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Do you buy movies digitally?

posted 5 months ago by BrandNewPoster (10996)
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If so, from where? And what were the last movies you bought digitally? I sometimes buy digital movies from the Apple tv app (formerly called iTunes). I bought Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga on sale today for 9.99. It includes a couple hours of behind the scenes footage and special features. In the past two months I have purchased digital copies of:

Kinds of Kindness
Hit Man
The Boyfriend
The Fall Guy
Back to the Beach
Pennies From Heaven
Xandau
It Happened at the World's Fair
Lullaby for Broadway
Tea for Two

[–] Valerian (-273) 5 months ago

Are they in some standard format that work with common video players?

[–] BrandNewPoster (10996) 5 months ago

They are a digital copy, so you watch them in the app on any device that is compatible with it.

[–] MaximRecoil (4836) 5 months ago

As far as I know, no one legitimately sells 1:1 rips of Blu-rays in a standard video file format (e.g., an MKV or MP4 container) that you can download to your drive, so no, I never have. If I'm going to pay for it, it's going to be mine to keep indefinitely and do whatever I want with it, not some DRM-laden, reduced bitrate horseshit that depends on a proprietary media player and which can be taken away at any time.

Physical Blu-rays and DVDs have forms of DRM too, but they are easily defeated, which gives you a standard video file that you can do whatever you want with, and which is under no one's control other than your own.

[–] SamNoyoun (6009) 5 months ago

No, but many of the DVDs I buy these days include a code to download a digital copy...

[–] Kowalski (78804) 5 months ago

FUUUUUUUUCK NO.😐

[–] BrandNewPoster (10996) 5 months ago

Aren't you that guy who loves digital movies and hates physical media?

[–] Kowalski (78804) 5 months ago

I USED TO SELL THEM...THEN EBAY GOT ALL ASSHOLE ABOUT THAT...NOW I SPIT ON THEM AND THROW THEM AWAY.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (78491) 5 months ago

Never. I will rent some every month for MCMC weekends though if they’re like 3-5 bucks.

[–] M1sterDoct0r (4530) 5 months ago

No. I'm a physical media guy.

Also, I literally just got my Furiosa Bluray today.

My collection isn't THAT huge. Cause I don't buy everything. If I'm unsure of it, I'll check it out on streaming or just rent it.

The biggest compliment I could give a film/tv show is, "I saw it on the big screen/on tv & now I own it for life."

[–] [deleted] 5 months ago

Yep, Amazon Prime. I have about 300 titles.

[–] AndyKing1967 (39760) 5 months ago

No. Once in a blue moon I might rent one if it’s something that I really want to watch immediately.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (78491) 5 months ago

Same here.