Can you straight out buy Disney Movies off DMA ? and then get your Itunes/Amazon copy too ?
If so are they mostly the same price as the they would be on Itunes (around $19.99) ?
Do they have any vaulted movies available for purchase ?
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Blu-ray iTunes Digital Copies Now Redeemable in HD?
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Can you straight out buy Disney Movies off DMA ? and then get your Itunes/Amazon copy too ?
If so are they mostly the same price as the they would be on Itunes (around $19.99) ?
Do they have any vaulted movies available for purchase ?
Not sure that is true. I have redownloaded purchase from a US and UK account without problems. I just have to switch accounts; both cannot be active at the same time.
If you have a US code just open a US iTunes account.
That's interesting; when I try to redownload something from my US account it tells me that the computer is already associated with my NZ account and that I have to wait X days before I can switch accounts. I get the same message even when booting from a different installation of OS X.
Hmm. I regularly switch between a US/UK and Austrian account with no issues. I wonder if others have the same issue?
Looking at the app on the iPad, it has links to buy the movies in iTunes. Vaulted movies are not available for purchase, though they are added to your collection if you already own them. It also gave me a digital copy of Prince Caspian when I first signed up with the app/service, pulling the info that I owned the DVD from the Disney Movie Rewards website (at least I don't think I had a digital copy of it before, and if not it did at least upgrade it to HD).
I believe you also get bonus rewards points by buying through the iTunes links in the app.
I realize this is old, but I just bought a Puss In Boots 3D Blu-Ray (only went 3D last August) and it came with a digital "code" and disc and iTunes redeemed it, but gave me a crappy SD copy and it's not registered for streaming (i.e. worthless garbage as I can just rip/encode the Blu-Ray if all I want is a local copy). The 3D disc is dated 2013. I didn't realize digital copies on blu-rays discs sucked so much just 5 years ago.
I’m sure it already technically expired as well.
Disney upgraded all “disc” codes (aka XML) from SD to HD a few years back but have not done that in well over a year.
It did show up for streaming, after all (from AppleTV Gen2-4K), but not in my Mac's iTunes library as such. It's still just SD, though.
Puss in Boots is Dreamworks, right?
All of my older digital copies that were originally redeemed in SD changed over to HD, regardless of studio. I definitely know that I had Disney, Dreamworks and Fox titles that converted (Princess and the Frog, Turbo, and The Wolverine).
I think what you have to do is delete the file that has already downloaded (move it to trash) and then re-download by pressing the "cloud" button. As long as your iTunes is set to download the HD file (which I assume it to already be set at), you'll get the proper file.
I just tried that. Sadly, it didn't work. It's still just SD. Maybe it was a one time thing for the upgrade? I've already made my own local digital file (Handbrake), but an HD cloud streamer would be useful when at a relative's house or whatever.