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iTunes

Slow week on iTMS?

February 21, 2006

The last few weeks on iTMS have been busy ones with swimsuits, weed, mice and buttheads, so maybe they let their engineers out of their cages last weekend. Only two new shows (although I’m not sure one counts) this week, America’s Funniest Home Videos and the more interesting release, Conviction, a soon-to-air new TV show [...]

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Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Video to go

February 13, 2006

Jonesing for your Swimsuit Edition in you pocket? Tomorrow morning, Apple is there to help you view SI‘s bathing beauties while on that commuter flight to Des Moines. $16 gets you all the videos for your iPod so you can look less creepy in coach oogling scantily clad young girls in your spare time. Read [...]

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1 Billion downloads

February 8, 2006

What would a day be without a little news about the iTMS? To celebrate the billionth track sold on iTMS, Apple is giving away a Nano and and a $100 gift certificate for every 100,000 songs sold (about 500) until they reach 1 billion songs. For the billionth track, the grand prize is an iMac, [...]

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What is Apple smoking?

February 7, 2006

It’s Tuesday morning, so what’s new for our pals at the iTunes Video Store? Looks like they bagged a big one – Showtime. It seems that premium cable didn’t want to be left out of the iTMS fun. This morning, Weeds, Fat Actress, and Sleeper Cell launched on iTMS with their first seasons available to [...]

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Beavis vs. Cartman on iTMS

January 26, 2006

The announcements keep coming from our friends over at iTunes. Here’s a short list of everything added to iTMS: MTV – Beavis and Butthead, Jackass, Punk’d, Gauntlet 2, and more Nickelodeon – Spongebob Squarepants, Dora the Explorer, Zoey 101 Comedy Central – South Park, Drawn Together, Best of Standup Looks like Apple must have signed [...]

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Oh, and one more thing…

January 24, 2006

Man, no sooner did this deal get done and an Disney’s newest large stockholder is already making some improvements on his investment. Wanna download some Disney shorts for your iPod? 10 new Disney shorts popped on iTMS this afternoon (maybe I should rename this blog iTMSWatch, I spend waaaay too much time there). Gotta hand [...]

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Ebert and Roeper, Munsters join iTunes

January 24, 2006

Not the most exciting new additions to iTMS, but Apple is furthering their offerings this morning with “Ebert and Roeper” and “The Munsters”. What is interesting here is pricing. While the episodes remain at the oh-so-simple $1.99, the first season of “The Munsters” (38 episodes) will cost you a whopping $54.99 yet the last 20 [...]

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Apple mea culpa?

January 19, 2006

Looks like the Postal Service video that everyone has been talking about went up on iTMS today. An apology from Apple and the video’s directors for blatantly ripping off the band? Only Apple knows for sure. View Preview View Mac Intel Inside Ad

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Battlestar Galactica Free on iTMS

December 22, 2005

Well, at least a summary of the first season and a half, but as far as I know, this is the first free video that Apple has posted. Seems like this might be a way to get folks hooked on BG and/or the concept of video downloads. So, if you wanna catch up on Battlestar [...]

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