Apple Expands iTunes Movies in the Cloud to Over 35 New Countries [Updated]

[wovel]

I know, I just mean every film in the list isn't available "on the cloud" even though they are available in HD in iTunes.

Edit: Some films are starting to show up! I hope more are updated.

That is why I pointed out the first film on your list was available from iTunes in the cloud. (At least in the US).

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All of you people sharing your movie lists is going to cost me money.

 

[shandyman]

Weirdly american pie 1 and the wedding are in the cloud for me but not 2. I got all 3 of them as digital copies...

Also, on the iPad, none are showing up in the videos app, just my music videos with cloud icons. Shouldn't movies show up there too?

 

[MythicFrost]

I bought Four Lions HD version (720p) earlier this year and Tell No One HD (720p) just 2 weeks ago on the UK iTunes. I can now delete them and redownload the 1080 versions - for free. Awesome.

Wish there was a way to pay to upgrade SD films to HD (but like the iTunes Plus upgrade system they had years ago).

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If you think you might want them again, you really should keep a copy locally. Movies often disappear from the store (rights/contracts expires etc) so it's very possible you may not ever be able to re-download it.

My emphasis. If you're watching Apple. THIS. THIS THIS. iTunes in the Cloud is showing that I have 135 movies, and that's not all of them yet either. I bought almost all of them before HD came to Australia, and I'm certainly not going to buy them again. Give me the option to pay the difference and I'd do it though!

 

[mrbyu]

Best regards from Hungary, my purchased music finally appears in iOS iTunes App too, so I don't have to sync with my Mac! .-) Thanks Apple!

 

[jontech]

Confirmed fox movies and MGM in the states. Also just purchased Avatar which is now 1080p and in the cloud

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For those having trouble seeing the movies in your account please give it a couple of days. Thier servers are crunching serious numbers right now

 

[Dingo Dave 69]

I live in the uk and have been waiting for this for a long time. Looks like most movies support it now too.

Weirdly though nearly all of my music videos are missing when I go to music. I changed my of recently and this happened. The originals are still there on my mac though. Anyone else had this problem?

Also with this change to movies in the cloud is this another step closer to a fully fledged apple tv being launched....it's moving in the right direction

 

[Tsuki415]

Is it me or are movies in the US store wayyyy too overpriced for purchase or even rental? Do they get a lot of rentals with Netflix around? It's like 4 dollars to watch something!

 

[maximusas]

Only Some Movies in UK

Hi, I am delight to see Movies in the Cloud have finally arrived in the UK. I have purchased several movies both on iTunes and Blu-ray with digital copies. However, of the countless movies I own, only 18 of them appear in he iCloud to stream on my Apple TV. Initially I though it was studio or digital copy related, but I have movies from Paramount, Studio Canal and Universal that are available for re-download and streaming.

I can confirm availability of the following:
iTunes Purchases appearing in iCloud:
Leon
Almost Famous
Lesbian Vampire Killers
Man on Wire
Modern Times
W
The Others

Digital copies with Blu-rays appearing in iCloud:
Harry Potter 6, 7.1 and 7.2
Star Trek
Watchmen
Prince of Persia
Paul
Tin Tin
Blues Brothers

Purchased Movies (Digital copies) not appearing in iCloud:
Captain America
Cowboys and Aliens
Fast Five
Harry Potter 5
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Sucker Punch
Super 8
Thor
X Men First Class

 

[Jamie0003]

Don't you still have to download your purchases before you can also stream them? If not that would be really useful. 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.

You can buy it and then stream them one by one as you watch them, which is much easier, and no storing them, it's all cached on the Apple TV.

 

[Ashwee]

To show my support of this I purchased Avatar HD for £13.99, amazing quality, will be buying movies from my Apple TV from now on.

 

[NewAnger]

Don't forget to buy movies in HD as soon as you can. One of the movies I had on my wish list is no longer for sale in HD, only SD. It was one that just became available in the cloud. I hate movie studios.

 

[Tezcatlipoca]

You can download UV movies to the iPad for offline watching via the Flixster app.

Ah, cheers for confirming that

 

[dashiel]

UV is a different story. It is basically a cloud based locker for your DRM. So if Apple joins the UV consortium, one could enjoy his Disc-to-digital copies of his DVDs he redeemed at Walmart straight from iTunes in the Cloud. Pretty powerful. As big players like Google and Amazon will hopefully join the party, the use of UV enabled stores will gain momentum and iTunes will find itself very isolated and will eventually join the UV consortium to maintain and grow its market share.

I know what UltraViolet is that’s what I was commenting on. It has largely failed because it’s not consumer friendly. Consumers had to create account for UltraViolet and register their devices and another account for each studio since UV isn’t a cloud storage locker, but a repository for DRM. Worse still it failed early on with customers unable to access their content and the studios had to hand out iTunes/Windows Media coupons to fulfill their promise (http://www.digital-digest.com/news-...es-Users-iTunes-Vouchers-As-Compensation.html). Also check the fine print, the digital copy you get with a disc is only guaranteed for a year (http://www.uvvu.com/uv-offer-details.php) after which time the studio is within their legal right to charge you.

As I said UltraViolet will limp along for a few more years, but will eventually be mothballed like every other studio/record label attempt to protect their interests.

I wish that was true for all movies. I bought American Wedding in April. It was in the cloud. iTunes no longer has it for sale and it has been removed from the cloud.

Thanks for the heads up, that is incredibly frustrating and I wonder if it’s legal, though perhaps it was a glitch as it appears to be available again.

 

[Rigby]

BTW, the new Jaws Blu-ray comes with an iTunes digital copy in HD (which has a whopping 4.5GB). As far as I know this is the first feature film to do so. And it includes a UV copy too.