Digital Copies. - Blu-ray Forum

Tom Bars · 05-22-2009, 03:53 AM

I have 60 or so blu-rays some of which have the digital copy option. I have not tried that out yet due to insufficient room on my computer. I am just curious, i usually throw away all that paper/insturction manual spam inside the bluray, you know it just gets annoying, but my friend told me i should have kept all that because that stuff has a code on it that allows you to get it on the computer. Is it still possible to get all of the digital copies onto the computer without all the manual/code that it came with?

DeadDog · 05-22-2009, 04:01 AM

No, sorry. Those inserts have specific codes that can only be used once. Without them there is no way to get them onto your computer.

Chaka · 05-22-2009, 04:05 AM

keep also in mind that these codes do expire. If you are waiting to amass a large portable collection and transfer all at once, they might not work.

ulri4651 · 05-22-2009, 04:49 AM

yeah unfortunately you will be out of luck without the "code" for each digital copy. but in my opinion you aren't missing out on much. i have about 20 or so blu's with digital copies and i have not used a single one. like you said, they just aren't worth the space they require.

MOONPHASE · 05-22-2009, 04:55 AM

I guess you could try calling whatever studio company the digital copy is for if you really want to have it. But there is 1 more thing that hasn't been mentioned yet that most of them only require like iTunes,an Ipod, etc. so you would need to know what that digital copy is compatible with.

Tom Bars · 05-22-2009, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by ulri4651

yeah unfortunately you will be out of luck without the "code" for each digital copy. but in my opinion you aren't missing out on much. i have about 20 or so blu's with digital copies and i have not used a single one. like you said, they just aren't worth the space they require.

well thats a bummer, but i agree. was just thinking for my ipod or something, might save me some money to get some movies on it.

andyman1970 · 05-22-2009, 02:06 PM

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Originally Posted by ulri4651

yeah unfortunately you will be out of luck without the "code" for each digital copy. but in my opinion you aren't missing out on much. i have about 20 or so blu's with digital copies and i have not used a single one. like you said, they just aren't worth the space they require.

Not to mention the fact that the audio and video quality is crap.

Sonny · 05-22-2009, 02:13 PM

@OP, Its best to use them right when you get them, but if space is an issue then your just out of luck unfortunately. I have 40+ digi copies from buying BD's. I love having the digi copy because my wife & I have iphones & travel often. Not to mention 16 nieces & nephews & they all have video ipods, hell my mom has an iphone! I have a MacBook (wife took my MacBook Pro

) & thats where I store all the movies. If you were to buy all these movies from iTunes you would be paying $15 for new releases & $10 for all others. That is $400-$600 worth the movies! I for one do not want to miss-out on that.

@ andyman, ya the PQ is crap on your 22" monitor! On a 3.5" iphone screen they look great. Even on my 13.3" MacBook screen they look just ok (nothing special thats for sure)...but I don't spend my time watching movies on my laptop anyway.

typ44q · 05-22-2009, 02:24 PM

I have yet to use any of my digital copies, why would I want to watch a movie on my phone in less than sd-dvd quality with crappy 2 channel audio when I can watch it on a 56" HDTV with loseless audio. personally I would rather wait to watch the movie than watch it like that.

andyman1970 · 05-22-2009, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Sonny

@ andyman, ya the PQ is crap on your 22" monitor! On a 3.5" iphone screen they look great. Even on my 13.3" MacBook screen they look just ok (nothing special thats for sure)...but I don't spend my time watching movies on my laptop anyway.

That's another thing. What's the appeal to watching a movie on a 3.5" screen? I would imagine anything would look great on a screen that small, because it's not big enough to show any detail.

School · 05-22-2009, 02:43 PM

Can all of these only be used once?

Sonny · 05-22-2009, 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by andyman1970

That's another thing. What's the appeal to watching a movie on a 3.5" screen? I would imagine anything would look great on a screen that small, because it's not big enough to show any detail.

The appeal is convenience. I don't sit at home & watch a 2 hour movie on my phone. Now while sitting in the airport & in flight it is great for killing time.

You would be surprised at the detail & just how nice the picture looks (it's perfectly clear) on an iphone. Were not talking YouTube quality here lol. You would just have to see it for your self to understand I guess.

Sonny · 05-22-2009, 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by typ44q

I have yet to use any of my digital copies, why would I want to watch a movie on my phone in less than sd-dvd quality with crappy 2 channel audio when I can watch it on a 56" HDTV with loseless audio. personally I would rather wait to watch the movie than watch it like that.

