Just an interesting set of statistics via a Bernstein Research report on the downloadable movie count from the top services:

- Apple (298 films)
- Wal-Mart (1,037 films)
- Amazon.com (2,407 films)

Anybody have an idea how many are available form the xBox360 store?

Boooooo! Amazon.com's new video download store does not support Macintosh and they do not indicate if it's coming (now it gets 1 star!). Take that! That just sucks.

Good thing Apple's store will be here next week. Seems like a missed opportunity for Amazon to have gobbled up Apple users with a much broader selection than it sounds like Apple will have.

Quoted: Find, shop for and buy at Amazon.com

Update: I changed my rating to zero stars. Not only is Amazon not allowing me to download videos using my mac, they are not even indicating if it is in the way! Boooooo!

Amazon has launched their video download store! Try it now with a free TV Show download.

Quoted: Find, shop for, and buy unbox video at Amazon.com

Much more detail is coming out on the Amazon download service. It appears that movies will be rentable or purchaseable. If you rent, it will expire at some point. This could be great for travel! Download a video before you leave on your trip or from a hotel room...

It also appears that the player is based on Windows Media Player.

Omni Group, maker of some of the best Macintosh software on the planet (OmniOutliner, OmniWeb and OmniGraffle) have just released OmniPlan (and there is a free beta period until August 26th). I am very interested in trying this out when my Mac gets back from its nice vacation getting repaire din Cupertino.

There is finally a Flip4Mac WMV player that works on the new Intel machines. I need to download this when my machine gets back from Apple.

Flip4Mac allows you to play WMV files in Quicktime (since Windows no longer supports Mac with Windows Media Player).

Firefox 2 Beta is now available. If you're willing to give up your extensions, give it a try!