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Apple Celebrates 10 Years of iTunes Movies With $10 Movie Bundles

It beggars belief, especially with a company as savvy as Apple. Why isn't this a worldwide sale?

I get my films on bluray, or older films on DVD if they're super cheap. There's a lot of impulse buying when it comes to them. So because of the marketing of this, because of the lack of worldwide availability, one does feel the need to just avoid them for a time and get them from other places/methods.
 
friedmud said:
Apple does lots of promotions all over the world. Get over it.
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Sorry to say, but being a non-US Apple customer really sucks. We pay much more for their hardware and only get a fraction of their services. Admittedly parts of that are not caused by Apple, but by some copyright proprietors. On the other hand it doesn't really look like if Apple would care about that. Other companies like Google or Amazon are much better in worldwide services and in distributing comparable products everywhere.
 
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Piggie said:
It's funny isn't it.
Despite years of buying films on BETA and VHS, a few LazerDiscs, then a resonable collection of DVD's and a couple of BluRays.
After all this time I've come to realize, it's mostly been a waste of time as re-watching the same film multiple times is something I THOUGHT I would do, rather than actually do.

I like the IDEA of being able to watch my movies again and again, but reality did not match what I thought, and I stil have things I bought, sealed in plastic.

Having Amazon Prime and Netflix, AND whatever I can find on terrestrial TV or the internet in general, the concept of paying money to own a single title now feels crazy to me.
I see a film I've watched on Amazon for example, and that if I did not have a PRIME account it would cost me £8 UK Pounds to watch. Not in a million years would I do that now.

£1 would be more than enough to stream a single film just once for me to watch these days.

If you have children, then I can understand you wanting Disney/cartoon collections as they love to re-watch those, and it may just be me or my age!, but all this buying movies these days with so much out there, and especially digital ownership you can't even sell on or give away to friends or charity when you are done with it, just seems an old past alien concept.

Stream what you want, when you want, that seems to be the obvious thing.
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feel exactly the same way..
the concept of "ownership" of most things isn't making sense much nowadays.
 
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Piggie said:
It's funny isn't it.
Despite years of buying films on BETA and VHS, a few LazerDiscs, then a resonable collection of DVD's and a couple of BluRays.
After all this time I've come to realize, it's mostly been a waste of time as re-watching the same film multiple times is something I THOUGHT I would do, rather than actually do.

I like the IDEA of being able to watch my movies again and again, but reality did not match what I thought, and I stil have things I bought, sealed in plastic.

Having Amazon Prime and Netflix, AND whatever I can find on terrestrial TV or the internet in general, the concept of paying money to own a single title now feels crazy to me.
I see a film I've watched on Amazon for example, and that if I did not have a PRIME account it would cost me £8 UK Pounds to watch. Not in a million years would I do that now.

£1 would be more than enough to stream a single film just once for me to watch these days.

If you have children, then I can understand you wanting Disney/cartoon collections as they love to re-watch those, and it may just be me or my age!, but all this buying movies these days with so much out there, and especially digital ownership you can't even sell on or give away to friends or charity when you are done with it, just seems an old past alien concept.

Stream what you want, when you want, that seems to be the obvious thing.
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I dunno. I should be the perfect market for this - tech savvy, lives in a 2 bedroom home so I don't have THAT much room to spare. But I get films on torrents (if the film studio is being silly and won't release in the UK) and optical media. I don't buy digitally despite having a Netflix account. Whyyyy? Well.

- Film licenses are notorious. I don't trust that a film will be on Netflix long enough for me to want to watch it, plus if I feel like watching in years to come then I can almost guarantee it won't be on. These places aren't known for archiving. But on the digital purchasing front I also don't trust that a license change means my content is forever safe. The safest way to future proof content is to either buy a low-quality version from iTunes and strip its DRM, or rip your own bluray and rip it, and keep it backed up.
- The price isn't that bad for me. I'm not a rich person but a £15-20 new release bluray once every month doesn't seem like a lot any more, not compared to how much I used to spend on them before streaming services were popular, but also back then standard headphones didn't cost £150, and our phones weren't £800, and my watch definitely wasn't £500 :D .
- The quality of all download and streaming services aren't that good. I bought a nice entertainment system to get the best image and sound.
- A personal one but I like having the content on show. I don't like having to rent stuff - I find that's happening everywhere though and most people are happy not owning anything. That's great for those you're renting from of course. Financially it makes sense for them to have a customer for life over a one-time purchase.

All in all I don't mind paying for it. A Netflix account and films I love on media that's going to be around for as long as they keep making the players/as long as mine keeps working! And full quality backed up versions playable over the NAS. That's alright by me.
 
