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It should have been hard to figure this out.  The music industry can’t even choose its own right strategy, but when others drive the industry (through developments like MP3s in the last decade) they win.  Perhaps record executives should start listening. Oh, wait.  Too late.

Get ready.  Here’s a selection from a survey Netflix is sending around to customers: “Imagine that Netflix offers its subscribers the ability to instantly watch movies & TV episodes on their iPhone. The selection availability to instantly watch includes some new releases, lots of classics and TV episodes. There are no advertisements or trailers, and [...]

Twenty bucks says Steve Jobs is a big part of this one.  We’ll know when Apple shares their plans for the future of media either later this month or later this year. via Disney renegotiating Starz deal, might pull movies from Netflix streaming — Engadget.

Patently Apple picked up a very recent patent application for DVR technology likely to be employed by Apple any day now.  This promises to (if we’re lucky) finally blur the lines of distinction between local content sources.  In other words, perhaps when combined with the Home Sharing feature recently added to iTunes, we’ll no longer [...]