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Disappearing movies
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This is why it's BS...just checked UK store, no Farscape.
Thankfully I have them all on DVD.
I can still download it though and its still on my account. So something must be up with the OPs account.
Life isn't so simple. Sometimes, you can just get lucky. For example, I can stream/play "Eastern Promises" from my iTunes purchases.
However, if you search for Eastern Promises in the Apple TV app, you won't find it. Amusingly (if you're the kind of person who enjoys wearing barb wire under your shirt), you will find other movies featuring Viggo Mortensen listed when you do that search. This particular movie has been coming and going from the iTunes Store over a period of years.
I didn't get so lucky with other movies the got de-listed.
My thoughts exactly. I see this a lot really. And have reported the issue to Apple Support on numerous occasions. The issue comes in many forms. Such as searching for a movie you have bought in the past, especially if bought in a bundle, finding it, and it's got a price on it. As if you never bought it! Yet manually going through the movies you bought finds it. I am thinking this will help @LV426 find thier missing movie. Fingers crossed!
Where is Lilya 4 Ever when I manually scroll through my iTunes “purchases”? Where is Betty Blue? Where is Possession?
They‘ve gone to meet their maker, that’s where.
I downloaded quite a few old iTunes purchases in SD in the days when I could only get sub-megabit DSL at my rural home. If I stream them now in the Apple TV app, they are actually shown in HD. At one time, I was able to delete the original SD download and when I re-downloaded, I got the HD version. But that didn't work the last time I tried.
Anyway, my point is that SD purchases appear to actually stream in HD - or at least that seems to be the case with my own purchases.
I don't wish to make light of your situation, but that last line made me LOL.
OK, I've been researching this, and the truth of the matter is
A class action lawsuit against Apple in respect of this is in the courts.
I look forward to the outcome of this court case. I might get my money back.
- Apple has a licensing agreement with digital content owners (such as movie studios)
- The agreement allows Apple to sub-license the content when an Apple customer clicks a "Buy" button
- By clicking "Buy", the purchaser acquires that sub-license
- Apple is required to remove the digital content from the customer's "Purchases" folder when its license agreement with the content owner terminates
A class action lawsuit against Apple in respect of this is in the courts.
I look forward to the outcome of this court case. I might get my money back.
I almost completely stopped buying iTunes, and other digital media for this reason, and have been going back to physical media when I can.
It can happen with music and TV Shows as well.
Games also often disappear, and while it happens on iOS as well, it is much noticeable on tvOS, as many developers have dropped support for their tvOS version of apps, while still updating the iOS versions.
When tvOS first launched, I was really excited about the possibilities, investing in a lot of games and other apps. I noticed a few years ago that the tvOS version of apps stopped getting updates, and many were just pulled from the tvOS App Store.
RISK was one of the latest, and I had about $50 invested in that game between the initial cost and all the maps I purchased over the years.
It sucks, which is why I am moving away from digital content.
As someone who owns vast amounts of vinyl/tape/vhs/laserdisk/cd/hddvd/dvd/bluray, I have been trying not to get physical copies the past number of years, mostly due to space.
I only buy DVD's that are physically not available in iTunes, i.e. obscure/old/foreign titles.
I can see physical media fizzling out next few years.
Download every purchase.
I only buy DVD's that are physically not available in iTunes, i.e. obscure/old/foreign titles.
I can see physical media fizzling out next few years.
Download every purchase.
Well, that's convenient for you, isn't it.
How about just taking care of customers and ensure that the files can be streamed in perpetuity?
I’m not saying I’m overly happy with it but we all agreed to those terms and conditions(that nobody reads) upon setting up that Apple ID that says purchased content could be amended or removed at any time without prior notice and that it’s Apples recommendation that we download and store content for those very reasons.
The terms and conditions described above are inconsistent with the commonly understood meaning of the word “Buy” as shown on the iTunes Store. That is what the pending court case is about, and I strongly suspect (and hope) it won’t go Apple’s way.
The thing is with the likes of this court case is that for some unknown reason it’s always made out that it’s Apple that’s the bad guy in all this when in actual fact it’s the same across all platforms that sell digital media.
IMO it’s the studios that should also be taken to task on this as them that have overall control over their content.
It does make me laugh that Apples made out to be the bad guy when they’re the ones who pretty much said to the studios hold on if you won’t allow 4K downloads then you can’t charge more for 4K over HD and that upon a HD purchase it should be upgraded to 4K for free once it becomes available.
Hopefully more will be done to make our purchases actually ours, but somehow I get the feeling that all that will end up happening is the wording will change so it no longer says Buy.
Apple (and others) have behaved badly in my opinion. They should never have agreed to such licensing terms in the first place. All they had to do was say to content producers “We really mean it when our customers say they want to buy your stuff. If you’re not happy with that, don’t use us as a selling channel.”
Studios make billions selling via iTunes. The threat of losing that sales channel needs to be made clear. In the age of streaming, they can’t afford to lose iTunes.
I have seen posts with people complaining that movies they purchased have been removed from iTunes, and the same movie is added again, but they cannot stream it due to it being a different license for that movie.
Not sure if I explained it well, basically I mean a movie, such as Terminator (1984) was purchase by someone. Later Terminator (1984) gets removed from the iTunes Store, and then added back, but the anyone that purchased Terminator (1984) before cannot stream or download it do to licensing issues. If they want it, they are forced to buy it again.
I understand it, but just don't agree with it.
Not sure if I explained it well, basically I mean a movie, such as Terminator (1984) was purchase by someone. Later Terminator (1984) gets removed from the iTunes Store, and then added back, but the anyone that purchased Terminator (1984) before cannot stream or download it do to licensing issues. If they want it, they are forced to buy it again.
I understand it, but just don't agree with it.
From my experience that’s not how it works at all.
Case and point any movie by Miramax, pre October 2020 any Miramax movie purchased was under Lionsgate. ie: The Crow, Pulp Fiction, From Dusk Till Dawn etc.
Paramount Pictures has since gained the distribution rights to the entire Miramax catalogue and as such every movie has been removed and re-listed with the studio now showing as Miramax.
All previous purchases under Lionsgate are still available and playable in your library regardless of the store listing showing I don’t own it.
I’ve got a TV series that’s no longer available to buy at all in the store but is still very much available to play in my library.
Please stop using the word "buy". That's what the court case against Apple is about. You got lucky. But generally it doesn't mean "buy" at all, when movies can arbitrarily disappear from your library.
I've "bought" enough iTunes movies, and upgraded enough devices, for this to be a noticeable issue.
Well until there’s an actual outcome and they’re made to change the wording I will continue to use the word Buy ?Please stop using the word "buy". That's what the court case against Apple is about. You got lucky. But generally it doesn't mean "buy" at all, when movies can arbitrarily disappear from your library.
I've "bought" enough iTunes movies, and upgraded enough devices, for this to be a noticeable issue.
When I purchase it is mine to watch. I don't care about the licensing legalese. You disappear it I will resume usenet.
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Go into it eyes open on the T+C, never buy full price, for me it is a great service. I have had one drop to HD from 4k and it was bought at 4k, studios pulled the plug but I didn't pay any more for the 4k version. (edit, I have had loads get the bump form HD to 4k)
I tell a lie, I bought 1 full price cos I wanted to.
But looking at ite=unes the other day, I spied rental at £15 on a recent release
If you want a dead cert keeper or one you really want top drawer 4k, buy hard copy
I tell a lie, I bought 1 full price cos I wanted to.
But looking at ite=unes the other day, I spied rental at £15 on a recent release
If you want a dead cert keeper or one you really want top drawer 4k, buy hard copy
