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While inclusion of the “eye in the sky” All-22 game tape and condensed games the squeeze every play into a 30 minute football-fest are nice features for the NFL Game Rewind package, those looking to get their John Madden on can do so thanks to its apps for tablets. The telestrator feature is only mentioned in the notes for the iOS version so far, however the Android app shares in its ability stream the tape delayed games in HD, complete with stats and big play markers to jump straight to the key plays. While the apps themselves are free, you will need a paid subscription to the service at $34.99 to follow a single team, $39.99 for the entire league, and $69.99 for the Season Plus package that brings along the All-22 cam and telestrator features. Hit the source links for more info on the packages and exactly when the games are available for viewing, if you’re more of a Monday Morning QB than real-time NFL Red Zone / Sunday Ticket aficionado, they may work for you.

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NFL Game Rewind apps for iOS and Android tablets appear with coaches film and telestrator features originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Sep 2012 05:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Bruce Willis may not be the most likely candidate for a war on Apple and digital media licensing, but the Die Hard star has apparently engaged the lawyers in order to preserve his iTunes library legacy. Willis was supposedly outraged to discover that, upon his death, the licenses to his music, video, ebook, and other media purchased through iTunes will not be passed on to his children, The Sun reports, and is exploring ways to work around the rules.

Unlike physical media, digital downloads are only licensed – in effect “borrowed” – from the store they were bought from, rather than purchased outright. Although the discrepancy is little known among users, the outcome is that an entire library of content cannot be legally accessed once the person who bought those rights to playback has died.

Willis is supposedly setting up a trust, in which his downloads will be held, so that they can be made available to his children after his death. That’s probably not something every regular user will do, though the somewhat vague promise that the actor is now “backing legal moves to increase the rights of downloaders” might at least draw extra attention to exactly what rights you have when you hit “Buy” in iTunes or other download stores.

Whether, as has been reported, Willis will actually “sue” Apple over the rules remains to be seen. Digital Rights Management and issues of licensing have caused numerous headaches as downloads gain favor, with rival cloud playback services being unable to store and stream each other’s tracks and videos because of limitations around sharing.

[via Forbes]

Bruce Willis reportedly livid over iTunes death rules is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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The new iPhone (aka the iPhone 5) has been tipped several times by well-connected sources as having an announcement date of September 12 – today there’s a multi-sourced addition to that suggestion that says the event will not include the iPad mini. This next-generation size-reduced iPad device will instead be directed at an event in October, when Apple has held Music and iTunes-themed events in the past. As for the supposed Apple TV full-sized television set, that’s once again been lost to the rumor mill.

First you’ll want to check out the well thought out set of assumptions made by John Gruber of Daring Fireball, which say that a two-event release makes more sense than one. The first event, on September 12th indeed, there will be a new iPhone – a device which will then be released to the public on the 21st of September. Review units, he says, will also likely be seeded on the 12th of September at the event.

The second event would then be an iTunes event in the second week of October and would bring on several devices that are less fabulous all at once:

“An event where the iPad Air (cool, but just a smaller thinner cheaper iPad), new iPod Touch (cool, but just an iPhone without the phone), and maybe even new or at least updated iPod music players (eh) share the stage, tied together with the theme of consuming iTunes media content — that I can buy.” – Gruber

Then there’s another update coming from Jim Dalrymple of The Loop, a notoriously accurate source for Apple-related release information. Regarding the idea that there will be two events, the first having only “the new iPhone and iOS 6″, Dalrymple noted “Oh that Gruber is a smart fellow.” This essentially being a Bible-truth confirmation when it comes to the all-powerful tip-line that is well-connected Apple leaksters.

Have a peek at our [Apple portal] for more information on the upcoming set of devices that’ll be blowing the doors off your Apple-loving brain very, very soon, and let us know what you think of the next generation already in the mix!

iPhone 5 event tipped for split from iPad mini on September 12 is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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I don’t know how I’ve lasted this long on the Internet without deciding to sell my credit card’s soul to either Amazon or iTunes for movie watching and tv show buying purposes but I think it’s come to the point where I should pick one and move on with it. So which should I choose? More »

The app devs over at Sky Sports are having a busy year, and after improving their iPad offering for the F1 season, they’re back with a “second screen” update for football (soccer) fans. Just in time for the start of the UK Premier League season, the new Football Match Centre adds a content bar alongside your chosen stream showing team and player info, in-depth stats of the match in progress and a hand-picked Twitter feed for related musings. You might think the devs deserve a break, but sadly there’s no time — next on the agenda is a similar update for the Champions League tournament, then they’re bringing the second screen to golf fans before the Ryder Cup starts next month.

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Football fans score additional content in Sky Sports for iPad update originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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