Steve Jobs rubbished Blu-ray yesterday, calling format a “bag of hurt,” no doubt putting a tear in the eye of message boarders everywhere. (How much do you want to bet that he’ll call the next revision of the iMac “epic”?) But is that a big deal, that Apple, apparently, has no interest in incorporating Blu-ray [...]

Phew! For a second there I actually believed Apple when it threatened to shut down iTunes. Now it won’t have to, seeing as though the Copyright Royalty Board in Washington has left royalty rates unchanged.
And what does Apple have to save, now that it knows it will only have to pay 9.1 cents per song [...]

Just a quick note regarding iTunes. Apple has updated it to version 8.0.1, and this release fixes a few quirks that no doubt annoyed some of you. The bug that caused iTunes to copy over HD versions of a TV show with an SD version is now squashed.

Tags: apple, Genius, iTunes, MP3, music

by Ron Grover
The music industry is looking for its next act. And MySpace, News Corp.’s (NWS) social network, intends to provide it. On Sept. 25, the giant social network is finally unveiling its long-anticipated (and hardly secret) MySpace Music site, which will be the music industry’s largest attempt to date to generate advertising revenue in [...]

by Matt Vella
It’s been more than seven years since Apple (AAPL) Chief Executive Steve Jobs bounded onto the stage at the annual MacWorld conference in San Francisco and took the wraps off the first version of iTunes. And oh, what a difference (nearly) a decade makes: The desktop jukebox has evolved from a simple, no-frills [...]

Jeff Zucker’s feud with Steve Jobs is over, apparently. NBC U shows are coming back to iTunes, including The Office, Monk, Battlestar Galactica, 30 Rock and Heroes, Steve Jobs said, opening his “Let’s Rock” iPod unveiling in San Francisco.

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As expected, Apple boss Steve Jobs announced new iPods today, as well as a new version of Apple’s iTunes software.

Tags: iPod Nano, ipod touch, iTunes

Not to be outdone by whatever iTunes/iPod services Apple’s (AAPL) Steve Jobs could be planning to announce next week, Amazon (AMZN) has rolled out its new Amazon Video on Demand video streaming service.

Tags: Amazon, hulu, iTunes, Netflix