Are movie rentals finally coming to iTunes?

by Daniel Langendorf

November 9th, 2007 | Posted in Other | No Comments

itunes movies small Thanks to the snooping of Evan DiBiase, it looks as though movie rentals are finally coming to iTunes.

Before installing any iTunes upgrade, DiBiase dumps the strings from the old iTunes binary, installs the upgrade, and compares old vs. new “to see what shows up.” Well, this is what he found.

rental – content

rental – bag

rbsync

source – rental – info

dest – rental – info

getvodaccountselectionlist

GET VOD ACCOUNT SELECTION LIST

supportsRentals

Although Apple has not announced movie rentals or VOD, it’s long been speculated that these are coming to iTunes, especially in light that Amazon and Netflix are already leagues ahead of Apple in digital movie rentals.

As DiBiase writes, “It sure looks like video rentals . . . are coming to iTunes soon. If they did, I would sure get more use out of my AppleTV.”

Ditto.

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