Coming soon to iTunes: movies for rent. Apple and Fox have apparently reached an agreement that will see Fox movies available for limited time rental as they are released on DVD. The movies will be available for viewing on iPods and iPhones too. The move will heat up the growing online movie competition with Amazon and Netflix and likely give a boost to Apple’s neat but largely overlooked Apple TV device. Rumours are that movies would rent for about $2.99 for 30 days – although Bermuda users will likely be hamstrung by the usual international copyright rules if they try to download them. [Surely at some point in this digital instant gratification revolution, the whole international copyright law infrastructure is going to have to be completely overhauled, right?] Incidentally, one movie rental service worth checking out is Jaman which has a growing selection of excellent quality indie and international movies that play on Mac, PC or on your TV via Apple TV (and a little hack).
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The best guide to what’s hot in movies, music and popular culture these days is to track what people are sharing online. Wired magazine has just released it’s “Top of the Swaps” for 2007. Wired used LA-based BigChampagne Online Media Measurement to track media-consumption trends across all digital channels – legal and illegal. And the winners are …
- Top Songs of 2007
- 1. Shop Boyz, “Party Like A Rock Star”
- 2. Akon, “I Wanna Luv U”
- 3. Sean Kingston, “Beautiful Girls”
- 4. Mims, “This Is Why I’m Hot”
- 5. Akon, “Don’t Matter”
- 6. T-Pain, “Bartender”
- 7. Soulja Boy, “Crank Dat Soulja Boy”
- 8. Justin Timberlake, “My Love”
- 9. DJ Unk, “Walk It Out”
- 10. Jim Jones, “We Fly High”
- Top Movies of 2007
- 1. Resident Evil: Extinction
- 2. Pirates of The Caribbean: At World’s End
- 3. I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
- 4. Ratatouille
- 5. Superbad
- 6. Beowulf
- 7. Transformers
- 8. American Gangster
- 9. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- 10. Stardust
- Top TV Shows of 2007
- 1. “Heroes”
- 2. “Prison Break”
- 3. “Top Gear”
- 4. “Smallville”
- 5. “Desperate Housewives”
- 6. “House, M.D.”
- 7. “Lost”
- 8. “Grey’s Anatomy”
- 9. “24”
- 10. “Dexter”
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