Thats the thing... It's not about choosing to watch your digi copy OVER your BD copy. Come on. The digi copy is for when your on the move & thats it. Its that simple.

dadkins · 05-22-2009, 02:54 PM

Also watch out!
I hosed my C drive and had to re-image it... took that key with it.
Afterwards, the Digital Copy that was on another partition refused to play.
Asked for the key, and since it had already been used(that's how I got it on the HDD in the first place) I was denied!

I then had a useless file on my drive.

No worries though, I'll just take one of my BD laptops and play the BD itself or some sort of *other* video file.

McLovin · 05-22-2009, 02:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sonny

The appeal is convenience. I don't sit at home & watch a 2 hour movie on my phone. Now while sitting in the airport & in flight it is great for killing time.

You would be surprised at the detail & just how nice the picture looks (it's perfectly clear) on an iphone. Were not talking YouTube quality here lol. You would just have to see it for your self to understand I guess.

Exactly.

typ44q · 05-22-2009, 03:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sonny

Thats the thing... It's not about choosing to watch your digi copy OVER your BD copy. Come on. The digi copy is for when your on the move & thats it. Its that simple.

I guess for me when I watch a movie I want it to be the best quality possible every time. I guess it depends more on the movie but has just never appealed to me.
I would be more inclined to watch digi copies of TV shows on my iphone than movies, especially if they are older non HD shows.

Xerios · 05-22-2009, 03:10 PM

ive put 9 or so movies on my computer taking up roughly 7.7 gigs of space... unless they make a 60gig or greater iphone/itouch i dont see the poing in wasting any of my 8 or 16 gig ipod for space for movies i own =/ now on a laptop thats a diff story

fdm · 05-22-2009, 03:16 PM

Waste of a disc.

TheManInBlu · 05-22-2009, 04:30 PM

Digital copies are a total waste of plastic. I use them as coasters; my guests find they make colorful coasters (Hulk, Matrix, Punisher etc). I wouldn't be surprised if studios bump up the price of their releases by a dollar or two to make us pay for these crappy discs. They should give us an option with or wirthout digital crappies. Just like they do for DVDs, one or two disc editions for the folks who don't care about special features. Death to digital crappies, I say

Joe Cain · 05-22-2009, 04:56 PM

First time I was glad I had a digital copy was when my connecting flight was cancelled and my layover became five hours longer.

The kids are watching less TV than ever before, but it's nice to have stuff they like on hand for traveling and I can jack the pod into the portable DVD player and the vacation TV (on those occasions when an HDTV has been at the other end, I've packed in the PS3, natch). With Bolt, A Bug's Life, The Nightmare Before Christmas, WALL•E, and a few shorts for which I've actually paid iTunes because I could get them there first (Pixar's "Presto," "Lifted," and the newest Goofy short "How to Hook Up Your Home Theater"), there's no need to pack any hard media for our upcoming family beach trip.

I'n the basement I've put in a home entertainment center of obsolete technology built around an old Onkyo receiver and a 32" SD CRT Magnavox TV, which is what the treadmill faces during the 40 minutes a day I spend on it. I won't say the digital copy of The Dark Knight looks as good as Batman Begins on DVD, but under those viewing circumstances my particular viewing experience is affected not in the slightest; it's much superior to watching Batman Returns on VHS, at any rate. I paid for the DC with the BD, it's the only option I've got to see that film on that TV...

Except for the whole one-use disc thing I like digital copies because I get value out of them. Besides, I feel entitled; it's likely to be the only such fulfillment of the now-abanodned managed copy provision in BD's specs we're ever going to see.

05-22-2009, 03:53 AM	#1
Tom Bars Member Member since:Jan 2009 Home Theater Gallery:24	Digital Copies. I have 60 or so blu-rays some of which have the digital copy option. I have not tried that out yet due to insufficient room on my computer. I am just curious, i usually throw away all that paper/insturction manual spam inside the bluray, you know it just gets annoying, but my friend told me i should have kept all that because that stuff has a code on it that allows you to get it on the computer. Is it still possible to get all of the digital copies onto the computer without all the manual/code that it came with?