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Loge said:
Fine until people retire, can no longer afford the subscriptions, and then realise they have all the time and nothing to watch or listen to.
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Very true, although frankly when I retire the LAST thing I plan to do is sit around watching movies.

One of these packs is actually of interest to me, for something of an ironic reason. Monuments Men and Captain Phillips are both examples of movies I picked up on RedBox and ripped to the computer so I could watch at my leisure, only to discover there were scenes in need of subtitles. I have yet to understand how to download a subtitle file and add it to an existing movie file, so I have yet to see those two movies. Sold.
 
Piggie said:
It's funny isn't it.
Despite years of buying films on BETA and VHS, a few LazerDiscs, then a resonable collection of DVD's and a couple of BluRays.
After all this time I've come to realize, it's mostly been a waste of time as re-watching the same film multiple times is something I THOUGHT I would do, rather than actually do.

I like the IDEA of being able to watch my movies again and again, but reality did not match what I thought, and I stil have things I bought, sealed in plastic.

Having Amazon Prime and Netflix, AND whatever I can find on terrestrial TV or the internet in general, the concept of paying money to own a single title now feels crazy to me.
I see a film I've watched on Amazon for example, and that if I did not have a PRIME account it would cost me £8 UK Pounds to watch. Not in a million years would I do that now.

£1 would be more than enough to stream a single film just once for me to watch these days.

If you have children, then I can understand you wanting Disney/cartoon collections as they love to re-watch those, and it may just be me or my age!, but all this buying movies these days with so much out there, and especially digital ownership you can't even sell on or give away to friends or charity when you are done with it, just seems an old past alien concept.

Stream what you want, when you want, that seems to be the obvious thing.
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I agree with this.

My moment realizing this was many years ago driving on the highway and seeing a billboard from Blockbuster Video (remember them?!). It said "How many times are you really going to watch that movie you bought anyway?"

I rarely bought DVDs after that hit home.

And I should listen to my own advice. I have the complete Breaking Bad box set in my basement...still unwatched after a couple of years.
 
I imagine distribution rights worldwide being tied up with lots of different parties is the reason this US only.
 
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acctman said:
Magic Mike (thrusting men), Sex in the City (Sex deprived women), 300 (hundreds of shirtless men) in the Warner Bros bundle OMG a suburban housewife's dream all for $10. Seriously this will sell.

Too bad you can pick 10 to create your own bundle from the mash-up of movies
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Doesn't have to be deprived - we can always enjoy looking!

Hmmm, I have the two MM. Need to check out the others!
 
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I travel a lot and so I like to have a few movies on my iPad to watch during a trip although lately, I'm into buying / watching foreign TV series.
 
friedmud said:
Yep. The US even gets this huge FREE concert from Apple every year! Oh wait, that's in London...

Well... at least we get that "Lucky Bag" thing here around the new year... What? Nope, I forgot, that's in Japan.

Apple does lots of promotions all over the world. Get over it.
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I'll wait for an example for Canada and a few more countries ... because that won't make it an aberration.
I thought so, too.
 
unfortunately it seems I already own the few movies in these bundles that I care to. But not bad bundles for $10 if you were on the lookout for even one or two of the movies in one of the bundles.
 
Piggie said:
It's funny isn't it.
Despite years of buying films on BETA and VHS, a few LazerDiscs, then a resonable collection of DVD's and a couple of BluRays.
After all this time I've come to realize, it's mostly been a waste of time as re-watching the same film multiple times is something I THOUGHT I would do, rather than actually do.
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I do tend to agree with you. I used to have a reasonable DVD collection and would even sit and watch some of the special features. That was before I had 3 children. Nowadays my wife and I get to sit down somewhere between 8.30 and 9 and once a week we might scour iTunes for a movie that we think we can get through before we fall asleep!

These bundles appeal to the 'bargain hunter' in me, but I've seen quite a few of them so I probably am not going to sit an re-watch them anytime soon.
 
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acctman said:
Magic Mike (thrusting men), Sex in the City (Sex deprived women), 300 (hundreds of shirtless men) in the Warner Bros bundle OMG a suburban housewife's dream all for $10. Seriously this will sell.

Too bad you can pick 10 to create your own bundle from the mash-up of movies
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Clearly you've never watched Sex and the City.
 
70 movies for $70? Are you nuts?

Bought 'em all. Won't watch some (Magic Mike) but I might have guests who will want to see them. And some of our favorites are in there.
 
springsup said:
Have you seen the regular iTunes movie prices? They don't really do good deals anywhere.
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Every single Friday they have a different $5 movie, some are pretty great; they also have regular $10 priced movies normally you'd find for $20 - pretty happy with iTunes pricing if you are somewhat patient
 
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