Like many here do, I rip them to a server that runs Plex. I can then watch them on any one of my devices, including when I'm not at home.
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Anyone all in on itunes movies and tv shows
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Like many here do, I rip them to a server that runs Plex. I can then watch them on any one of my devices, including when I'm not at home.
Haha oh dear. I'm in the UK as you are and oh man, the whole of this country and its Govt is run on illegal behaviour at the moment! A guy watching a film in his own home is not quite as bad as the things that are going on around us! Chill man!
How cynical of you
I use Kodi as a front end for playback of my 4K movies. I do stream but only from Netflix and iTunes on my 4K Apple TV.
Good question - I download my favourite 10 - 15 iTunes films to my MacBook and sync those to my iPhone X. I download directly to my iPhone X only films that have DOLBY VISION / HDR.
All of the other films, i've downloaded to my MacBook just once in 1080p and using TimeMachine backed them up to my LaCie hard drive which is very reliable. I then remove the download from my MacBook using the 'info' menu on the film.
This works for me. I also write down the date that i was backed up so that I can find it easily in TimeMachine if I need to. Luckily, I havn't needed to use this. Just a precaution.
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How cynical of you
I use Kodi as a front end for playback of my 4K movies. I do stream but only from Netflix and iTunes on my 4K Apple TV.
Not cynical - it's so obvious to see right now! You'd have to be very silly not to see that. I'm out of the UK 8 months of the year, so I really notice things when I return!
Anyway, back to movie talk
I usually buy from iTunes, but sometimes from VUDU and Amazon too. I prefer watching things on iTunes, though. More 4K content and almost always more special features.
They should definitely warn people about this removal thing. I thought iCloud was a backup service for them. Whenever people talk to me about Netflix, I always say I prefer to buy them on iTunes or wherever because it’s in my library for life without having to pay every month to suddenly lose it.
I had to transfer a family member’s account to my Mac as their HDD was failing. As a result of that, I stored everything from iTunes (not music) in the cloud. Friends series 1-10 in HD takes up a lot of disk space! I Have more space available now, so hopefully I can download them to my Mac again. If they had been “modified” or removed & were not available to download again, then I would have been absolutely fuming!
Either store a copy in the users iCloud account or tell them to backup when they download it. Having annoying to read T&C and all that should not cover them for this. Or people should get told to backup before it gets removed from the store. Or, the distributors/producers/whoever shouldn’t remove them from the store haha.
Also: what if someone only owns an ATV, iPad & iPhone. They can’t backup, can they?
I had to transfer a family member’s account to my Mac as their HDD was failing. As a result of that, I stored everything from iTunes (not music) in the cloud. Friends series 1-10 in HD takes up a lot of disk space! I Have more space available now, so hopefully I can download them to my Mac again. If they had been “modified” or removed & were not available to download again, then I would have been absolutely fuming!
Either store a copy in the users iCloud account or tell them to backup when they download it. Having annoying to read T&C and all that should not cover them for this. Or people should get told to backup before it gets removed from the store. Or, the distributors/producers/whoever shouldn’t remove them from the store haha.
Also: what if someone only owns an ATV, iPad & iPhone. They can’t backup, can they?
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I'm mostly AppleTV. I just have to make myself wait to rent movies instead of buying them. There are very few movies that I watch more than once.
I like itunes for a possibility to buy music, that`s what I do ) I bought some music by Queen last week, like it really really much!!!
The Apple TV is a streaming device, you can't "back it up" but you can download all your purchases to your media library on your computer, then stream them locally to the AppleTV. That's what I do, with about 1.5 TB of media on a Mac Mini that is dedicated as an iTunes server (most of my library is from DVD's that I ripped myself, plus a couple dozen iTunes purchases). Disks are cheap, and I want to local copies of evertything I own. My library is backed up nightly to another disk and continuously backed up to the cloud with Backblaze.
You can store media directly on your iPad or iPhone, space permitting. You can also back up these devices locally, either through iTunes or third party programs.
I meant if someone doesn’t own a computer at all. iTunes backups rely on one owning a computer (Mac or pc) as well. If it’s not a backup service (iTunes in the cloud), then that person is screwed if they don’t backup their bought tv shows and films
Absolutely and of course with Tim Cook plugging the iPa as a replacement for a computer, backing up is very limited. However, on the plus side, the majority of movies remain on the Apple servers even when removed from the iTunes store. To be clear though, Emails from Apple do recommend backing up the movie.
As you mentioned, I have many friends who do not own computers and either 1. Simply do everything on their iPhones or 2. Older people that I know who had old Windows computers located in the spare bedroom of their homes for the occasional internet shopping etc have replaced these things with iPads and have never looked back - they simply love them!
Personally, due to running out of space on my portable backup hard drive, I only back up films that I truly love. Some films that i've bought from iTunes, i've only wanted to watch once or twice at the most - a few, maybe five, I never tire of and watch 100+ times - these few are kept downloaded on my MacBook at all times and synced to my iPhone for journeys.
Well, then I guess you just have to take your chances and hope for the best. What if someone's house burns down and they don't have insurance at all?
Free upgrade, (hardware limiting I don't need 4K TV) yes.. I'm set for life
Gimmie some popcorn and i'll park my keister for a good flick.
For buying, definitely Apple - unlimited download of film plus 4K Dolby Vision & Atmos options, Apple's brilliant compression methods etc and works so easy across Apple platforms. With Amazon, if you look at the small print, you can only download your film purchase a maximum of two times ONLY! Plus they mention that they have no control of films 'vanishing'.
My experience here in Europe has proved that Vimeo and iTunes are the places for purchasing film.
Amazon Prime is worth buying whenever they have their yearly '£59' offer. Really can't go wrong with that and they have plenty of film to stream.
Again, Netflix for me has been great for foreign film (that i've then bought on iTunes) and nutrition documentaries along with the occasional film. Can't comment on the TV box sets as I don't watch TV in that respect.