And just as I posted my last response... Amazon.com posted the Indiana Jones Bluray Collection for $39.99. Guess I'll have another four movies to convert. =)
Dang-- I missed this. It's back up to $65 today.
And just as I posted my last response... Amazon.com posted the Indiana Jones Bluray Collection for $39.99. Guess I'll have another four movies to convert. =)
Bought it on iTunes but have not watched it yet.
Watch Lifehacker.com for iTunes gift card discounts. I bought the Best Buy black friday $100 iTunes card for $80. I basically get everything 20% off on iTunes. Therefore, I paid $18 for the HD Dark Knight Rises.
No need for the disc, I don't have a blu-ray player and don't plan to buy one if I don't need to.
Not concerned about reselling the movie or willing it to anyone.
I got it for 18 bucks on blu ray with ultraviolet. Why is everyone obssessed with iTunes. I have gotten flixster to send me itunes copies of movies and they are sending me a iTunes copy of the new spiderman so i hope I can get them to send me a copy of Batman although it says it right on the back of the blu ray case NO ITUNES included so I might be out of luck on that
I signed up for Flixster/UV just to get my digital copy of Rises. Nothing worked and I will probably never bother with it again. I was just getting error messages and nothing ever showed up in either place. Since I already know how to rip and encode, I am not going to spend much time trying to figure it out but also won't put any value in UV digital copies in the future.
...is why I didn't buy it on Blu Ray. No iTunes digital copy? Forget it. And even if it did have it, it would probably be in SD.
I'm tired of ripping my own copies, and think the iTunes encodes look great. Maybe they aren't "quite" as good as the BR, but the ability to easily watch in HD on my apple tv, transfer it to iPad or iphone, and download it anywhere I am from the cloud, is enough reasons for me to go this route.
good thread.
I have a 2.5 year old son and a 10 month old daughter.
Also bluray is gonna be around for a while but a better thing will come along & replace it , your going to have those bluray movies collecting dust
Like I do with my DVD movies & VHS
Ugh. Personally, I'm all for digital downloads but I hate salesmen because their "expertise" is nothing but justification for a predetermined conclusion.
a bunch of made up excuses just to promote an iTunes sale over a blu ray while omitting all the added value of physical media over digital.
Bandwidth requirements. iTunes DRM. Inability to lend to family/friends. File quality etc.
Make a digital download half the cost of physical and ill throw away my BD drive, but for now iTunes is a cool but crippled experience.
And whats with this idea that you need to wait by your mailbox like a dog or going into a store to pick up a movie is some sort of humiliating experience? Not everyone fears physical movement.
You know why Apple no longer uses that mantra? Because it's no longer true. Apple makes great hardware but for the last few years their software and services have been mediocre at best (which is why their current restructuring is so exciting and necessary).