How many times do you really re-watch the same movie?
I have movies purchased in iTunes that I have watched dozens of times. One movie is probably near 100 times.
How many times do you really re-watch the same movie?
I can still get Blurays cheaper than iTunes. So, the only benefit is the convenience.
And convenience is what it's all about. Having bookcases filled with DVDs and Blurays is a real pain in the arsh, and they do you no good on road trips with the kids.
For one thing it allows you to download any of your movies/tv shows to any of your devices for convenience. And if you own an Apple TV 2/3, you can stream and buy those movies directly on it without having to download it to your computer first. They are then stored in your purchased tab on Apple TV, and can be streamed directly from there.
Ok, so is the fact that movie studios need to "approve" and probably get royalties from iTunes in the Cloud because you can stream those movies on an Apple TV?
Because otherwise legally I don't see why allowing you to re-download digital content your already paid for would require movie studios to make money again from you or Apple. I just assumed it was Apple being cheap on bandwidth.
No, it was existing deals with HBO that were holding up some movies from being in iCloud. HBO agreed to loosen the restrictions.
I know. I compare one movie I can watch as often as I want for $9.99 to a service where I can watch - realistically speaking - hundrets for the same price. I know I don't have the same right on the movie if I watch it on Netflix since I didn't purchase it. But, hey, how often will one watch it? My DVD collection is collecting dust and in most cases, that is how it is. I understand that you can rent it for less, but then, the service is not much different from Netflix anymore. Comparing Bang for the Buck, $9.99 is too high for a single piece of media. I think $4.99 for a new one and $3.99 for an older movie is fair. Just my opinion. Feel free to disagree.
But what does "movies being in iCloud" even mean? Is it just that they're available to stream from an Apple TV?
That and redownload to any device that accesses your account. Frankly, the ability to stream to my Apple TV is a killer deal for me. I don't have to store them on a shelf or a hard drive.
$4.99 for a new movie purchase is dreaming, bordering on unreasonable. You'd never find a deal half that good with physical media, and pay twice that in a theater.
That and redownload to any device that accesses your account. Frankly, the ability to stream to my Apple TV is a killer deal for me. I don't have to store them on a shelf or a hard drive.
Good news! Still, the prices are way too high. About $10 for a movie? That is $2 more than one month of Netflix.
I am looking forward to being able to upgrade my SD movies to HD + iTunes Extras
Oh, and I see I was beaten to iTunes Match for Movies.
Ah but I can dream.
I have never bought movies or TV shows from iTunes, but I might start..
How do iTunes compare with DVDs? I assume they have all the same features as the DVD, with features, director's commentaries, subtitles, languages etc?
Yea, except that WalMart has $5 movies which were blockbusters and also $7.50 movies which are newer. So, you get them under that price and you also have to see that these movies cost more in production because they are on a DVD (not even mentioning transportation, etc). Also, the $9.99 are not the ones in the movie theater at the same time. First, movies are in the big theaters, then in the 2nd tier smaller theaters and then they come to DVD/Blueray prime market and then they are available for streaming and online purchases. Sure, Netflix does usually not have them as long as they are still primary rentals.
I'm not sure I understand this whole iTunes in the Cloud thing.
What exactly is technically/legally different than before?
From what I understand, it just allows you to re-download the digital content you previously bought if you lose the files or don't want to manually sync them between your different devices.
Basically, it's just Apple being more generous with their bandwidth, but why does it deserve the "Cloud" buzzword and is treated like it's new feature?
If it allowed streaming and storage for personal files (like iTunes match) I could understand, but as it is they just let you re-download the content you already paid for, like many digital stores have allowed in the past without sticking the "Cloud" name next to it.
Please tell me if there's something I'm missing here.
I don't see the studios allowing an iTunes Match for Movies for a loooooong time. First off, they wouldn't see enough profit from allowing people to put their previous purchases on all their other devices. Even if Apple charged 2x the cost of iTunes Match for music for it that's still just a hair more than two HD movie purchases to make up the difference. They're going to focus on getting people to re-buy what they've already bought. Furthermore, there would need to be some kind of a standard digital marker placed in all DVD rentals, which seems like it'd be a massive effort, that iTunes would have to be trained to reject, or else people could just grab DVD from Netflix and add it to his/her account.
As the movie studios focus on preserving their dying business models, I just don't see them getting on board with that.
That and redownload to any device that accesses your account. Frankly, the ability to stream to my Apple TV is a killer deal for me. I don't have to store them on a shelf or a hard drive.
Not sure what youre trying to say about theater prices versus itunes prices.
Of course they're not In the theater at the same time as being on iTunes. But you'd pay $10 in the theater to see it once.
Expecting it to release for multi view ownership for less than that is unrealistic.
The only movies I've seen for $5 on disc are priced that way because they're either older movies, bad movies, or surplus copies they can't unload any other way.
Some of my Fox movies are still not available in the cloud, e.g. "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" and "Immortals" (both digital copies from the Blu-ray). Does anybody see these?