I think something else might be going on. I can no longer find Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars on the iTunes Store yet I still have it in my purchased items. I also have some TV Shows that no longer show up in the store.
I can still download it though and its still on my account. So something must be up with the OPs account.This is why it's BS...just checked UK store, no Farscape.
Thankfully I have them all on DVD.
Life isn't so simple. Sometimes, you can just get lucky. For example, I can stream/play "Eastern Promises" from my iTunes purchases.I can still download it though and its still on my account. So something must be up with the OPs account.
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!Have you actually looked in your library rather than using search?
I’ve got a few things that have been removed from sale but are still available to watch in my library.
Where is Lilya 4 Ever when I manually scroll through my iTunes “purchases”? Where is Betty Blue? Where is Possession?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!
When you buy SD that’s all you get, with HD you at least get an upgrade to 4K when it becomes available
I don't wish to make light of your situation, but that last line made me LOL.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.
But it's now been deleted from the iTunes Store, so I can't watch it.
This always seems to happen with my favourite films. It's extremely annoying.
Apple shouldn't "sell" films if they can be arbitrarily removed. It's ridiculous.
Well, that's convenient for you, isn't it.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’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.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?
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.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 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.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.
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.”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.
From my experience that’s not how it works at all.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.
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 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.
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.