Think Secret is reporting that Apple may announce movie rentals through the iTunes Music Store at the WWDC on August 7th, that’s right rentals. It seems as if even Apple can’t convince the movie studios to give up on this Divx‘esque idea of files that expire after a certain time or number of viewings. If […]

Quick update on my front-end du jour, distantDVD. Tom over at VisualUnderground has released distantDVD version 0.06b that includes: Support for native display resolutions of; 1360×768, 1280×1024, 1280×720, 1024×768 and 800×600. In addition to the wider range of supported native resolutions, distantdvd-006b now supports for MP4 and MKV files for highdef media and material bought […]

I nearly titled this post ‘MediaCentral updated to 2.0 and equinux loses a potential customer’ but as of today equinux again offers version 1.2.1 of MediaCentral for download, why is this important? Long story short MediaCentral 2.0 (now $29.95) only offers a 5 minute demo of the software and overwrites your previous version. Once I […]