Two more fresh updates available on Software Update, which show up after you update Quicktime to yesterday’s 7.5 release.

One is iDVD 7.0.2, a 21.9mb download on Leopard 10.5.3. (Your mileage could vary.) Apple’s ever-helpful notes tell us what this update is for:

This update supports general compatibility issues, improves overall stability, and addresses a number of other minor issues.”

The other one is iMovie 7.1.2, a 19.3mb download. Apple also talks about this one:

This update supports general compatibility issues, improves overall stability, and addresses a number of other minor issues.”

Gee, thanks for the info.

Video-on-Demand from the Apple site here. Quicktime required.

UPDATE: Now available as a free 1.18gb video podcast download from the iTunes Store.

The iTunes Store has just begun selling shows from cable company HBO, starting off with episodes from six shows: The Wire, Flight of The Conchords, Rome, The Sopranos, Deadwood and Sex & The City.

Most shows sell for $1.99 an episode like episodes from other sources, but in a departure from the norm, iTunes is  instituting variable pricing on the HBO shows, asking a dollar extra for episodes of Rome, Deadwood and The Sopranos, which is a first for the US iTunes market.

Previously iTunes UK started selling NBC shows with variable pricing as well. Along with the HBO precedent, this is a sign that Apple might be selling NBC shows on iTunes once more, since the pricing issue was one of the bones of contention involved in the Apple-NBC split earlier.

If you’re the type who really needs to do everything you can to your gear, here’s something you can do to your jailbroken iPhone - add video wallpaper.

A group of developers called Skrew created an app called vWallpaper, or Video Wallpaper for the the iPhone, which changes your regular pic into a running video. (Hope the developer’s name is all it is - this being an Alpha version, we don’t really know what it could do to your iPhone, so be warned). There are almost a couple of dozen of video wallpapers you can download from within the app.

All you need do is add http://repo.sc/jtizzle to your Installer source list and then check out vWallpaper from the Install/Recent Packages tab. If it’s not there look under the Multimedia category under Install.

Video (complete with totally inappropriate music) of how it looks over here.

The Doodler’s favorite podcast - Buzz Out Loud - has morphed into a vidcast for real. Unlike the live Ustream feeds I wrote about before, this one’s a full-bore video, complete with a multi-camera setup and a director!

Other than that, nothing’s changed much as far as content and execution are concerned. Except for the fact that now hosts Tom Merritt, Molly Wood and Jason Howell now have to worry about what to wear and how to look when they do the show. (Molly’s made up! And accessorized too!) And to be mindful of how to act since they’re on cam now.

At least you can now see them as they do the show. Tom and Molly look and act they way they normally do on their other video stuff, but producer  Jason seems a bit awkward. (For some reason, I’ve always thought of him as looking like actor Jason Segel from How I Met Your Mom.) You can also see their hardware prefs - in front of Jason is a Thinkpad, Molly a Dell (?), and Tom a MacBook Pro (and there goes your Mac connect, haha).

It’s not yet on iTunes, but you can catch the first BOL Video on CNET TV here, for streaming or for download.