In 26, Aug, Apple quietly removed the iTunes Store TV rental. Apple released the new Apple TV in September 2010, while introducing of television rental service, providing the television rental service of $ 1 per episode. But now the TV rental options just disappear, and Apple has confirmed the message that it has been removed permanently. So for those of you looking to rent your favorite TV shows from iTunes, you are too late.

A spokesman of Apple said, overwhelming data shows that consumers of iTunes are more desirable to buy TV shows, not rent. Now ITunes cloud allows users to download and watch their favorite TV show, as long as they have any device of IOS, not just Apple TV, even Macbook or Mac desktop, with them we can still enjoy these TV shows. iTunes cloud application was released in the WWDC conference in June 2011 for the first time, the, it supports resume, download music, books, and applications. And in earlier time this month, Apple has expanded its capabilities to allow users to download and resume TV shows on their computer and iOS, also, consumers can purchase the previous stream on Apple TV. Although the lease option is off, but the service to buy TV shows in iTunes still exists, $ 2 per episode, $ 3 per episode for high-definition TV. iTunes App Store provides a complete TV season. And it doesn't affect the movie rental in iTunes App Store.

Over the past year, rental prices have increased from $ 1.99 down to $ 0.99, but the users whoare interested in leasing service are still very few. Finally, Apple decided to give up the business, because its upcoming iCloud processor can transfer the movies and television programs that saved in iCloud to iPhone, iPad or other equipment that iCloud can support, then users can watch them conveniently. iCloud is in testing phase currently and will be officially launched later this year, may be at the same time with our long-waited iPhone5 and new iPod. The upcoming iTunes in the Cloud service will let you stream purchased content on all of your devices with ease. Considering the upcoming service, the rental of television shows just isn't attractive -especially when the cost of doing so isn't considerably cheaper than actually buying them, giving you all the time in the world to enjoy them on your schedule.

Knowing Apple, they haven't fully given up on television rentals. A lot of speculation suggests their next attempt will be with an iTunes in the Cloud television subscription service. Whatever they come up with, it will have to be more competitive with other streaming services out there right now. Hulu offers the streaming of many current television shows for free, while their plus service offers a large full-episode catalog for a low monthly fee. Netflix is another viable option, though their catalog is often somewhat slower to update. But I bet after Apple launching iCloud, most users will support them, after it's Apple, and if the release date is really the same with iPhone5 or iPad3, it will cause a great influence in the world.

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Certainly you are familiar with iPad, iPod and iPhone those Apple brand products, but there is still a question about Apple TV, when I first heard that name, I pictured a big screen television with special features in my head, of course, now I know it was an honest mistake.



This week the folks at Apple have sent out an update to Apple TV users everywhere that they could have the newest build that addresses several issues found in the version released right alongside the iOS 5 release this October. Apple TV version 4.4 is now updated to version 4.4.3 which is indeed the third update since the original 4.4 release. For those of you still on a pre-4.4 release, note that everything newer adds several features like Wall Street Journal Live, National Hockey League Content, Photo Stream, AirPlay Mirroring support, and iTunes Trailers.

The early Apple TV models had a hard drive that would sync with your computers' iTunes libraries. You could also buy movies from the iTunes store and save them to the Apple TV's hard drive. However, the second generation Apple TV does not have a hard drive so it can only stream media. But if you want to watch DVD movies in Apple TV, easy, you just need a free mac dvd burner to copy movies to your iTunes, then you can hook up the Apple TV to iTunes.

So here is a question, what do we need to know about how to set up Apple TV?

1.First, you need to buy one HDMI cable. Plug the cable into your HDTV or receiver and your Apple TV. Connect the device to a power outlet, then it will boot up.

2.Then, you need to choose the language you speak.

3.The Apple TV will then scan for available WiFi networks to connect to (assuming you're using WiFi, that is. The Apple TV can also connect via Ethernet). Find yours and choose it. Then enter your password (case sensitive, of course) and hit "done."



4.Choose whether you want your Apple TV to report diagnostic information to Apple or not, and continue.

5.Make sure Home Sharing is enabled on your main home computer. Home Sharing allows you to stream content from your iTunes library to the Apple TV to be displayed on your HDTV. Sign into Home Sharing with the same iTunes account used for sharing on your main iTunes library.

6.At this point, you should be all set. The Apple TV ought to be connected to your WiFi network and the Internet, as well as the iTunes library on your computer.

And remember, even though we can't save movies in the hard drive, because the newest Apple TV doesn't have hard drive, but we still can watch many DVD movies with it, what we need to do is copy dvd on mac, hook up those DVD movies to our iTunes library, then connect Apple TV to iTunes.

If you have any of Apple products, then you must know that one tool is essential, which is iTunes, all of our music and videos are purchased in iTunes, it provides all we need for entertainment, but there is one pity - we can't play iTunes stuff with other devices like Zune, PSP, Creative Zen, Sony Walkman, Cell Phone, Blackberry, HTC, Gphone, etc, because of the Apple DRM protection.

Then what is DRM protection? DRM (Digital Rights Management) is a term used to describe procedures which are taken to prevent unauthorized use of the media in question. So, for example, if you have music with DRM purchased from the iTunes store, you will not be able to play them on any media player, other than Apple's. You will also not be able to convert these files to the MP3 format because Apple, under DRM, doesn't give you the rights to do so. But that's not what we want, what we want is we can play those songs and videos with whatever devices we want to. So how do we remove DRM protections from iTunes files legally? Basically, there are two ways.

The first one, we can remove protect with some software, for example, drm removal, of course, there are a bunch of removals out there, you just need to chose one. Basically, DRM removal can help you remove DRM protection from movies and songs bought from iTunes, Microsoft Media Center, Napster, Pandora, Spiral Frog and other DRM protected media center legally, you just need to install this software, then it can help you do what you want, there are free ones and paid one, but the paid ones may be worthy to trust, meaning it has a better quality.



The second method is burn whatever you want on a CD/DVD. Here are the steps, Insert a blank CD/DVD in the drive and open iTunes on your computer. Select the File->New Playlist option. The next step is to select all the files that you want to remove DRM from and drag them to the playlist that you just created. Now that you have all the tracks you want on the CD/DVD media, right-click the playlist and select the option to "Burn playlist to Disc". iTunes will present you a dialogue box where you can select the kind of CD/DVD that you want to burn. Make sure you select the Audio CD option. Selecting the Edit->Preferences option and under the General tab, click on Import Settings. Select the MP3 Encoder from the drop down list and you're all set to import the track on the Audio CD that you just wrote as MP3 files. Remove the CD from the drive, and insert it back again. iTunes will prompt you to import the tracks from the CD to it's own database. Let it do so and at the end of the import process, you'll have new MP3 tracks void of any DRM.

You can see that the second method only can remove DRM protection of music from iTunes, which means if we want to remove drm from epub, it can't help us, but DRM removal that you can find in the internet is powerful enough to help you remove protection from anything you want.