A lot of mine are now showingwent from 1 to 16 in 2 hours.
Think digital copies are standard def only tho..... I have iTunes set to download 1080 but don't think that helps.
We just need the bump from 720 to 1080 on films now in the UK, seems silly that we can only get 1080 TV shows!
What really frustrates me is that when I look on Amazon I see one film after another (old and new) being released on BluRay but yet we have little or no 1080p HD films available to buy in the UK iTunes store.
I really want to start building a library of films but I don't want to buy the SD versions for £7 each only to find in a year or two that everything is now coming out in HD. I might as well just go back to buying BluRay disks again instead.
This is the main reason i'm excited for movies in the cloud, it's such a pain to have to buy movies in iTunes, wait for it to download then stream it.
Check the iTunes store now, most films i can see are available in 1080p to purchase (since earlier today).
Same reason many Fox etc aren't. Exclusive contracts with cable nets etc. these downloads fall under the definition of 'broadcast' under current contracts. It's also why some tv seasons and movies aren't on the storebit shocked that Disney films don't seem to be supported
We just need the bump from 720 to 1080 on films now in the UK, seems silly that we can only get 1080 TV shows!
Anything you purchase from Apple has free storage in iCloud and doesn't affect your limits.
They just need to hurry up and introduce an iTunes Match like service. Double the price of iTunes Match, insert your DVD collection, iTunes scans it and matches. Charge $1 to upgrade to HD from DVD.
Netflix is sadly at the mercy of the studios though. Try renting any of the Batman films and theyre all gone. Its somewhat true of iTunes, Amazon, et. al., where youll find some films go missing for months at a time (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt 1 for instance has been gone from all digital services for a year or so). The benefit to iTunes in the cloud is the ability to access that film even if its not currently available through iTunes. In other words if I buy Batman tonight and next month Warner Bros. pulls it from iTunes I can still access it via the cloud.
Woohoo, it's finally in Canada!
Now I can safely delete some movies that I'll probably never watch again, knowing I can re-download them if need be. :thumbup:
Not all movies are available in the cloud. My digital copy of Mission Impossible IV was however.
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You can download UV movies to the iPad for offline watching via the Flixster app.Am I wrong, or is it true that Ultraviolet is streaming *only* when using e.g. an iPad, no ability to download for later local playback? If so, then that sucks IMO. No use having purchased films on UV if you're restricted to streaming. What if you want to watch a film while on a plane or somewhere else where you don't have WiFi.
On an Apple TV you can simply stream them. On iTunes, you can do progressive download, i.e. start playback while the movie is downloading.Don't you still have to download your purchases before you can also stream them? If not that would be really useful.
TV shows have been available in the cloud for quite a while now (at least in the US, not sure about other countries).I've bought a load of TV Shows but it takes ages to download all the episodes and then it takes up so much space on my hard drive I had to buy a 1TB external hard drive just for my iTunes library. It would be so much easier if I didn't have to download the TV Shows in the first place and just streamed them instead.
Yep, I see some of my Fox movies appearing too.It seems that my Fox movies are now showing up in iCloud. Very happy here in the US.