{"id":30910,"date":"2017-09-25T00:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T07:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.com\/?p=30910"},"modified":"2017-09-24T18:36:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T01:36:02","slug":"newsletter-issue-930-movie-rentals-4k-upgrades-and-other-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2017\/09\/newsletter-issue-930-movie-rentals-4k-upgrades-and-other-nonsense\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #930: Movie Rentals, 4K Upgrades and Other Nonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The entertainment industry has given us one thing, and sort of taken away something else, and it all begins with the fifth generation Apple TV, which adds 4K and HDR as its main new features.<\/p>\n<p>So as the new set-top box shipped, Apple announced an important change to the iTunes movie rental policy in the U.S. So up till now, you had 30 days to start watching the movie. 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