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RealNetworks goes DRM-free

So RealNetwork announced this morning that it is just the latest online music service to offer DRM-free MP3 tracks. What's interesting about this is the press they're getting: Apparently no one realizes that the Rhapsody subscriptions still use DRM. Anyhoo, here are a few links: Taking the Wraps...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 06-30-2008
Apple sells over 5 billion songs via iTunes Store

From Apple PR : Apple today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded over five billion songs from the iTunes Store ( www.itunes.com ). iTunes is the number one music retailer in the US and features the largest music catalog with over eight million songs. Also, iTunes customers are now...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 06-19-2008
Napster Launches World’s Largest MP3 Store Featuring 6 Million Tracks

Napster becomes the second online music service (after Amazon MP3) to offer DRM-free tracks from all of the major recording companies: Napster, the pioneer of digital music, today announced the launch of the world’s largest and most comprehensive MP3 store at www.napster.com/store . Napster’s...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 05-20-2008
HBO heads to iTunes

Can we finally put the "no variable pricing on iTunes" baloney to the side. It's never really been true and it's pretty clear that Apple will actually bend over backwards for content providers if the company feels it's important enough. Case in point: HBO just joined iTunes today...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 05-13-2008
What they're not telling you about Apple's 'same day as DVD' deal

I first wrote about this last week in WinInfo Short Takes, but an article by David Carr in today's New York Times once again blurs the lines of reality when it comes to Apple's recent deal with movie companies. In this deal, Apple gets the right to sell movies digitally via iTunes on the same...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 05-05-2008
Purchase New Movies on iTunes Same Day as DVD Release

Apple PR : Apple today announced that new movie releases from major film studios and premier independent studios are available for purchase on the iTunes Store on the same day as their DVD release. New releases and catalog titles will be available from 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Warner...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 05-01-2008
Amazon Gains Share of Shrinking Paid Music Market

NYT's Saul Hansell writes another great blog post , this time about Amazon's recent gains in the digital music market: NPD’s annual survey of Internet users found that 10 percent of the music they acquired last year came from paid downloads. That is a big increase from 7 percent in 2006...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 04-18-2008
Apple is STILL lying about closed captioning in Ratatouille

Last month, I pointed out Apple's surreal use of the movie "Ratatouille" as an example of Closed Captioning support in iTunes during the teve Jobs keynote. It's surreal because Ratatouille, wasn't--and still isn't--available in a version with closed captioning from the iTunes...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 02-13-2008
Subtitles and alternate language tracks in iTunes movies: A lie?

Jump ahead to 19:25 in the MacWorld 2008 keynote video and you can see and hear Apple CEO Steve Jobs discuss a new feature in iPhone/iPod touch 1.3.1. "When I'm watching films now, I've got two buttons here ( Figure )," he says. "One shows me all the chapters; I can navigate through...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 01-23-2008
Macworld 2008 keynote: Initial thoughts

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Note that these are initial thoughts only. I'm guessing there will be a lot more to say about this later. Leopard update Apple sold 5 million copies of Leopard in 2007, "the most successful year for Mac OS X ever."...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 01-15-2008

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