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Apple Computer system will commence selling film downloads from Walt Disney's film studios, in a bid to turn its iTunes online music store into a one-stop shop for digital entertainment. To get a few other highly regarded information, click nintendodslites.





Steve Jobs, the company's leader, said that Apple would also deliver a device in the 1st quarter of 2007 to let consumers stream motion pictures, music, photos, podcasts and television shows from the web to their home entertainment systems.



Code-named iTV, the device will cost $299. Analysts said on Tuesday that it could solve the entertainment industry's dilemma of bridging the gap between the living room television and the computer.



Apple's eagerly predicted movie service will sell new releases from the Disney, Pixar, Touchstone and Miramax studios for $12.99 if pre-ordered or bought during the first week available. Normally, new releases will cost $14.99 along with feature-length movies will cost $9.99. To get a few other highly regarded information, click digitalcamerasbatteries.





Jobs said that about 75 movies are now available on iTunes, and that they take about 30 minutes each to download for users with high-speed internet connections.



Consumers can view the movies on their iPods and computers, and in the end on televisions with the upcoming iTV player.



"In less than one year we've grown from offering just five Tv shows to offering over 220 Tv shows, and we dream to do the same with movies," Jobs said.



"iTunes is promoting over 1 million videos a week, and we anticipate to match that with motion pictures in less than a year," he added.



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Jobs, a Disney director and one of several company's largest individual shareholders, also introduced new versions of the iPod with brighter screens and longer battery life as Apple looks to expand its dominant position in digital music.



Analysts have said it was only a matter of time before Apple began selling full-length movie downloads via iTunes, which has already sold 1.5 billion songs and more than 45 million Television shows.



Longtime Apple watcher and analyst Tim Bajarin of Creative Strategies said: "Any of the other studios would be crazy not to jump on this."