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iTunes feature films?

03/02, 10:40am

Study points to iTunes feature films

Apple could be in the intermediate stages of developing an iTunes movie download service to offer full length feature films to iTunes customers with broadband internet connections. A survey distributed this week through Coyote Insight--a California-based market research firm--asked participants to answer a series of questions related to a potential "iTunes movie service" which would provide on-demand access to movies that could be downloaded to a computer, or an iPod. "This iTunes service would provide access to 1,000 movies on demand which can be downloaded to your computer and, in turn, to your video iPod if you have one, or even your television if it is connected to your computer," a description in the survey read. The service would operate similarly to Apple's current iTunes download services for songs and videos, with one or two differences: "The first difference is you would need to have a high speed (broadband) internet connection such as DSL or cable modem to use the service. The second difference is access to the movies is offered on a monthly subscription basis."