According to a report over at Open Salon, the upcoming Apple iPhone 3.0 firmware update is expected to hit the phone next month, and with it will come direct downloads of movies and TV shows, eliminating the need for a PC with iTunes.
Alleged screenshots (posted at the end of the article) seem to show direct links to “iTunes Movies,” “iTunes TV,” and “iTunes Movie Rentals.” All movies and episodes are separated by genre.
Apple has not confirmed or denied the rumor.
Currently iPhone/iPod Touch owners can only directly download podcasts.
We will keep you updated.
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Subscribers of Netflix‘ online DVD/Blu-ray rental service have been complaining about receiving damaged or cracked discs from the company. “Over the last two months, we’ve had probably four to six Blu-ray discs in a row arrive with small cracks at the edge of the disc that render it unplayable,” says Pete Brown, whose wife has been a Netflix subscriber for three years.
Blu-ray is structured significantly different to DVD in that DVD is comprised of two 0.6mm thick polycarbonate discs with the data recorded to a thin metal substrate in between, while Blu-ray is a single 1.1mm polycarbonate disc with the data recorded at the top, and protected by a 0.1mm coating. The Blu-ray discs circulated by Netflix may be more affected by the process than DVDs, and you have to remember Blu-ray is still a very young format.
“The coating is supposed to protect the discs but it could also be making them more brittle,” says Adrienne Downey, senior analyst at research firm Semico. “Ultimately Blu-ray is a new technology and they are still working the kinks out of it.” The problem can’t just come down to the discs however, as BlockBuster customers don’t complain about damaged Blu-ray titles as much.
For Pete Brown and his wife, the experience has been particularly bad. They added Babel to their queue and received a cracked disc. Upon receiving a replacement disc of the same movie, they checked and found that it was also damaged. To make it worse, the same thing happened the third time too. “At a point, my wife was like, maybe they are sending us same thing to us over and over again,” said Brown.
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According to a report from Appscout, Apple may be on the verge of making Quicktime Pro free with the latest update of Mac OS X.
Although the Quicktime media player is free for everyone, the Pro version costs $29.99 USD and gives users the ability to edit and save Quicktime movies as well as export additional codecs other than .mov.
Checking the new developer build of Snow Leopard shows however that all those abilities are available for free and any links to register for the Pro version are also removed.
This should mean that Apple is making the player free with OS X 10.5 but that has not been confirmed yet. We will keep you updated.
