BusinessWeek: iTunes movie downloads and new ‘wider screen’ iPod by mid-September

Apple Store“Coming soon to a Mac or PC near you: Movies on iTunes. My BusinessWeek colleague Ron Grover has exclusive details about how how [sic] Wal-Mart, as the largest seller of DVDs — it sells about 40% of DVDs produced — is unhappy at the prospect of Hollywood studios doing business with Apple and iTunes. But here’s the best part, and a detail you won’t see anywhere else: The announcement is expected by mid-September, with prices of $14.99 for new releases and $9.99 for older movies,” Arik Hesseldahl blogs for BusinessWeek.

Hesseldahl writes, “I would have to guess is that there would have to be a new hardware product to go with such an announcement too, wouldn’t you? Grover says says a ‘wider screen’ iPod is on the way as well.”

Full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “AWidgetIHaveNot” for the heads up.]

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