What better way to celebrate Independence Day then to list the HD rental titles which have been taken from us by the studios over the last few weeks. Here they are, just in case you wanted to rent one over this holiday weekend.

Arthur
Daddy Day Camp
Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights
Focus
Heartbreak Kid
House of Wax
Live Free or Die Hard
Rush Hour 3
Saw IV
Stardust
The Game Plan
The Matrix
The Simpsons
Things We Lost in the Fire

This is a bit of yesterdays news but Gizmodo is reporting that there are rumors that a Flash enabled browser may enable the Roku box to stream Hulu, YouTube and various other individual network sites. Of course Gizmodo goes on to say that this could be the feature which sets the Roku apart from the Apple TV. I’m not sure that even now Roku is in Apple TV’s league. With the Apple TV offering HD content, YouTube content, TV Shows, Podcasts and photo streaming, I think the Roku has a ways to go before they find a set of features to match let along set it apart from Apple TV. What do you think?

Read the entire article over at Gizmodo.

Two more movies were added to the HD rental list last night. We get The Chronicles of Riddick (Unrated Version) and Magic in the Water.

Oh those patriotic studios. Just in time for the 4th, Independence Day becomes available as an HD rental. Along with ID we also get Halls of Montezuma and Love and A Bullet as HD rentals.

The Eye and Meet The Spartans are now available to rent in HD on your Apple TV.

Meet The Spartans is available in a Unrated and PG-13 versions.

We thought we would go in a little lighter direction this week with the poll and seeing that most of you are probably movie geeks like us, we thought this would be a great poll to run. If you’ve ever been to Comic-Con you know what a movie geeks dream it is. A few of us ATV Junkies will be there and I personally will be there covering most of it. So we want to know if plan on attending. Let us know and take the poll on the right.

We would also like to thank everyone who participated in last weeks poll. It looks like most of the 260+ people who took the poll rent 1-3 movies a week.

I know this isn’t HD news, but with The Dark Knight right around the corner and Comic-Con coming to town in a few weeks, this gets me pumped. Apple has added a DC Comics animation category to the TV Shows section of the iTunes Store. You’ll find shows from Batman Beyond to the original Max Fleischer Superman cartoons.

Speaking of HD content, when are we going to get HD TV Shows on Apple TV? I would think customers would start to expect this come next year when even broadcast TV turns to an HD Digital standard.