By Christina Warren for Mashable Apple has axed its TV rental program within iTunes. The company introduced the ability to rent certain episodes of television programs for $0.99 each last September, in conjunction with the rejiggered Apple TV. AllThingsD quotes an Apple spokesman as saying, “iTunes customers have shown they overwhelmingly prefer buying TV shows.” Earlier this month, Apple added TV [...]

By Graham Spencer for Macstories.net Amazon wasn’t the only content provider to launch an iPad web app today, with VUDU also bringing its video-on-demand service to the iPad via a web app. VUDU, which is owned by Walmart and claims to be “a leading subscription-free, video-on-demand movie service” chose to optimise the site for the iPad and now [...]

By James McQuivy for PaidContent.org All through the past decade, observers in industry and on Wall Street have had a handful of reasons to discount Netflix’s efforts. First, they claimed that Netflix could not beat Blockbuster’s entrenched retail presence. Wrong. Then they felt that Netflix could never attract people to its scant digital video offerings. [...]

From Gawker.com AMC, home of all that is good on television (Mad Men, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead), has just announced that they are expanding from the small screen, to the, er, smaller screen. Today marks the launch of what other networks will surely be quick to mimic, AMC Digital Studio. An exclusive home for [...]

By Inga Kiderra Many of us go to extraordinary lengths to avoid learning the endings of stories we have yet to read or see – plugging our ears, for example, and loudly repeating “la-la-la-la,” when discussion threatens to reveal the outcome. Of book and movie critics, we demand they not give away any plot twists [...]