Andre Yoskowitz
9 Nov 2007 18:25
Although the rumors of Apple offering movie rentals through its iTunes platform are certainly not new, a Carnegie Mellon student has evidence that movie rentals are indeed coming soon.
The student has posted that while doing a dump of the strings from an older version of iTunes to compare them to the new 7.5 upgrade released this weeks, he discovered a few interesting new strings.
They are: "rental-content, rental-bag, rbsync, source-rental-info, dest-rental-info, getvodaccountselectionlist, GET VOD ACCOUNT SELECTION LIST, and supportsRentals."
Those strings would imply that Apple may finally be adding movie rentals to its available content on iTunes.
Say a few analysts, "We've been predicting that Apple was going to provide rentals for about five months now," Blackfriars Communications analyst Carl Howe said. "It will give a nice bump to Apple TV sales over the holidays, which we had also predicted would remain low until this release."
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