I have over 16 TB of storage. I am ready for 4K movies.
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4K iTunes Content Limited to Streaming Only, No Downloads
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This doesn’t even matter to me anymore because I decided to stop “buying” from iTunes awhile ago, if you can even call it buying. To me when you buy something, you’ve paid the fair/agreed price for the item, and you should own and do whatever you want with the item in the privacy of your own life (not re-distributing copies of the content but allowing selling or giving away of your original copy). Not to mention, I don’t prefer the compression quality of digital download movies.
But even if I could overlook all that, I definitely could not overlook not having possession of the item I purchased. Having to depend on available reliable fast internet (which you have to pay for continuously or else no more access to the thing you bought), the seller’s servers, and the taking up of huge amounts of bandwidth, EVERY TIME I want to watch the thing I BOUGHT—well that’s not buying.
The only way this could be even remotely acceptable is if the price of streaming was substantially lower than the price of actual buying (downloading). It would have to be the same price as renting twice, $8-$10, because that’s really more accurately what you’re doing at this point.
But even if I could overlook all that, I definitely could not overlook not having possession of the item I purchased. Having to depend on available reliable fast internet (which you have to pay for continuously or else no more access to the thing you bought), the seller’s servers, and the taking up of huge amounts of bandwidth, EVERY TIME I want to watch the thing I BOUGHT—well that’s not buying.
The only way this could be even remotely acceptable is if the price of streaming was substantially lower than the price of actual buying (downloading). It would have to be the same price as renting twice, $8-$10, because that’s really more accurately what you’re doing at this point.
Download the movie and you won't need a lot of bandwidth each time you want to watch the movie or t.v. show.
I am not sure why anyone is complaining about storage space - I have several 2-3TB drives connected to my iMac that contain my current content. Streaming is a nightmare for me I often watch movies and fall asleep watching them -I am now going to stream the movie multiple times which eats into my monthly download limit. This is not good. A bit like not being able to watch the Ultimate Edition of BVS unless connected to the internet - I soon solved that problem.
No on the 7. The display can only do 720 (well, 750) or 1080 anyway, depending on phone size. So 4K wouldn’t even be noticeable. Some of my movies show up as 4K on my iPad when I look at their info on the iTunes Store, however.
Ugh. Why won’t they just go ahead and release a 65” iPad with 4K display that I can hang on my wall.
Well their is some reason, If it's storage issue, add a larger SSD, if it's a IP deal, come clean and communicate with us.
Why? I can download 25Gb+ really quickly.I don’t even know how to respond to this.
Store the movie (other provider beside iTunes) on an external drive and you will have it anytime you want to watch it.
To get it at the price Apple wanted, they probably had to go this route. Otherwise, the cost would be $10 - $15 more a movie.
It’s the Art of the Deal. Apple gets to market 4K for the price of HD a clear half truth. We get to pay a premium and Hollywood gets shaft paying customers.
This is why I try to find movies from smaller studios rather than the big guys. Most of the time these movies are just as good or better than the one the big guys films are and they are sold at half the price.
I will look elsewhere to download 4K movies. Maybe in a year, I will be able to rip my own 4K movies to stream to the AppleTV.
Apple encodes at a higher bitrate. Netflix 4k only uses about 15megs at full quality but looks crappier.
Great! In an era when ISPs are trying to bring datacaps to home internet and the FCC wants to lower the definition of broadband from 25MB to 10MB, we get this.
Slow internet can’t stream and capped means you get to pay extra to stream the content you own if you watch the movie twice (which is kind of the point of buying stead of renting).
Yes, it sounds like studio licensing nonsense and no I do not like it one bit.
Slow internet can’t stream and capped means you get to pay extra to stream the content you own if you watch the movie twice (which is kind of the point of buying stead of renting).
Yes, it sounds like studio licensing nonsense and no I do not like it one bit.
Ok I agree, I’m for downloading. I was confused because you said I should download, when this thread is about iTunes not offering downloads. It would have helped if you mentioned you were talking about another provider...
...customers who have had their previously-purchased iTunes movies upgraded from HD to 4K at no cost can stream those movies in 4K, but can only download HD versions. Newly purchased content is also restricted from download...
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I'll bet it's not as crappy as Amazon or Hoopla! Bam!
As was mentioned to you in the previous thread, Google updating the ATV app has nothing to do with not being able to view 4K Youtube. 4K Youtube uses the VP9 codec. Apple does not support the VP9 codec. So either Google would have to pony up a huge amount of money to pay royalties to HEVC Advance or Apple would have to support the VP9 codec. The likelihood of either of those happening is pretty slim without some miracle. So probably for the foreseeable future, there will be no 4K Youtube on the ATV.
Please stop with the app update claim. It's immaterial.
Stupid Apple. I have a 1GB internet connection and downloading/storing movies is easy. With this I’d rather just purchase a 4K disc and watch the movie in its best resolution. I hate that Apple will determine the resolution on the fly for streaming. I’d rather download if and guarantee 4K.