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	APPLE UPGRADES IPHONES TO HOLD MORE MOVIES Feb 6 2008
	In an apparent effort to make more room for "rented" movies downloaded from Disney's iTunes (more)
	APPLE'S 'RENTED' MOVIES CAN'T BE VIEWED ON MOST VIDEO IPODS Jan 30 2008
	Apple has begun receiving numerous complaints that movies that were recently made available for rent (more)

NEW MOVIES COMING TO ITUNES
Thursday, May 1 2008

Apple announced today that it has reached agreements with 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal, Sony, Lionsgate, and other studios to sell movies via its iTunes online service on the same day that the studios release them on DVD. The company had previously reached a similar agreement with Disney. New titles will sell for $14.99; catalog titles for $9.99. The agreements, coming with so many studios all at once, would appear to thwart threats by major retailers like Wal-Mart and Best Buy to refuse to stock DVDs from any studio making such a deal with Apple. They also pose a threat to other online services that are developing their own download services. Apple will benefit not only from direct sales of the movies but also from sales for several of its hardware products, including video iPods and the Apple TV, a device that can send movies wirelessly from a home computer's hard drive to a home-theater monitor.

TWO MORE STUDIOS TO SELL NEW MOVIES ON ITUNES
Thursday, April 17 2008
Two more major film studios are risking the wrath of major retailers like Wal-Mart and Best Buy by making movies available on Apple's iTunes store on the same day the DVD versions hit the shelves in stores. Daily Variety reported today (Thursday) that Fox will offer Juno online next Tuesday, when it also releases the DVD and Blu-ray versions. The trade publication also reported that Paramount offered Beowulf for purchase online shortly after it hit (more)

APPLE UNABLE TO FIND MOVIES FOR ITS NEW RENTAL SERVICE
Tuesday, March 4 2008

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 (more)