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101-Film MGM Anniversary Collection (Digital 4K/HD; Action/Drama/Comedy & More) Expired

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Appple iTunes has 101-Film MGM Anniversary Collection (Digital 4K Select Titles / HD Films) on sale for $100.

VUDU has 101-Film MGM Anniversary Collection (Digital HDX) on sale for $100.

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Note, all films in this bundle is not Movies Anywhere (MA) compatible

Grab thru Apple iTunes if you prefer the 4K upgrade films
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Celebrate 100 years of MGM and dive into timeless classics that shaped cinema, rediscover hidden gems, and revisit all-time favorite blockbusters - all at an unbeatable price with this 100- film bundle.
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This!
Here are the 4K titles via iTunes;

A Dry White Season
Ben-Hur (2016)
Cyrano
The Great Escape
Hercules (2014)
Hot Pursuit (2015)
House of Gucci
The Hustle
If I Stay
Rain Man
Tomb Raider (2018)
If buying on VUDU/Fandango at Home, buy a gift card on the site for $100 while using the code APRIL24 to purchase it at $90 instead of $100. Once it arrives and you load it up you'll be able to buy the collection with our $100 gift card amount. I actually didn't have 66 of these movies so doing it this way, my cost was $1.36/movie. If you don't have any of them your cost would be $.89/movie.
Remember buying from Vudu gives you zero 4k upgrade rights.
With iTunes, if it gets upgraded to 4k, you get it.

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garylapointe
04-17-2024 at 04:55 PM.
04-17-2024 at 04:55 PM.
Is it somehow possible I owned NONE of these?

I thought when I looked at My Library in the TV app on my MacBook, and sorted by date, it showed new content (so a bundle of 10 movies, but I owned two, only had eight at the top).

This listed all 100 for me.

I definitely didn't own any of the 4k movies.
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04-17-2024 at 05:26 PM.
04-17-2024 at 05:26 PM.
Quote from westermac :
A sobering dose of reality that absolutely no one asked for: every single physical item you "own" right down to your own body falls under a similarly revocable license (death), so I personally don't sweat the potential revocation of my digital movies too much.
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CourtC4337
04-17-2024 at 05:37 PM.
04-17-2024 at 05:37 PM.
This is a killer deal. It costs money to maintain a server that you can access wherever whenever. Are any companies actually trying to revoke licenses already? I always figured they just dont want to be paying for your willed out digital subscriptions 30+ years from now and or be sued for it.
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04-17-2024 at 05:39 PM.
04-17-2024 at 05:39 PM.
Quote from CoolSofa553 :
While I agree on thr points, for me digital is better because

1, No risk of damages
2, Doesn't have space to hold 100s of physical media as I have 900+ movies in my itunes collection.

I'm right there with you on the physical space argument, that's why I paid several thousands to "purchase" digital versions of many things I physically owned. Decided Apple was the safest library and after some learning glitches assembled a usable library of about 1,000 movies now. Really convenient to have access to movies wherever I am on a theoretical trip away from home, and easy access without storing and digging through tons of discs.

Then I observed digital movies I paid for and "own" suddenly become unavailable, or withdrawn then replaced with a "different purchase" "Directors Cuts," or "50th Anniversary Versions" and other scams to steal away the thing I "purchased." These studios tell us they are "selling" us a dumb movie that we will "own." But after they have our money, all of a sudden they act as though the digital movie was a charitable gift they gave us and is revocable whenever some cokehead in the C suites needs a few extra bumps.

Apple is even advising people to download the digital movies (which they won't allow in 4K, nor onto an Apple TV) because of this problem. So instead of buying and storing discs, I'm buying and storing and maintaining massive hard drives for movies I "own."

Either I own it, in which case Studios agree to keep it available regardless of backend licensing changes or modified versions- OR they owe a refund for anything we "purchased" and they took. After all- the studios "wouldn't steal a car," right? If a business sells to someone else, that new business acquires the obligations of the business they got, not just the assets.
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04-17-2024 at 05:48 PM.
04-17-2024 at 05:48 PM.
Biodome...Hackers...

These critics know their sh!+.
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04-17-2024 at 07:27 PM.
04-17-2024 at 07:27 PM.
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Reminder that you aren't "purchasing" these movies. You're "purchasing" a revocable license that can be taken away at anytime. You will own nothing and like it.
You're not necessarily wrong but my god, why do you people have to show up in every digital movie thread? If this happened to even 10% of the hundreds of digital movies I've bought, I'm still miles ahead financially and space-wise than if I bought physical.

