Comments on: Video Rentals Coming Soon to iTunes?

By: lastangelman

lastangelman — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 07:50:28 +0000

Goodbye, Blockbuster or Good Buy, Blockbuster?

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2006/pulpit_20060216_000884.html

By: Jerod Santo

Jerod Santo — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:51:54 +0000

Evan-

Yah thats what I figured, thanks for the insight.

By: Matt Motherway

Matt Motherway — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:43:05 +0000

At least 2 missing pieces to the puzzle:

1. Content producers need to give Apple pricing control
2. Apple TV needs to be updated; hopefully it’s just software

By: Evan DiBiase

Evan DiBiase — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:12:12 +0000

Jerod, that's pretty much exactly what I do. The process runs something like this:

$ strings /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes > ~/iTunes-old.txt …upgrade iTunes… $ strings /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes > ~/iTunes-new.txt $ diff ~/iTunes-old.txt ~/iTunes-new.txt | mate

There's usually not a whole lot that's actually changed, so it's pretty easy to look through.

By: Jerod Santo

Jerod Santo — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:06:08 +0000

Just wondering your process. Do you just use the UNIX ’strings’ command and redirect to a file?

By: Jesse

Jesse — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:14:20 +0000

Excellent news! I’ve been waiting for this for some time. I think it might be a major blow — in a while — to Blockbuster, Hollywood Video, and Netflix: http://fishtrain.com/2007/09/23/itunes-movie-rentals-and-old-media/

By: Dacsiv

Dacsiv — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:29:39 +0000

Thanks, I too am glad to hear something more usefull is coming for my iTV ……

By: Aaress

Aaress — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:44:02 +0000

Wow - thanks for posting your find. I know I’d certainly spend more in iTunes if they launch video rentals or VOD.