Original Posting: The Electric Pulse Blog
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The iTunes story really gets weirder and weirder.
It wasnt so long ago that Apple and NBC / Universal broke up their love fest [Info Week]
That now it seems Apple and Fox News ( aka the king of all media Mr. Murdock ), will be joining forces to offer very recent movies by Fox Studios for rent off of iTunes.
The “for rent” sign is really interesting… The file be some sort of DRM ( Jobs claims to hate such restrictions ) and play for a limited amount of time. But hey, its a big market that Netflix and Blockbuster are deep in for mail services to your home.
The details are kinda sketchy, but Apple is pushing hard to get the Video business on par with the Music business and teaming up with Fox to get up to date content is a good move.
If this deal lasts, that makes iTunes the number 1 place to go for video content, having already offered the ABC / Walt Disney line up.