Take this with a grain of salt, but Pali Research analyst Richard Greenfield (“Don’t you know who I am? I’m Richard Greenfield!”) is saying that Apple will raise the price of iTunes movies to $15 in order to convince the big movie players to let them distribute video. The only way this could happen is if Apple started offering HD movies at this higher price — think of the outcry if you had to pay $15 for a standard definition copy of Walking Tall.
Analyst: Apple to raise iTunes movie prices [Electronista]