Apple movies on ipod and iphone - By: Paddy Chang

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Good news if you own an Apple device such as an iphone or ipod and like watching Apple movies. To promote its movie business Apple are now offering Weekend Movie Picks on its iTunes website. Apple are now offering its ipod movies on a special price of 99 cents which is a massive $3 off the usual rental fee.A new movie will become available at the special price every Thursday, good until the following Monday. Once rented, you will have the standard 30 days to watch it in a 24-hour time period.
Amazon did something similar when it debuted Unbox, which is an Internet video on demand service (but only available only in the U.S.) It was launched in September 2006 and is compatible with Windows or a TiVo DVR, whilst the iTunes movie rentals can be downloaded using your Mac or Windows computer, or even downloaded to the AppleTV.
They haven’t got a great movie selection similar to Netflix, but it is as good as Unbox and the various video on demand services that are offered by cable and satellite companies. It will probably improve over time as they build up their library.
One good thing the AppleTV has going for them is its user interface is so much easier to use than the VOD menus.

To save space on your podcast, a good tip would be to add shows to your favourites rather than downloading a show directly to the AppleTV hard drive. When you want to watch a video podcast, click on My Favourites to see what’s new and choose the show you want to watch.
One thing that is lacking is that there is no indication of which shows you have watched and which ones you haven’t seen. It’s also difficult to manage subscriptions from the AppleTV.
At least with movie rentals, I don’t have to worry about knowing how to delete video podcasts downloaded directly to the set-top box.

Watch TV or surf the net?? Hmmm its a tough one for me but did you know a new IDC study Link here has found that the Internet wins with an average of 32.7 hours/week compared to watching television at 16.4 hours. This also compares well with the good old printed matter, reading newspapers and magazines came out at 3.9 hours.
“The time spent using the Internet will continue to increase at the expense of television and, to a lesser extent, print media,” said Karsten Weide, program director, Digital Media and Entertainment at IDC. “This suggests that advertising budgets will continue to be shifted out of television, newspapers, and magazines into Internet advertising.”
Interestingly the study shows that people tend to use the media they are accustomed to and grew up with. The older the respondents, the more they consume TV, newspapers, and magazines whilst the younger they are, the more the Internet gets used.
This trend seems to be only going one way as the internet grows and diversifies. As Internet usage becomes more more advanced with mobile pc’s, laptops, and ever evolving mobile phones all using WiFi to have unlimited and constant access to the Internet.
So do you spend more time in front of the TV or surfing the net?

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