As I type, Britney Spears is late for a custody hearing regarding her two children. At the same time, the preliminaries for MacWorld are on-going, just up the road in San Francisco. Could these two seemingly unrelated events be coincidental, or is it something more? Perhaps Britney munches the occasional brain? Lord knows, she needs [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Macworld’
Brit? A Zombie?
Posted in Uncategorized, zombies, tagged brains, Britney Spears, Custody, Macworld, San Francisco, zombies on January 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Macworld: Warner Brothers on list for iTS movie rentals
Posted in Apple TV, iTunes Store, tagged Apple TV, iTunes Store, Macworld, Netflix, Steve Jobs, Warner Brothers on January 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Wow, the gang’s (almost) all here. Bloomberg says today that Warner Bros. will join several other studios in making movies available on iTunes Store for sale and rental. The announcement will come in Steve Jobs’ keynote address Monday morning at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Bloomburg says Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Disney [...]
And just like that, HD DVD is now basically toast
Posted in iTunes Store, tagged Blu-ray, HD DVD, iTunes Store, Macworld, NBC Universal on January 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Wow, less than a week after Warner Brothers said it chose Blu-ray over HD DVD and would no longer sell high-definition discs in both formats, Paramount is also apparently dumping HD DVD, according to a report today by Financial Times. NBC Universal is now the only major studio in the HD DVD camp and — [...]
Does CES foreshadow Apple TV HD content at Macworld?
Posted in Apple TV, iTunes Store, tagged CES, iTunes Store, Macworld, Xbox Live on January 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Microsoft chief dork Bill Gates kicked off the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) last night by announcing a slew of movie and TV content for its 10-million-member Xbox Live community, much of it in high definition, including: 500 hours of ABC (“Lost,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Desperate Housewives,” “Ugly Betty”), ABC Family (“Kyle XY,” “Greek”), ABC News and [...]
Notes: iTS movie rentals, non-DRM music, Radiohead
Posted in iTunes Store, Steve Jobs, Uncategorized, tagged Apple Insider, Blu-ray, iTunes, iTunes Store, Jeff Zucker, MacRumors, Macworld, NBC Universal, Radiohead, The Beatles on January 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There are so many rumors and news items blowing around, I’m going to need oxygen to keep from hyperventilating between now and Macworld. Let’s go: Macworld. Steve Jobs’ keynote address is Monday, Jan. 14, 2008 — one week from today — starting at 12 p.m. EDT. Movie rentals. BusinessWeek says today that Apple is close [...]
Competing formats holding back HD disc, player sales
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Apple TV, Blu-ray, HD DVD, Macworld, New York Times, Steve Jobs on December 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The New York Times has a good piece today on the Blu-ray vs. HD DVD format fiasco. Basically, the studios and equipment manufacturers have continued to dig in their heels over agreeing to a single format and — surprise! — consumers are still sitting on the sideline. The impulse Apple angle is to say that [...]
Macworld: Fox movie rentals headed to iTunes Store?
Posted in Apple TV, iTunes Store, Steve Jobs, tagged Apple TV, Fox, iTunes Store, Macworld, movie rental, Steve Jobs on December 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Finally, PPV movies in the iTunes Store. The Financial Times is reporting tonight that Apple and 20th Century Fox have agreed to make Fox new releases available on iTS both on a pay-per-view basis and as embedded tracks that can be ripped from DVDs. Apple Insider and MacRumors have both picked up the story. Announcement [...]
