The long awaited rentals are finally on iTunes, hours after the keynote (about 12 hours).

iTV / iTV Software update Information

• Update Available in 2 weeks, no new iTV!
• Dropped Prices $70 from $299 to $229
• No computer required, you can do everything straight from the box! Music, Video,Rentals etc..
• Syncs with iTunes as before except you can reverse sync.
• Dolby 5.1
• Hooks into .Mac and Flickr
• All the same older stuff too.

iTunes Rentals

• Touchstone, Miramax, MGM, Lions Gate, Newline, Fox, Warner Brothers, Disney, Paramount, Universal and Sony
• Available 30 days after DVD release BOOOOOOOOOOO, Definitely not a Blockbuster killer.
• Price
  • $2.99 (Standard Def) Older Rentals
  • $3.99 (Standard Def) Newer Rentals
  • $4.99 (High Def)
• 24 Hours to keep when started watching, 30 days to hold if you never watched
• Starting 2 weeks in US, later in other countries

Netflix announced unlimited movie streaming starting monday, the day before Macworld according the to the alternative press. Prior to this announcement, Netflix subscribers were only allowed to watch a fixed amount of “Watch Instantly” movies based on their subscription plan. Video Streaming sill sucks, until streaming devices come available for the TV (mid 2008). I personally would hate to watch movies on the computer, but that’s just me.

Macosxhints.com provided a very cool tutorial today on how to prevent electromagnetic interference with your iPhone. If your constantly hearing annoying noises when your near speakers with your iPhone, this will stop it.

1. All you have to do it cut out 2 inch x 3 inch piece of aluminum foil
2. Fold the longer side in half to make it 2 inch x 1.5 inch.
3. Tape the foil to the bottom right corner with electric tape like the picture above (longer side horizontal to the bottom).

It might be a little eye sore, but if you have it in a case, you won’t see it.

The Testing for Signal Differences

I have gone over 4 hours so far with no problems. I even tested this on an hour car drive from work with no issues.

I went to the store and bought more foil for pictured results, to compare two iPhones side by side.

Pictured Results

Here’s with double the foil recommended & bigger (on the right) and an iPhone with no foil (to the left)

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