IPod Tackles Online Movies

New Delhi (dbtechno) - The tiny iPod media device has slowly led to the demise of many of the music stores and venues across the United States. Many people feel that the lessening of music stores can be traced to the ability to download and record music on the portable iPod devices.

But will the same thing happen to movie rental stores?

No one knows for sure, but with their audacious attempt to foray into the online movie business, a new chapter in movie distribution is being written and created. Apple recently announced a deal in the works with 20th Century Fox Studios, for distribution of movies that have been released to DVD, and the promise of using movies and viewing them on your iPod has a lot of people excited.

Older models of the iPod will not be able to play video, but they have led to a avalanche of music downloading, customers often pass traditional record stores by to download music, and this had seriously hit the music stores profitability.

Beginning next month in January 08, Apple plans to use its iPod device to download movies from the Fox Studios vault to the customer. While at first many people show disbelief, because of the huge changes in how music is downloaded that the iPod device helped create, no one is disbelieving now.

According to Apple, users and customers with iPod devices will be able to rent movies from Fox Studios on its iTunes online digital media store.

Apple is not the first to venture into digital video rentals, but they are the first to produce a proven product that can do it portably. The iPod and iTunes delivery format could prove to be a giant killer to established online download stores, such as Blockbuster and NetFlix.

After the iPod was introduced, sales of CD records fell more than thirty percent in 2007, compared to sales in 2000. Huge chain stores such as Tower Records closed down.

It’s hard to predict, but the use of iPods for movie downloads promises to change everything.