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Disappearing movies
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Yes, if myAppleTV has no internet connection then no movies will play - including DRM-free DVD's that I ripped myself in the computers app with home sharing. Evidently it needs to "phone home" to Apple to allow any content to be played. In that situation however, I could still watch all my movies on my Mac and the work-around was to airplay them to the AppleTV.
But I have never lost internet for a full week, so maybe it would have eventually stopped working on the Mac too.
AirPlay doesn't work with DRM content from Macs. You can hear sound, but the picture will be all white and gray.
Yeah, I forgot to say that this was not only with DRM content, but content that was my own as well.
It was one of the things that pushed me to try Plex. Although, even Plex has to configured to allow local playback without internet, I learned that with a internet outage. Not sure why this stuff isn't the default.
OK, I was probably just watching my own ripped movies in that case... used to have a lot of internet outages in my rural location with sub-megabit DSL. But it's been very robust since Verizon brought FIOS here in 2017.
At the moment I'm pretty happy I stayed with iTunes instead of plex.
A reasonable expectation. I assume that the number of movies that are removed is so small that Apple decided not to include a warning that the studio may decide to remove it.
Out of curiosity has anyone ever asked for a refund for a movie that has been removed? If you paid for a product and don't have it seems a reasonable thing to ask.
I had a purchased Kindle book which disappeared from their store and my Kindle app. Called Amazon and they were able to retrieve it from one of their servers. Dunno if this is an option that Apple has for removed purchased movies.
I had a purchased Kindle book which disappeared from their store and my Kindle app. Called Amazon and they were able to retrieve it from one of their servers. Dunno if this is an option that Apple has for removed purchased movies.
I did, on one occasion. The iTunes representative would not entertain the idea, despite my protestations, and hung up the phone on me.
Same reason why neither The Abyss or True Lies hasn’t had a Blu-ray release.Sort of on topic.......
Does anyone know why James Cameron's The Abyss has NEVER been on iTunes.....?
I think you can get every other JC film.
This has bugged me for years.
Sort of on topic.......
Does anyone know why James Cameron's The Abyss has NEVER been on iTunes.....?
I think you can get every other JC film.
This has bugged me for years.
It's on my spreadsheet of movies that I do an iTunes check from time to time. From a list of more than 500, it's down to a dozen or so titles now. At any time in the past decade, I'd have bought it in a heartbeat on iTunes.
Having said that, I did catch it on terrestrial TV a couple of years ago, and I thought it seemed quite dated.
In the US, you are able to buy HD versions of two of my favourite movies: Jean de Florette / Manon des Sources. They feature fabulous photography of the glorious French countryside. In the UK, for who knows what reason, it's only ever been available as SD on iTunes. So I won't buy it on principle. My TV cries when it plays SD content!
This only came to my mind recently when rummaging through a storage cupboard and found my VHS collectors box of The Abyss.....đź“Ľ
Both are bad . . . on Apple's part it's Buy vs Rent, but you're not truly buying. Apple doesn't push the narrative anymore, but they did before: "You don't need extra storage, all you need is a connection to the internet and you can access your movies and TV shows anytime"