Apple yesterday opened the digital doors to their iTunes Music Store in Brazil, and will continue its Latin American expansion by reaching Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela. Apple also debuted the iTunes Match service in Brazil.

Two Apple-inspired documentaries are scheduled to be shown during the first week of the new year on CNBC. Save the date and set your DVRs to stun record, you won’t want to miss either. Welcome to Macintosh is a great documentary about the technology and products that have come from Apple over the years. MacHEADS is all about the Apple fanboys we love and the rest of the tech community loves to hate.

Some owners of the new MacBook and MacBook Pros have discovered something strange when you try to play some iTunes video content to an external display. If that display is not HDCP compliant, then iTunes will return an error saying that a connected display is not authorized to play protected movies.

While this may seem like a minor issue, consider if you plan on playing a purchased iTunes movie through a projector. Most projectors these days still feature a VGA input for connecting a computer. These users will now be unable to play content purchased from the iTunes Store.

With Apple’s recent changes to the App Store, I was honestly afraid that I wouldn’t be able to provide a long list of free apps and games for you to try out this weekend. If you’ve noticed, Apple removed the All Apps section the App Store, which provided users with a great way to see all of the newest apps to drop.

But thankfully, I was wrong. I still found a nice long list to clutter up your home screen.

Get this week’s list after the break.

When announcing iTunes Movie Rentals, Steve Jobs said to expect 100 High Definition, 5.1 Surround Sound titles available for rent by February. Although Apple has made this goal, they are really short in their goal of 1,000 standard definition titles. 396 short, to be exact. Although there are 197 HD titles, of which exactly 100 more »

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) admitted Wednesday that their study on illegal movie downloads had a serious flaw. In a 2005 study, the MPAA accused college students of being the cause of 44% of illegal movie downloads, mostly because of easy access to high bandwidth networks at the colleges. The MPAA used the more »

The iTunes UK store may not be the farthest behind in terms of content, but it is still behind the US store. We haven’t got movies at all yet – let alone movie rentals. Hopefully that will all change some time this year, when we receive the movie rental treatment. The lack of Apple TV sales in the UK was probably because of the lack of content from iTunes itself. Once the UK store receives movies – I’m sure sales will increase.

The UK store has recently been updated with some more video content including:

Many think that the iTunes Movie Rentals have too strict time limitations. You only get to watch your movie for 24 hours once you have started playing it. Clever hackers have developed a simple loop in Apple’s system, which allows you to rent movies, and keep them with plenty of time to watch them. The more »

Along with rumors of Fox partnering with Apple for movie rentals this morning, rumors of DVD copying have risen as well. Apple’s infamous DRM system, FairPlay, will be used to allow the copying of Fox DVDs to iTunes, iPods, iPhones, and AppleTVs. Although users have been able to copy DVDs and import them for a more »

While trying to report a problem in iTunes, Mac developer David Watanabe stumbled upon what could be the beginnings of movie rentals on iTunes. When browsing the reasons you could submit problems under, he discovered some unusual strings, and posted a screenshot of them on Flickr. Among them were: “DidNotReceiveMovie-Renjavascript:promptTag(“link”);talMovie,” “AccidentalPurchase-RentalMovie,” “ContentQuality-RentalMovie,” “DuplicatePurchase-RentalMovie,” “WrongVersion-RentalMovie,” “BadMetadata-RentalMovie” more »