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Wired.com
Jobs has said for years that renting movies makes sense whereas renting music doesn’t. So when it came time to launch a movie rental service, Apple had to start including secure digital clocks in the latest round of devices. Connected devices like the iPhone have other ways of checking content permissions, but in [...]

Freakonomics
the brevity and accessibility of Web clips can raise awareness of a show, give viewers a taste of its content, and thereby entice more viewers to catch the show when it airs on a network. These findings are contrary to the entire modus operandi with which networks have approached Web video, and could provide an [...]

azcentral.com
Viacom Inc., owner of Paramount Pictures, is considering offering movie rentals through Apple Inc.’s iTunes online store, Chairman Sumner Redstone said.
Those things are being considered,” Redstone said today in an interview at the Allen & Co. media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. Viacom spokesman Carl Folta and Apple spokesman Steve Dowling didn’t return phone calls [...]

This morning on my Tivo Series 3 I got an update and I am now able to order and rent shows from Amazon Unbox from my TV. Prior to this update I would have to order it from the Amazon website and it would transfer it to my Tivo.

Tags:Tivo, Amazon Unbox

ARS Technica
… sales of Disney movies on iTunes have passed the 2 million mark while TV shows have shot past. Top-selling titles include Cars and Pirates of the Caribbean, while back-catalog titles have been selling at a much slower clip. Sales of Disney TV shows have topped the 23 million mark altogether since they were [...]

Tech Crunch
Apple is giving vloggers a few hints on how to optimize their videos for iTunes so that a single format will look ok on both an iPod as well as the new Apple TV, which is probably connected to a large screen HDTV.
I hope vloggers follow Apple’s suggestions. Every since I got my Apple [...]

I love this tune, but it’s the eighties and it’s hokey. Watch Paul Heaton before he went on to form The Beautiful South.

The song came out in 1987 and it was their first and only hit. A silly song, but I like it. Learn more at Wikipedia.