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APPLE'S 'RENTED' MOVIES CAN'T BE VIEWED ON MOST VIDEO IPODS Wednesday, January 30 2008 Apple has begun receiving numerous complaints that movies that were recently made available for rent on its iTunes store can not be viewed on iPods that were purchased before September 2007. Many complained that Apple posted no notice of the limitation when the movie rentals became available and that they did not learn of the restriction until after they had rented a movie. Apple did not immediately respond to the complaints. (more) APPLE-POLISHING TIME FOR STUDIOS Wednesday, January 16 2008 
Each
of
the
major
studios
has
agreed
to
provide
movies
for
Apple's
iTunes
movie
rental
service,
Apple
chief
Steve
Jobs
announced
at
the
MacWorld
conference
in
San
Francisco
Tuesday.
The
inclusion
of
Universal
and
Sony
were
major
surprises
since
each
had
indicated
it
would
launch
a
similar
service.
Moreover,
Jobs
said,
the
films
could
be
downloaded
and
viewed
on
ordinary
or
high-definition
TV
sets
via
Apple's
settop
box
--
without
the
use
of
a
computer.
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Apple has been unable to make good on its January 15 promise to have 1,000 movies available for rent at its iTunes Store by the end of February. According to MacWorld magazine, Apple is currently offering only 351 titles for rent on the site. In fact, the magazine said, if all of the films listed for either purchase or rent are added together, Apple has only 770 available for downloading. By contrast Netflix has 6,000 titles available. Meanwhile Amazon has indicated that it is getting few takers for movies being offered on its Unbox service. It is asking customers to complete a survey asking what improvements would induce them to increase their use of Unbox. 
