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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)
With iTunes, if it gets upgraded to 4k, you get it.
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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.
Thanks in advance.
Then I observed digital movies I paid for and "own" suddenly become unavailable, or withdrawn then replaced with a "different purchase" "Directors Cuts," or "50th Anniversary Versions" and other scams to steal away the thing I "purchased."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.
Thanks in advance.
I think you have more reason to worry about colon cancer than the things you're describing.
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I guess promotional credit and gift cards aren't the same thing, but I get $5 promo credit codes from Fandango for every 4 movie tickets I buy from them and so I've redeemed dozens of codes on Vudu. They were also doing a promo with Twizzlers a couple years ago where you'd get a promo credit for submitting a receipt and I got a ton of those as well.
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.
Also, 3-4 GB is awfully tiny for your average movie. Your average physical Bluray movie is usually 18 GB on the low end and some as high as 40 GB. 3-4 GB is watchable but the compression will be quite visible on certain scenes at such a low bitrate.
Also, 3-4 GB is awfully tiny for your average movie. Your average physical Bluray movie is usually 18 GB on the low end and some as high as 40 GB. 3-4 GB is watchable but the compression will be quite visible on certain scenes at such a low bitrate.
Unfortunately your good logic doesn't work because (as mentioned earlier) the T&C give them the right to remove content at any time for any reason without compensation. You will not find any streaming fine print without that.
Yes. Perhaps if every digital deal thread had the warning in the OP that "the T&C of all digital content providers says they can remove any content at any time for any reason without compensation", then we wouldn't have to keep reminding people in digital deal threads. Until then we'll keep popping up like weeds.
I wouldn't say we're like weeds, I'd call us people who want this abhorrent behavior to stop all together. And the only way to do this is to make people as informed as possible
Nonsense. I've used way more than 40. It stinks you can only keep 3 in your account at a time though.
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Knowing I could lose my digital purchases someday doesn't completely stop me from buying digital, but it significantly limits how much I'm willing to spend. If I had an ironclad guarantee (backed by independent money like an Escrow fund for an insured bond) that I could never lose content, then I'd buy more digital. Until then given the choice between a $5 digital copy or a $6-$12 physical 4K or Bluray, the latter usually wins for me.
Nevertheless, if informed people buy less digital, Hollywood studios will never make the connection it's because people don't trust they will get to keep their so-called "owned" content (or that prices are too high). They'll assume people prefer to rent/stream instead of "own".