Tuesday, May 10, 2005

The iTunes Music Store is now selling videos, in the U.S. store at least.

As of this writing, they offer no preview, and their times are listed as zero, which they obviously are not.

Too bad I accidently bought the single song first and then had to buy the album again to try the videos. They show up in the "Purchased Music" playlist just like any other song, and behave in the same way that videos imported from your hard drive do, with the option to play them in the "Album Art" box, in a separate window, or full screen. My purchase history indicates that I was able to do this as of 9:20 PM tonight.

I have not yet had a chance to test if movies can be shared via Bonjour. I did transfer one of the files to another (non-authorized) computer via another method, and it plays, meaning there is no DRM. Very interesting. The videos do not transfer to iPods.