iTunes is the Apple customer's download haven for media content, although apparently it's not for everyone. Indeed, a user at the Apple Support Forums found out the hard way when rented movie content downloaded from iTunes couldn't be transferred from PC to a fifth generation iPod classic.

"You can rent movies from iTunes and transfer to and watch them on your Mac or Windows computer, iPhone, iPod touch, iPod classic, or iPod Nano (3rd generation)," goes Apple's iTunes Movie Rentals FAQ. But as Apple forum user LdyAndrea pointed out, the fifth generation iPod classic should also be able to avail of the movie rental service as well:

Why on earth would they not make this service available to 5th Gen. iPods?? Mine is less than 6 months old!! If all of the other services are available for the 5th Generation Video iPods, why not rentals?? I have a tough time believing it would not be technically feasible.

Eliot Van Buskirk of the Listening Post believes it could be linked to hardware compatibility with the digital rights management measures placed on movie rentals. Now this is where we find our heads in a spin: Buskirk believes that Apple's plans to control movie rental schemes may require newer models with "secure digital clocks" so that DRM-protected playback can be processed by unit.

Such units would include the sixth generation iPod classic, the third generation iPod nano (now comes in pink), and the first generation iPod touch. But as official word on the matter hasn't been found yet, we'll have to wait for Apple to clear the foggy air.