OK. I know people who had their favourit albums first on casette, then on CD, now they buy DSD files with the same music. Just to hear the "better taste" of the song. It can easily apply to movies if those movies bring them good (positive) emotions.
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Apple Wants to Sell 4K Movies for $20 in iTunes, While Film Studios Want $25 to $30
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You are absolutely incorrect about this. Before the days of Spotify/Apple Music I never bought songs a la carte. It made no sense because of the amount of songs I would listen to or want on the fly. I just downloaded them. But when the price for unlimited streaming hit $9.99, or $4.99 with deals, it no longer became worth my time to search around for the best download copy. I could have the song I wanted no matter where I was, anytime I felt like hearing it. The price was worth it and now I subscribe.
With movies, there's absolutely no way in Hell I would even think about paying today's prices. I would need to spend $10,000+ on movies. No one in their right mind is going to do this. If a company came around that could do Spotify for movies (I don't count Netflix in this really, because they have a shrinking selection of films and are now focused on making new Orange is the new Black episodes), I would subscribe. Maybe $14.99 a month would be fair for this. That would make the work of finding a good quality copy, cataloging them, etc. no longer worth it to me.
I think Netflix and Spotify change the field a lot. I hardly know of anyone who is still torrenting music. Way too much effort if you can get it for 5€ a month.
I do feel like going to the movies is overpriced already. But the way it seems like it might be cheaper to buy a beer, popcorn and a ticket at a theater rather than watching something legally at home
Fine. Then be sure if I buy the digital copy to ALSO include a DVD to add to my collection.
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Wow, I'd call that a conditional thief. Basically, "hit MY acceptable price or I'll just steal it."
People robustly buy movies for more than $20 and $30 now. They have for years. Perhaps "no one" amounts to just you and your friends but there are plenty of movie sales at >$20.
Furthermore, if we want to give ourselves the power to decide fair pricing, I don't think about $1000 for the next iPhone is fair. I think it should be- oh say- $100. Since I can't see Apple pricing their product at what I consider fair, perhaps I should just go steal the iPhone too?
See how that works? Just because a person can more easily steal music or a movie, doesn't make it a lessor theft. There are lots of people to be paid with the money made by selling iPhones. And there are lots of people to be paid with the money made by selling movies. One group of people is no more deserving of getting their price than another. If you can't value something at the price asked, don't buy it. But stealing it isn't accomplishing anything positive for everyone involved beyond you.
I hope however you make your living is not in an industry where it's as easy to steal what you produce. If you happen to be in that industry and eventually your job is lost to such thievery, I hope you completely understand that the thieves just decided that your output was not fairly priced... and stole it rather than paying for it.
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This is probably a wild dream, but I hope that if some of the movies I have already bought in iTunes come out in 4K options, it would be amazing if iTunes gave you an option to upgrade from the HD version you had already purchased.
Like I said, it's a wild dream.
Like I said, it's a wild dream.
Yep, I did, 3 years ago when the spec came out.
Now, do you believe Apple's 1-2gig h.265 files have comparable quality to a 100 gig UHD blu ray at 4k? Seriously?
And have you heard of dolby digital 5.1 and 7.1? The sound files alone are a heck of a lot bigger than Apple's entire video file.
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And what do you know? Spotifys business model is completely unsustainable which is why they've yet to make even $1 in profit and would have gone out of business this year if they didn't get another round of funding.
And Netflix? How's that working out with all the access to other people's content? Notice their dropping that more to add their own content.
And Netflix? How's that working out with all the access to other people's content? Notice their dropping that more to add their own content.
It’s complex for me. I don’t mind changing discs, there’s something to browsing through a physical library and putting a disc in that reminds me of records in my childhood. But yeah Netflix covers most stuff for me too. My process is if I know I’m going to really like a film I’ll skip the cinema release and just get it on Blu-ray (can’t stand it when people talk during films, heh), or if I do get dragged to the cinema and I really love the film then I’ll get it on Blu-ray too. But that’s only like 4 or 5 films a year at this point.
Now that PLEX has cloud support it’s just become THE media service for me. I love being able to access anything from my huge library of films and TV shows anywhere in the world on any device (so long that it has plex at least!). and personally I think that’s what Apple need to be competing against, not just selling films and storing them online, but to also host existing libraries much like they do with their iTunes cloud/match service.
Besides, it is not like the RAM upgrades or drive upgrade from Dell are SO MUCH BETTER.
I don't believe that's an apples to apples comparison. Steam does NOT offer any of their games in physical media (they sell Steam boxes, and their own controllers). Games in digital format is all they have. AFAIK, different business model, where they want to drive traffic to their portal?
The one strike against some discs vs. the likes of Netflix is for the latter, you load up the movie and it starts. For the former, you have to sit through up to 10 minutes of FBI warnings and movie/TV show previews.
I guess I feel entitled ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Haha “get caught”. Perhaps in a world with no such thing as VPNs and proxy servers
The chances are when we die, other people aren't interested in getting other peoples films on DVD/Blu Ray. Seriously, most people care about memories, travels etc. I wouldn't be interested in getting someones old DVDs or video tapes
I would find it a bit creepy. Not as creepy as using old clothes when someone passes away.
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I agree. I wish the Anime I watch was on ANY form of digital distribution. Discs are too much of a hassle.
Yup. Hate that part of it but at least the rips you can make won’t have them. I’ve disabled the Blu-ray player “app” from being able to connect to the internet, because some discs load up new, streaming content on them. I really hope Netflix never sell advertising space before your content starts up. I know there are TV firmware’s that show adverts so there must be a lot of ad money involved.
I like that the Apple TV has the ability to play 4K content if we desire it. The last Apple TV model 'felt' gimped since it was left out. Also having options are good for everyone. Apple TV++
Of course, to sell this device, you need 4K content available. Can Apple sell this content for the premium price of $30? Amazon is selling 4K blue ray for around $25 for new releases it seems. Its important to get their digital pricing right.
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I am with you here. I have over 300 movies on iTunes and I will never go back to physical disks.
There's so much wrong with this I don't even know where to begin. It's not up to you to determine what the right price is. The market dictates that. And it certainly doesn’t give you the right to steal it because you think the price is too high.
And how useful will that Blu Ray be in 40/80+ years? It might be "nice" to get some DVDs and Blu Rays from people who passed away, but they will not last forever. I do not know why people think that they will. A Blu Ray player in 2090 will be CRAZY expensive!
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It has nothing to do with age.
I did post a link to a 4 year old comment, but only because there are relevant replies within the current year, the current month even. I wouldn't expect everyone to read that far down, though.
For me, I have no problem with owning the right to download or stream digital content when I want to, so long as when I buy it, at any future point in time, I will be able to exercise that right to access that same content. We aren't completely there with digital content "ownership". That is the reason many feel the need to "own" a copy they feel they can control better than the risks of losing the ability to download or stream content they purchased.
Um, you still have access to it when studios pulls the content. I still have one episode from Human Target Season 2 where you can't even get DVDs for it! It is no longer in the iTunes Store but I still have it in my list.
Same with Amazon. I bought a few more episodes of Human Target Season 2. I can still watch them. The ones I did not buy show up as not available.
Maybe it is unique to a studio or something.
Deadpool was pulled from Steam some time ago. My friend was still able to download it and play it since he purchased it when it was available.
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