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Black Friday 2018: iTunes Discounts Holiday Classics and Over 150 4K Films to Under $10, New Disney Films for $15

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As it does every holiday season, Apple this week refreshed its iTunes Movies storefront with a selection of notable discounts, and the new sales are expected to stick around through Black Friday and Cyber Monday before the iTunes Movies store is updated again next Tuesday. There are a number of great movies to watch with your family over the holiday weekend, so check out some of the films in the lists below.

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4K - Under $10

One of the biggest sales on iTunes this Black Friday is for 4K HDR films that are all under $10 for a limited time. This list exceeds 150 movies and includes tons of different genres and franchises.
[*]Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
[*]The Spy Who Dumped Me
[*]Ocean's 8
[*]Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
[*]Deadpool 2
[*]Pacific Rim Uprising
[*]Sicario: Day of the Soldado
[*]Ready Player One
[*]A Quiet Place
[*]The Greatest Showman
[*]Eighth Grade
[*]Blockers
[*]Interstellar
[*]Spider-Man: Homecoming
[*]Rampage
[*]The Professional
[*]The Revenant
[*]The Darkest Minds
[*]Book Club
[*]Life of the Party
[*]Ex Machina
[*]Hidden Figures


[*]The Martian
[*]Edge of Tomorrow
[*]Rocky
[*]Apollo 13
[*]The Peanuts Movie
[*]The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
[*]The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
[*]The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
[*]Love, Simon
[*]Red Sparrow
[*]La La Land
[*]Superfly
[*]Tully
[*]Annihilation
[*]Game Night
[*]The Shape of Water
[*]Paddington 2
[*]Breaking In
[*]The Matrix
[*]The Big Lebowski
[*]E.T. The Extraterrestrial
Holiday Movies - Under $10
[*]The Family Stone
[*]Elf
[*]Home Alone
[*]Love Actually
[*]How the Grinch Stole Christmas
[*]A Christmas Story
[*]Scrooged
[*]Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
[*]Trading Places
[*]It's A Wonderful Life
[*]Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights
[*]Arthur Christmas[*]Bad Santa
[*]A Christmas Carol
[*]Christmas With the Kranks
[*]Frosty's Winter Wonderland
[*]The Holiday
[*]Jack Frost
[*]Mixed Nuts
[*]The Night Before
[*]Office Christmas Party
[*]Rise of the Guardians
[*]The Man Who Invented Christmas
[*]A Very Harold and Kumar ChristmasMovie Bundles - $9.99

Along with individual movie discounts, iTunes has a massive collection of film bundles for just $9.99 each.

Action and Adventure

[*]Rambo: The Complete Collection
[*]Taken 3-Pack Bundle
[*]Sherlock Holmes 2-Movie Bundle
[*]Charlie's Angels 2-Movie Bundle
[*]The Raid Double Feature
Comedy
[*]Wayne's World 2-Movie Collection
[*]The Breakfast Club + Sixteen Candles
[*]Ted Double Feature
[*]South Park + Team America: World Police
[*]Mean Girls + Clueless
[*]This Is the End + Pineapple Express
[*]Gremlins 1 & 2 Collection
Disney Movies - Under $15

Apple has also knocked down the prices of a few newly released Disney films -- and two classics -- to $14.99 and below.
[*]Incredibles 2
[*]Christopher Robin
[*]Ant-Man and the Wasp
[*]Black Panther
[*]Avengers: Infinity War
[*]Solo: A Star Wars Story
[*]Coco
[*]Thor: Ragnarok
[*]Star Wars: The Last Jedi
[*]A Wrinkle In Time
[*]Peter Pan
[*]Lady and the Tramp We're tracking all of the latest sales and bargains in our full Black Friday Roundup, so be sure to check it out as you shop online today.

Article Link: Black Friday 2018: iTunes Discounts Holiday Classics and Over 150 4K Films to Under $10, New Disney Films for $15
 
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The pricing in the US store is so expensive! As an example you can get home alone 1&2 in a bundle for £3.99 which which is about $5.20 which is half the price of home alone on its own..

It’s actually cheaper to buy the BR which has an actually physical cost to the studio.. so bizxare
 
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The Matrix Trilogy is only $29.99. Bought separately it would cost $46.
 
