September 16th, 2005
Caught in the Act: Apple’s Plans to Launch a Video Store Leaked Online
By Alice Hill
RealTechNews
Just Don’t Sue Me Dept: We found out that a German Blogger named Alex Brofsky poked around a new release of iTunes 5 and found clear evidence that video will soon be an option.
Click on the picture above for the full image. In addition to these provocative images, text strings mentioning the phrase “Protected MPEG-4 video file” were also found within iTunes 5. If anyone had a sliver of doubt about what Apple was doing in regards to an iTunes Video Store, this evidence should remove it. Source: Arstechnica and Fscklog
Our Take: Apple moving into video is a no brainer. Which means the video iPod or vPod is just around the corner. They beter hurry up, Sony is surprising everyone with its booming sales of UMD format movies for the PSP. Tom’s Hardware reports Sony will be increasing production of UMD movies from 200,000/day to 500,000/day to keep up with demand and they expect to sell 130 million discs in 2008.
Rob says:
iTunes had WMA and OGG icons in previous releases, too … I’ll believe it when I see it.
September 16th, 2005 at 3:22 pm
justin says:
I wonder if the PSP’s booming sales of video UMDs is just because people have ran out of fun things to do on thier PSP so they buy movies to play on it so they don’t have to throw thier new toy in the junk drawer.
September 17th, 2005 at 7:55 am