<![CDATA[io9: itunes]]> http://tags.lifehacker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: itunes]]> http://io9.com/tag/itunes http://io9.com/tag/itunes <![CDATA[Paranormal Activity Continues On Your iPhone]]> Want to know what happened to Paranormal Activity's sweet couple after a terrible entity infested their house? Now you can. Apple is continuing the story in a comic-book iPhone application. And we've got the first set of stills. Spoilers ahead...

The comic is called Paranormal Activity: The Search For Katie, A Case Study by Dr. Johann Averys DMN. And if you remember the end of the film, Katie has vanished and Micah is... well, gone as well, sadly. Apple paired up with IDW to continue the story. The comic app picks up right after that, with the demon expert Dr. Averys finally showing up to their home, and searching for Katie, and some answers. It was written by Scott Lobdell and drawn by Mark Badger. Here are the first set of exclusive stills from the beginning.


We emailed Lobdell asking why he thought the story must go on, since the ending seemed so definite, we didn't think there could be a sequel even in a comic book series. To which he responded:

I have to disagree! Even before I left the movie theater my mind was racing though a hundred different questions! Where did Katie go? How long had she been in thrall to the demon? Why did he do what he did to Micah... or have Katie do it? What about the mysterious Dr. Johann Averys — often mentioned but never seen? Could the case he was working on in Europe have anything to do with the case in San Diego? What would the investigation into the murder be like? One part cop forensics, one part study in demonology? The demon seemed like it had much larger fish to fry to scaring young women... could it have followers? A lot of this is set up in the first installment of the online comic book, and I can't wait for the opportunity to further explore the world of Paranormal Activity.

The application is available now at itunes, For 99 cents.

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<![CDATA[Dollhouse Finds Its Audience... On iTunes]]> The ratings and reviews for new Joss Whedon show Dollhouse weren't exactly wonderful, but there's one place where the love for the show is easy to find... Apple's iTunes store.

"Ghost," the first episode of Whedon's new Fox series, is the best-selling TV show at the Apple store, having spent the last few days slowly creeping up the charts (It started as the 19th most popular, on Saturday). Is this a sign that the critical tide is turning for the troubled show, or just that the Whedon Faithful are supporting the show in any and every way that they can?

Now I'm even more interested to see what the show's audience is, once time-shifted audiences have been factored in.

Joss Whedon's Dollhouse scratches its way to #1 on iTunes! [TV By The Numbers]

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<![CDATA[An Apple A Day Makes The Doctor... Available, Apparently]]> Inspired by our suggestion to deal with the current Doctor Who drought by dipping back into the series' pre-Russell T Davies history? If you're an iTunes user, that's just been made easier than ever before: the BBC has released fourteen classic stories from the '60s, '70s and '80s on Steve Jobs' favorite DRM-happy resource - including episodes unavailable on DVD.

The stories available in their entirety (Stories lasted multiple episodes before the relaunch, and the iTunes store offers each story episode by episode) are suspiciously Jon Pertwee-heavy, but also include offerings from the Patrick Troughton, Tom Baker and Colin Baker eras. While we could understand skipping the William Hartnell (too old and rare) and Sylvester McCoy (let's face it, too crap, even with Sophie Aldred's Ace) Doctors, what's going on with the complete lack of Peter Davison?

Don't let that scare you away from looking at what's available, though; in addition to relative rarities like Terror Of The Autons and The Krotons, stories like The Ark In Space and especially The Three Doctors are well worth investigating.

(While you're there, why not pick up the free first episode of Primeval, in case you missed it last week?)

Doctor Who: The Classic Series [iTunes] (Via)

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<![CDATA[NBC's 'Heroes' Tops List Of Most Pirated Shows]]> NBC earns the distinction of having their show Heroes being the most pirated television show across the Web. Good for them, because it means people really want to see this thing. It's not like sites are putting together pirate DVDs of Heroes episodes and selling them willy-nilly on street corners. Well, at least here in Los Angeles they're not. I checked. One of the reasons that Heroes (and other NBC shows) shot to the top of this list is that NBC decided to sever their relationship with iTunes last year, meaning you couldn't zap these over to your iPod at $1.99 a pop.

Amazon's "Unbox" program offers Heroes episodes but they don't work on the iPod. So you've got millions of people out there who want Heroes and Battlestar Galactica for their expensive little toys, and have to turn to BitTorrent to get it. Don't blame us, NBC. We're not going into the stores and stealing these off the shelves.

If they offered up formats that worked on iPods and other popular players at a nominal price (no one was really bitching that loudly about a buck ninety-nine), then the network would be able to reclaim some of this revenue stream. But if you keep using Windows-only video files and denying a large portion of your audience the goods, then yes, they'll find a way to get it.

'Heroes' tops the list of most pirated shows of 2007 [TV Squad]

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