Some really good value deals here. I’ve recently got a 4K uhd hdr oled and axing 4K hdr blu ray play and have to say that the uhd blu ray version of certain films like marvel avengers Blows the streamed versions out the water.
So for big block blusters I’m preferring the uhd Blu-ray a. For other films I’m not so fussed over these iTunes deals seem excellent.
 
kkamann said:
The Matrix Trilogy is only $29.99. Bought separately it would cost $46.
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Few months ago it was $20 and if I’m not mistaken immediately after the first movie was released in 4K it dropped to $15 for the bundle.
 
johnnyturbouk said:
Some really good value deals here. I’ve recently got a 4K uhd hdr oled and axing 4K hdr blu ray play and have to say that the uhd blu ray version of certain films like marvel avengers Blows the streamed versions out the water.
So for big block blusters I’m preferring the uhd Blu-ray a. For other films I’m not so fussed over these iTunes deals seem excellent.
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Yep - same for sound. Dolby Atmos TrueHD (as you get on 4k Blurays) blows anything streamed out of the water. The streamed Dolby Atmos from Apple, Netflix and Amazon is good... but still lossy.

For anything big-budget, big-sound... I'm buying 4k Blurays.

Some of my favorite so far:

1. Ready Player One (movie is ok - but visuals and sound are amazing)
2. Jurassic World (same as RPO)
3. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2. Absolute BEAST of visual and sound-fx
 
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splogue said:
Yeah, but then I have to factor in storage and retrievability. I went down that road with DVDs and I'm completely done with physical media for everything at this point. Very freeing!
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Agree. But it's still ridiculous that pirated digised BD's offer better quality for free, versus paid official content that's rubbish in comparison.

Same for music, iTunes offer lossy only, pirates offer lossless rips with full set of artwork done at large size.

And the companies wonder why people pirate?
 
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kkamann said:
The Matrix Trilogy is only $29.99. Bought separately it would cost $46.
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But really you just need the first one.
[doublepost=1543122088][/doublepost]I bought the revenant for $4.99 and rented a quiet place for .99. If Matrix was $4.99 I would buy it but for $9.99 I gotta think about it.

Anyone find any other good 4K deals?
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splogue said:
Yeah, but then I have to factor in storage and retrievability. I went down that road with DVDs and I'm completely done with physical media for everything at this point. Very freeing!
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Yup, I’m done with physical media I’m all for digital.
 
itsmilo said:
So much cheaper to just get the Blu-ray
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Yup - plus then you’re not held hostage at the whims of studios deciding to pull their catalog back because they plan to launch Yet Another Streaming Service sometime in the next 24-48 months.

I buy the Blu-ray, immediately rip it and put the digital version on my “streaming server” (a 2006 MacBook Pro sitting on a shelf). The physical disc gets put away for safekeeping.
 
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MacRumors said:
Disney Movies - Under $15

Apple has also knocked down the prices of a few newly released Disney films -- and two classics -- to $14.99 and below.
[*]Incredibles 2
[*]Christopher Robin
[*]Ant-Man and the Wasp
[*]Black Panther
[*]Avengers: Infinity War
[*]Solo: A Star Wars Story
[*]Coco
[*]Thor: Ragnarok
[*]Star Wars: The Last Jedi
[*]A Wrinkle In Time
[*]Peter Pan
[*]Lady and the Tramp
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Yes but Disney does not offer any of those in 4K thru the iTunes Store, several of which have 4K Blu-ray releases and some even were filmed in actual, true 4K and graded with Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos (Black Panther and SW:TLJ).

I’m sick of Disney’s pissing match with Apple and Netflix. Disney needs to get off its high horse in regards to pricing. I’m sorry, but a 4K digital copy isn’t worth more than $20. Discs yes, because of the uncompressed quality and distribution costs.

$14.99 for a **HD** digital copy? Get the F out, Disney.

This is why I currently don’t buy Disney or Marvel digital movies, because I will not support this kind of business practice.
 
Westside guy said:
Yup - plus then you’re not held hostage at the whims of studios deciding to pull their catalog back because they plan to launch Yet Another Streaming Service sometime in the next 24-48 months.

I buy the Blu-ray, immediately rip it and put the digital version on my “streaming server” (a 2006 MacBook Pro sitting on a shelf). The physical disc gets put away for safekeeping.
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But let’s face it, the reality is that buying a Blu-ray requires a delivery charge or a car to go to the store. It requires time spent travelling, fuel and parking costs and potentially other costs. Ripping and encoding costs electricity and time again delaying the gratification of watching. And finally a Blu-ray takes longer to load and start up when playing, can be scratched or left behind or lost. A streaming account might be slightly more expensive and lossy quality but the advantages are numerous even at the higher price. You don’t have to run your own server to stream and download and if external to your property, you don’t have to rely on your upload speed and bandwidth to stream it.
 
entropyfl said:
The pricing in the US store is so expensive! As an example you can get home alone 1&2 in a bundle for £3.99 which which is about $5.20 which is half the price of home alone on its own..

It’s actually cheaper to buy the BR which has an actually physical cost to the studio.. so bizxare
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It’s not bizarre at all. Physical stock becomes a liability for distributors and retailers so they slash the price to get rid if it, even if it means making a loss. The digital price is more like the ‘real’ price.
 
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