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Apple Upgrading iTunes Disney Movie Purchases to 4K HDR
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Yes, mine is showing up as 4K now. Pretty much all of my Marvel/Disney/Star Wars content minus Thor 2 and Big Hero 6 are showing up in 4K.
My copy of Nightmare Before Christmas has not be auto upgraded to HD???
That’s a Disney product.
Its hard to tell exactly what’s happening. I had a couple of SD movies I’ve owned since before iTunes had HD movies. They definitely play in HD, but not HDR. Not sure how Apple decides what version to stream or allow me to download.
Maybe they gave people who bought when SD was the only option a freebie, but people who intentionally chose the SD version when the HD was also available. (Cheaper), I think that’s what I did 9 years ago with Nightmare Before Christmas.
Could be. Or, maybe it's just taking some time to roll out to everyone.
Have you tried actually streaming it from an Apple TV or the Apple TV app on a television?
I’m not sure that is true any more. On an iPad Pro if you go to TV in Settings there is a setting called Download Options. If you go to Wi-Fi you can choose High Quality and there is a note that says both settings include 4K and HDR where available. I haven’t checked on macOS yet.
Thank you Apple and Disney! Moves like this really help the viability of purchasing digital content. I have almost 800 iTunes movies and it's so nice to have them upgraded instead of the old days where you would at various points be faced with a tough decision of whether to live with your old format (along with the mess of hardware and cables to play them) or invest obscene amounts of money upgrading. I went through this with VHS/S-VHS > Laserdisc > DVD > HD-DVD > Blu-Ray and basically just gave up, it wasn't worth it anymore.
Because I now have some confidence in post-purchase improvements, I actually end up buying a lot more movies than I would on any physical format, which works out well for everyone. Add to that you have access to every movie you own at all times on every device, with no need to store or move physical media (not trivial with a large collection), and ease of finding content by searching/browsing. I can never go back to the old way, it's like going back to using a typewriter or something.
By the way, be patient with the upgrades, I've noticed with previous iTunes 4K/HDR upgrades, it sometimes takes a while for them to all propagate through the system, sometimes days, and sometimes they go back and forth (upgraded/not upgrade) a few times before settling down.
Because I now have some confidence in post-purchase improvements, I actually end up buying a lot more movies than I would on any physical format, which works out well for everyone. Add to that you have access to every movie you own at all times on every device, with no need to store or move physical media (not trivial with a large collection), and ease of finding content by searching/browsing. I can never go back to the old way, it's like going back to using a typewriter or something.
By the way, be patient with the upgrades, I've noticed with previous iTunes 4K/HDR upgrades, it sometimes takes a while for them to all propagate through the system, sometimes days, and sometimes they go back and forth (upgraded/not upgrade) a few times before settling down.
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Same here, and some movies that were previously in HD only show as SD in the TV App.
Same here, but many of the MA ones were 4K codes which showed up in iTunes as HD. Now most are UHD.