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MORE STUDIOS TO RENT MOVIES ON ITUNES Wednesday, January 2 2008 
Apple
is
expected
to
announce
at
its
MacWorld
conference
in
San
Francisco
that
Disney,
Paramount,
Lionsgate
and
MGM
will
make
new
and
old
movies
available
for
"rent"
on
Apple's
iTunes
Store.
according
to
several
published
reports.
It
had
previously
been
reported
that
20th
Century
Fox
would
also
provide
films
that
could
be
downloaded
and
viewed
during
a
30-day
window.
The
MacWorld
conference
is
due
to
take
place
from
January
14-18.
(more)FOX MOVIES TO FIND A PLACE ON IPODS Friday, December 28 2007 
As
part
of
20th
Century
Fox's
agreement
to
permit
its
latest
DVD
releases
to
be
available
for
"rent"
on
Apple's
iTunes
Store,
the
studio
has
also
agreed
to
employ
Apple's
Fairplay
copy
protection
scheme
that
will
allow
its
DVDs
to
be
transferred
to
Apple's
video
iPods
(and
presumably
iPhones),
according
to
published
reports.
Analysts
are
unsure
whether
the
deal
is
likely
to
mark
a
turning
point
in
mobile
video.
Relatively
few
full-length
features
have
been
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The day may soon be approaching when consumers will be able to walk into a Blockbuster store and rent a movie by downloading it instantly onto their video iPod or similar device. "We think the ultimate solution is a kiosk in a Blockbuster store and outside of a Blockbuster store that ... will be able to distribute content to your portable device," Blockbuster Chairman James Keyes told a Citigroup investors conference in Phoenix Wednesday. He predicted that video discs will become a thing of the past and that most movies will be rented in digital form. Keyes also said that he expects Blockbuster will benefit from an extended writers' strike as people alter their viewing habits and turn to movie and TV rentals as an alternative to the networks' planned menu of reruns, reality shows, and news magazines.