But this has not happened to any concerning degree in the almost 20 years that digital movie purchasing has been a thing. I'll take my chances and like it.
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RyanR5412
04-17-2024 at 08:15 PM.
04-17-2024 at 08:15 PM.
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You're buying a right to watch it without any restriction: you can watch it as many times as you want and any time you want. But removing it will violate that right. I'm no lawyer but I'm sure a case can be made. The solution would be to give customers the refund but I think that's why Flixter and UV decided to merge their libraries with VUDU to avoid the class action lawsuits.

Also, the studios and digital platform made a mutually beneficial business agreement. Some people buy the physical media to get the digital copy and vice versa. I can name quite a few TV series which the digital isn't for sale from VUDU or iTunes, only available from digital code included in the physical media. Studios have to reimburse VUDU or iTunes whenever someone redeem the digital code included in the physical media. That's why Warner Bros decided to hard expire the MA codes because that's pure profit in accounting. The other studios that decided not to expire the digital code has to set aside money in case the digital code gets redeemed. I was told that VUDU and iTunes pay studios some money to get their product included in the physical media, and they get reimbursed a lot more when someone redeems the code. In a way, they are banking on getting some revenue from physical media sale.

There is this guy on Reddit who purchased 14,000 movies on VUDU. I don't think he has time to watch everything. If VUDU decides to disappear, I'm sure the guy would want to sue to get his money back.

Again, I don't think VUDU or iTunes can simply disappear without transferring people's paid libraries to another platform.


Yeah, but to go as far as accepting the legacy Flixter and UltraViolet digital codes, that had nothing to do with providing stability or maintaining customers' libaries.

Again I've had "purchased" content get pulled for months at a time because the service I "purchased" the content from lost streaming rights. You aren't entitled to keep your license if the service you "purchased" it from says "screw you we're shutting down" or "we lost the rights to the content."

It's all in the terms and conditions of the service you're using.
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kabalevski
04-17-2024 at 08:24 PM.
04-17-2024 at 08:24 PM.
I can't get myself to pull the trigger on vudu.... just because of the way it displays lol. If only they listed all the movies individually. I'm not making a bunch of lists ..... someone tell vudu to fix this !
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Exh40176
04-17-2024 at 09:00 PM.
04-17-2024 at 09:00 PM.
Can these movies be downloaded once you buy them?
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04-17-2024 at 10:44 PM.
04-17-2024 at 10:44 PM.
You guys forgot another reason to skip digital over discs. Some of the networks are going back to remove controversial content due to the PC climate that we are currently in.

An example of this is censoring the suicide scene in the last episode of the 1st season of "13 Reasons Why". That is a powerful scene that needs to stay in but it is being sanitized due to its suggestive content to teenagers who might watch it.

If I ever find the DVDs I would happily buy this before the scene gets removed.
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srfrog
04-17-2024 at 11:07 PM.
04-17-2024 at 11:07 PM.
I think a lot of the arguments against digital are solid but 100 movies at a $1 each is a fairly good deal, assuming you don't already own a large number of the movies. A person's physical library could get destroyed in a fire or whatever natural disaster they are geographically as risk for. No doubt some people have everything backed up on a NAS but that's a big hurdle technically and maybe financially for the average person. Anyway, I guess we have to determine our own risk tolerance and go from there. Very frustrating this bundle isn't MA...and also the way Vudu shows bundles like these in the library. I only own about 10 or so of these movies and some of those I don't have digital versions...not sure Smilie
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04-18-2024 at 04:54 AM.
04-18-2024 at 04:54 AM.
Quote from diamond12a :
And they just removed Hercules 1983 which was added as an error so the average just jumped higher. Leaving Hot Pursuit and Biodome as the bottom of the barrel.

Hercules 1983 still showing up in my purchase. Hell of a deal at 80 cents each after $100 Vudu gift card for $80 on raise. Amazingly I had none of the movies beforehand.
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04-18-2024 at 05:22 AM.
04-18-2024 at 05:22 AM.
Quote from hjelten :
Hercules 1983 still showing up in my purchase. Hell of a deal at 80 cents each after $100 Vudu gift card for $80 on raise. Amazingly I had none of the movies beforehand.
I'm trying to avoid buying things on VUDU because someone said that VUDU has a lifetime limit of 40 GC use per account. If that's true I'm in big trouble because I used many $25 GC bought at big discount from Newegg. Also the future free 4K upgrade from iTunes cannot be ignored. I'm not sure why people are choosing VUDU over iTunes and losing out on 11 4K titles. Every one of my $100 Apple GC had $10-15 discount.
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SlickGame612
04-18-2024 at 05:44 AM.
04-18-2024 at 05:44 AM.
Quote from diamond12a :
And they just removed Hercules 1983 which was added as an error so the average just jumped higher. Leaving Hot Pursuit and Biodome as the bottom of the barrel.
I bought the bundle before they removed it from the bundle and it still says I own it when I search it, so at least there's that
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