http://www.appletvjunkie.com Apple TV Junkie (appletvjunkie.com) has arrived on the scene to provide a helpful new service for users of the Apple TV. It was born out of a surprising shortcoming on the Apple TV after noticing that there was no comprehensive list of high definition movies anywhere. ATVJ fills that niche with a full list of all HD movies which is updated daily. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:08:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.appletvjunkie.com/list-of-hd-titles-removed-from-apple-tv 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 ... http://www.appletvjunkie.com/hulu-streaming-maybe-coming-to-netflixs-roku-box 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. http://www.appletvjunkie.com/two-more-movies-added-to-the-hd-list 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. http://www.appletvjunkie.com/just-in-time-for-the-4th-independence-day-now-available-as-hd-rental 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. http://www.appletvjunkie.com/the-eye-and-meet-the-spartans-now-available-as-hd-rentals 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 ... http://www.appletvjunkie.com/this-weeks-new-poll-whos-going-to-comic-con 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 ... http://www.appletvjunkie.com/apple-adds-dc-comics-animation-category-to-itunes We have twelve new additions to the HD rental list tonight, all are catalog titles except one. We have, Bad Girls, Bingo, Ghoulies II, Hang 'Em High, Lethal Weapon 4, Ocean's 11 (1960), Sixteen Candles, The Philadelphia Story, The Wrong Man, Twilight Zone: The Movie, and Nowhere to Run. The one ... http://www.appletvjunkie.com/12-new-additions-to-the-hd-rental-list WarGames is the $.99 movie of the week for the week of July 1st. http://www.appletvjunkie.com/wargames-is-the-99-movie-of-the-week Vantage Point, Drillbit Taylor and Meet The Browns are now available to purchase either through the iTunes Movie Store or Apple TV. As for renting these titles, Drillbit Taylor will be available on July 30th and Vantage Point on July 31st. There is no rental date for Meet the Browns. http://www.appletvjunkie.com/vantage-point-and-drillbit-taylor-now-available-as-new-purchase-titles The New York Times is reporting that Sony will allow owners of a Internet-enabled Bravia (The Bravia Internet link) to download Hancock before the DVD hits. Should Apple try to move into this space? I mean Jobs kind of oversees Disney/Pixar and they just released a big hit over the ... http://www.appletvjunkie.com/download-before-dvd-maybe The iTunes Movie Store is definitely making this part a little easier by adding the rental date for most new release titles. Below is a list of possible new rental or purchase titles to look for on Apple TV this week. Available For Rent In July The Eye (Rental Release Date 7-02-08) Meet ... http://www.appletvjunkie.com/new-rentalpurchase-titles-to-look-for-this-week-3 Via MacRumors, reports are coming in from .Mac users that their MobileMe email address is now active. This appears to be hit and miss as my .Mac email address is currently not working under the MobileMe domain. But if Apple is beginning to flip the switch on MobileMe us Apple ... http://www.appletvjunkie.com/mobileme-update-for-apple-tv-just-around-the-corner Now that movie rentals have been around for the better part of four months on Apple TV, what has your rental experience been like? What do you think of the overall quality of the picture? Are some movies better encoded then others? Has the sound quality been everything you thought ... http://www.appletvjunkie.com/your-apple-tv-rental-experience Apple is having a heck of an end of the week for adding HD rental titles. The three new additions include Against All Odds, Erin Brockovich and The Fugitive. http://www.appletvjunkie.com/3-more-hd-rental-additions-for-the-weekend Apple TV and iPhone/iPod Touch users may get their wish after all. MacRumors is reporting that within a Read Me of a pre-release version of iTunes 7.7 we get a hint at a previously unannounced iPhone/iPod Touch app. The Read Me states, "Also use the new Remote application for iPhone ... http://www.appletvjunkie.com/itunes-remote-control-app-coming-for-iphone-and-ipod-touchcould-an-apple-tv-version-be-far-behind Yes, you read that right, we get in total 17 new HD rental titles tonight. They include Untraceable, I Am Legend (Alternate Ending), An American in Paris, Buddy, Nightmare Man, Ordinary People, Pale Rider, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Presumed Innocent, Strangers on a Train, Lethal Weapon, Space Jam, Stage Fright, The ... http://www.appletvjunkie.com/untraceable-now-available-as-hd-rental-brings-along-16-new-hd-rental-titles In a report out this week by the Entertainment Merchants Association, estimates are that by 2012 Blu-ray discs will overtake standard-disc sales. Apparently the EMA believes that Blu-ray sales will surge to $9.5 billion by then. What's this have to do with the Apple TV you say? I've always been a ... http://www.appletvjunkie.com/blu-ray-discs-to-overtake-standard-disc-sales-by-2012 As a Mac user I'm familiar with all of the popular DVD "Backup" tools, such as Handbrake or Visualhub. So the question I posed over in the ATVJ forum is, what are the best Window apps for backing up DVD's? If you have a favorite head on over to the ... http://www.appletvjunkie.com/best-windows-dvd-backup-app Warner Home Video joins Twentieth Century Fox in offering, at least in one case, an iTunes Digital Download on the Blu-ray disc version of 10,000 BC. According to iLounge what's slightly different with the Warner version of the digital download is that the digital copy will be offered as a ... http://www.appletvjunkie.com/blu-ray-versions-of-10000-bc-come-with-itunes-digital-download