-compression technologies like MP4 with the H264 codec, have pushed the major networks and mainstream media to start offering free podcasts and now paid TV shows on the iTMS.
Podcast is now the Word of the Year for 2005. “Only a year ago, podcasting was an arcane activity, the domain of a few techies and self-admitted geeks.* Now…thousands of podcasts are available at the iTunes Music Store and websites such as iPodder.com.”

Apple’s entry into the field is helping this alternative distribution channel, such as on-demand and Internet downloads to computers and portable devices. The demand for “video-on-demand” is obvious, viewers of the digital media era want more control. Instant targeted content, everywhere, anytime.

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iTunes 7 Introduces Movie Downloads

More Video TV Shows on iTunes