Apple close to iTunes Store movie rentals?
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 9, 2007 at 7:04pm
Apple has been repeatedly rumored to be close to offering movie rentals from the iTunes Music Store, and one blogger claims to be holding the answer as to when this may happen, reports BetaNews.
Evan DiBiase, a student at Carnegie Mellon University, says that while doing a dump of the strings from the old version of iTunes to compare them with the new ones, he discovered several new strings. In the new iTunes 7.5 upgrade, several new strings pop up, he says. They are: rental-content, rental-bag, rbsync, source-rental-info, dest-rental-info, getvodaccountselectionlist, GET VOD ACCOUNT SELECTION LIST, and supportsRentals.
BetaNews says these strings seem to suggest that Apple may finally be ready to add rentals to its list of available content options on iTunes.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
