http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/23/nintendo.wii.gets.sesame.street.episodes.more/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/wiivideo1.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />As promised, Nintendo will soon begin offering a paid video service in its home market of Japan. While free content has been available in Japan since May, users will now be able to access popular TV programs that include Sesame Street, Pocket Monsters, Pokemon and Nintendo's own educational programming.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/23/nintendo.wii.gets.sesame.street.episodes.more/ Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:40:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/02/youtube.may.rent.major.labels.via.t/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/gallery/sep2009/youtubehd-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />YouTube could be forging a deal that would give it paid movie rentals, a leak this evening may have revealed. Google's video streaming site is reportedly in talks with Lionsgate, Sony and Warner to host streaming versions of titles. The WSJ source understands that a rental would typically cost $4 but that pricing would be consistent with other video-on-demand services; the standard price would b... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/02/youtube.may.rent.major.labels.via.t/ Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:55:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/26/film.fresh.divx.movies/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0908/filmfresh.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Young movie store Film Fresh today launched itself as the first US-based movie store to provide downloads from larger studios in DivX form. Lionsgate, Paramount, Sony and Warner have all agreed to include both recent and classic titles on the store and as a result have created one of the first few truly cross-platform movie services. Although the videos are still copy-protected, the choice of Di... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/26/film.fresh.divx.movies/ Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:20:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/18/qtrax.outs.music.downloads/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0801/qtrax.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Qtrax recently announced that its free and legal music download service will soon launch, naming October 28th as the launch date in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand. A launch in the US, Canada and the UK will happen before year's end, Qtrax informs, while the rest of the world will get the service within the first half of 2010. The re... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/18/qtrax.outs.music.downloads/ Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/11/cmx.album.music.format/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0908/paulmccartney.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Major music labels are developing their own whole-album music file format after being rebuffed by Apple, a source for a UK newspaper says. Created by EMI, Sony, Universal and Warner, a file format known as CMX would contain both the songs as well as liner notes, attached videos and mobile content. Much like a DVD, it would have its own "launch page" that appears after launching a given file.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/11/cmx.album.music.format/ Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:25:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/27/apple.expands.record.deals/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0902/depechemode.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple is planning to expand the content buyers receive when shopping for iTunes music, writes the Financial Times. The company is currently said to be in negotiations with the four major record labels -- EMI, Sony, Warner and Universal -- regarding a project called "Cocktail," aimed at boosting music sales by supplying interactive material with albums. At the core of the concept is a new booklet... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/27/apple.expands.record.deals/ Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:55:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/05/08/ms.may.have.bought.seeqpod/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0904/zunehd-leak2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Seeqpod has been providing clues that suggest it may have been acquired by Microsoft. After entering bankruptcy and suffering repeated site shutdowns, the music-playing search site has come back with a notice that it's undergoing a "metamorphosis" and links to Microsoft's Live Search site instead. Seeqpod chief Kasian Franks has previously acknowledged that his company was in later-stage talks w... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/05/08/ms.may.have.bought.seeqpod/ Fri, 08 May 2009 18:05:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/04/07/amazon.mp3.raises.prices/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0904/amazonmp3.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Amazon MP3 and Walmart weren't immune to pressure for variable song pricing and today started quietly charging higher prices for popular songs. In particular, about 10 of the top 100 songs on Amazon now meet the same $1.29 prices as similar tracks on iTunes, including recent Beyonce, Britney Spears and The Fray songs. Walmart's store, in turn, is now charging $1.24 per song for some titles and h... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/04/07/amazon.mp3.raises.prices/ Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:20:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/03/30/google.offers.free.songs/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0903/googlechinasong.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />report maintains that compared to Baidu, Google has not offered high quality legal music downloads, which hurt its popularity. Google will share its advertising revenue with the music labels to make downloads legal and keep artists happy. The brand-new service so far offers 350,000 tracks from Chinese and foreign artists, although this is expected to jump to 1.1 million songs over the next few mon... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/03/30/google.offers.free.songs/ Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:35:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/03/04/zilliontv.debut/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0903/zilliontv.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />A new device and matching service from a startup could offer serious competition in online video to larger rivals like Apple and Netflix. ZillionTV's self-titled service will give users a core networking device, known as the Z-bar, that would have no local video storage of its own and would instead stream movies and TV shows online. Rather than following the similarly network-based Roku's model ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/03/04/zilliontv.debut/ Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:40:00 GMT