Movies use the same video codec, but are now available in 640-by-480-pixel resolution-“near-DVD quality,” according to Apple-or four times the number of pixels you’ll find in a 320-by-240 video. That looked good on an iPod, but was very small for a high-resolution computer screen, not to mention a television. Prior to the addition of movies, all video content on the iTunes Store was encoded using the H.264 codec at a size of 320-by-240 pixels. Is that going to be true of these movies, too? I bought a TV show on iTunes and it wasn’t great in terms of picture quality. On most broadband connections the time to download the movie will be much less than the movie’s running time, so by the time you get to the end, the entire thing will have been downloaded. And you can watch the movie even while it’s downloading-just double-click on the movie and it’ll begin to play. This could be particularly useful if you’re browsing the iTunes Store at a wireless hot spot and decide to purchase a movie, but want to wait until you get home to download it. ITunes 7 adds a download manager, which makes it easy for you to reorganize your download order, as well as pause a download to resume later. But what if I don’t have that much time on my hands?
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