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Miramax CEO says Apple is a threat to the music industry

by Michael Grothaus (Oct 5th, 2011)

Miramax CEO Mike Lang told the audience at MIPCOM that Apple is a bigger threat to the music industry than piracy. Miramax was a Disney property (of which Steve Jobs is the largest shareholder) until it was sold last year. Lang told the packed audience that "Apple is the strongest company in ...

LOVEFiLM comes to iPad

by Michael Grothaus (Sep 29th, 2011)

It's rare that an iOS movie-streaming app receives little notice, but earlier this week, Amazon released the LOVEFiLM Player for iPad without fanfare. LOVEFiLM is the UK equivalent of Netflix, which allows users to rent DVDs and Blu-ray discs by post or stream them online. In January of this ...

Dreamworks animated films now available on iTunes

by Mike Schramm (Sep 1st, 2011)

After quite a wait, Dreamworks Animation has finally relented to allowing its movies on iTunes, which means the company's catalog is more or less up for grabs. Kung Fu Panda is one title customers have been waiting for, and Monsters vs. Aliens, Bee Movie, and Madagascar 2 are available as well. ...

HTML5 game running on Apple TV

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 8th, 2011)

The Apple TV 2 could become a new platform for playing HTML5-based games and applications. A hacker installed the Couch Surfer browser on a jailbroken Apple TV and used it to play an HTML5 version of BlackJack. The game is rudimentary, but it's a sign that the Apple TV is capable of more than ...

Apple reportedly readying Replay service for streaming iTunes purchase history

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 3rd, 2011)

According to AppAdvice, Apple may be prepping a new re-downloading and streaming service called iTunes Replay. The service would let you re-download select movies and TV shows from iTunes and stream that content to a variety of iOS devices. The Replay service will supposedly let you access ...

Blu-ray playback comes to OS X, but not from Apple

by Mel Martin (Jul 6th, 2011)

We all know Steve Jobs does not want Blu-ray to be on Macs. He famously referred to the licensing rules for Sony's format as a "bag of hurt." Nevertheless, people do want to play movies on their Macs, and not be ripping DVDs or going to the iTunes store. With Blu-ray disks getting more popular, ...

Academy members get screeners through iTunes

by Mike Schramm (Apr 26th, 2011)

Here's an interesting note that's not exactly new, but might be news to a lot of movie fans anyway: Apple has apparently been passing out movie screeners for Oscar voters via iTunes. That fact came to light in an FBI raid earlier this week when chasing down a man who allegedly uploaded illegal ...

20th Century Fox talks about the success of Angry Birds Rio

by Mike Schramm (Apr 20th, 2011)

I attended an event called the LA AppShow last night here in Santa Monica, CA, and I saw seven demos of various apps that are seeing significant success on the App Store. Matt McMahon from 20th Century Fox was there, and while his company didn't publish the actual app in question, he's ...

Sony's Crackle app for iOS approved by Apple

by Steven Sande (Apr 19th, 2011)

A few months ago, we reported on how Apple rejected the Sony Reader app from the App Store, seemingly singling out the electronics and media company for punishment when similar apps like Amazon's Kindle and Barnes & Noble's Nook readers for iOS were untouched. Sony appears to have decided ...

Why Apple.com hosts movie trailers

by Mike Schramm (Mar 10th, 2011)

Here's a pretty interesting story about why Apple.com, of all places, hosts movie trailers. It all goes back to that first Star Wars: The Phantom Menace trailer back around 1998 (which I watched hundreds of times, before I saw the actual, less exciting movie). Over on Quora, a former Apple ...

iOS 4.3 spotlight: iTunes Home Sharing

by Mike Schramm (Mar 9th, 2011)

iOS 4.3 is now available for download, and along with it comes iTunes Home Sharing -- the ability to stream your entire iTunes library to your iDevice over Wi-Fi. Previously, you could use Apple's Remote app to control and play an iTunes installation on another computer, but this is different. ...

Apps for the 2011 Academy Awards

by Chris Ullrich (Feb 25th, 2011)

With the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences 83rd Annual Academy Awards (or as we like to call them: The Oscars) airing this Sunday on ABC, iOS-using movie fans may want to enhance their viewing experience with a few Apps for their iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. So, we've put together a ...

Apple TV / film product placement down, but still ahead of competition

by David Quilty (Feb 23rd, 2011)

Maybe it's because I am both a fan and a loyal customer, but I do tend to notice how often Apple products pop up everywhere as the de facto computers on TV and on the big screen. According to a report by AppleInsider, Apple doesn't even pay for that product placement, yet 30 percent of the top ...

Amazon Prime members can stream movies, TV shows for free

by Mel Martin (Feb 22nd, 2011)

Yes, it works on Macs. If you subscribe to the Amazon Prime service, which gets you free two-day shipping or overnight shipping for $3.99, you can now get about 5,000 movies to watch on demand at no additional cost. Amazon Prime costs US$79.00 per year. What's going on here? Well, Amazon has been ...

Warner Brothers sells movies as apps, skirts iTunes

by Dave Caolo (Feb 16th, 2011)

In an interesting move, Warner Brothers has released two movies as apps -- including extras -- semi-skirting the iTunes Store. The idea is to offer movies to customers who live in countries without movie sales via iTunes. Of course, Apple still gets the 30 percent cut of the in-app purchase ...