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Thursday 9th August 2007
TV and movies on UK iTunes in "a couple of weeks" 9:49AM, Thursday 9th August 2007
"Apple will start selling movies and TV programmes in the UK this month, according to Ars Technica.

The website cites "trusted sources inside the company" who have indicated that the UK iTunes Store will begin selling video content in "a couple of weeks".

"Things are apparently all set up and ready to go, so it's just a matter of flipping the switch,' Ars Technica claims.

The rest of Europe is expected to follow soon afterwards with Apple's European VP Pascal Cagni having told a French

 
 
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newspaper that movies would be available on iTunes Europe by the end of the year.

Quite what will be available remains a matter for conjecture, but one thing is for sure, it will work on Macs and Windows Vista, unlike a certain high-profile online video service that launched recently.

Apple began selling movies through the US iTunes Store last September, having been selling TV programmes since March. Movies typically cost $9.99 while individual TV episodes are $1.99. Movies are encoded in "near DVD quality" at 640x480, the same resolution as TV shows.

Video can be transferred to five computers, synced with all the iPods you own and burnt to DVD for data archiving purposes only (not for DVD playback). You can also sync to up to five Apple TVs.

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