05-22-2009, 02:13 PM	#8
Sonny Blu-ray Ninja Member since:Aug 2007 Home Theater Gallery:8 Blu-ray reviews:6 Trading Score:1	@OP, Its best to use them right when you get them, but if space is an issue then your just out of luck unfortunately. I have 40+ digi copies from buying BD's. I love having the digi copy because my wife & I have iphones & travel often. Not to mention 16 nieces & nephews & they all have video ipods, hell my mom has an iphone! I have a MacBook (wife took my MacBook Pro ) & thats where I store all the movies. If you were to buy all these movies from iTunes you would be paying $15 for new releases & $10 for all others. That is $400-$600 worth the movies! I for one do not want to miss-out on that. @ andyman, ya the PQ is crap on your 22" monitor! On a 3.5" iphone screen they look great. Even on my 13.3" MacBook screen they look just ok (nothing special thats for sure)...but I don't spend my time watching movies on my laptop anyway. Last edited by Sonny; 05-22-2009 at 02:18 PM.

05-22-2009, 02:54 PM	#14
dadkins Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Jan 2007 Location:Hercules, CA Blu-ray collection:35 Blu-ray reviews:2	Also watch out! I hosed my C drive and had to re-image it... took that key with it. Afterwards, the Digital Copy that was on another partition refused to play. Asked for the key, and since it had already been used(that's how I got it on the HDD in the first place) I was denied! I then had a useless file on my drive. No worries though, I'll just take one of my BD laptops and play the BD itself or some sort of other video file. Last edited by dadkins; 05-22-2009 at 02:56 PM.

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05-22-2009, 04:01 AM	#2
DeadDog Power Member Top contributor Member since:Jul 2008 Home Theater Gallery:12 Blu-ray collection:355 Digital collection:96 iTunes collection:125 Trading Score:360	No, sorry. Those inserts have specific codes that can only be used once. Without them there is no way to get them onto your computer.

05-22-2009, 04:05 AM	#3
Chaka Special Member Member since:Jan 2008 Location:Huntington Beach, CA Blu-ray collection:254 Blu-ray reviews:1 Trading Score:11	keep also in mind that these codes do expire. If you are waiting to amass a large portable collection and transfer all at once, they might not work.

05-22-2009, 04:49 AM	#4
ulri4651 Banned Member since:Apr 2007 Blu-ray collection:162 Trading Score:36	yeah unfortunately you will be out of luck without the "code" for each digital copy. but in my opinion you aren't missing out on much. i have about 20 or so blu's with digital copies and i have not used a single one. like you said, they just aren't worth the space they require.

05-22-2009, 04:55 AM	#5
MOONPHASE Blu-ray Duke Top contributor Member since:Jun 2007 Location:California 4K collection:8 Blu-ray collection:520 DVD collection:820 Blu-ray reviews:18 Trading Score:29	I guess you could try calling whatever studio company the digital copy is for if you really want to have it. But there is 1 more thing that hasn't been mentioned yet that most of them only require like iTunes,an Ipod, etc. so you would need to know what that digital copy is compatible with.

05-22-2009, 02:24 PM	#9
typ44q Senior Member Top contributor Member since:Apr 2009 4K collection:61 Blu-ray collection:624 DVD collection:70 Trading Score:1	I have yet to use any of my digital copies, why would I want to watch a movie on my phone in less than sd-dvd quality with crappy 2 channel audio when I can watch it on a 56" HDTV with loseless audio. personally I would rather wait to watch the movie than watch it like that.

05-22-2009, 02:43 PM	#11
School Power Member Member since:Dec 2007 Home Theater Gallery:11 Blu-ray collection:299 Trading Score:7	Can all of these only be used once?

05-22-2009, 03:10 PM	#17
Xerios Blu-ray Ninja Top contributor Member since:Jul 2008 Location:Irving, TX PSNetwork: Xerios Home Theater Gallery:3 Blu-ray collection:286 DVD collection:5 Trading Score:1	ive put 9 or so movies on my computer taking up roughly 7.7 gigs of space... unless they make a 60gig or greater iphone/itouch i dont see the poing in wasting any of my 8 or 16 gig ipod for space for movies i own =/ now on a laptop thats a diff story

05-22-2009, 03:16 PM	#18
fdm Blu-ray Ninja Top contributor Member since:Nov 2007 Location:Way Out West 4K collection:- Blu-ray collection:- DVD collection:- Digital collection:- iTunes collection:- Prime collection:- Blu-ray reviews:2 Trading Score:3	Waste of a disc.

05-22-2009, 04:30 PM	#19
TheManInBlu Active Member Top contributor Member since:Dec 2008 Location:Québec, Canada Blu-ray collection:98 DVD collection:48 Trading Score:7	Digital copies are a total waste of plastic. I use them as coasters; my guests find they make colorful coasters (Hulk, Matrix, Punisher etc). I wouldn't be surprised if studios bump up the price of their releases by a dollar or two to make us pay for these crappy discs. They should give us an option with or wirthout digital crappies. Just like they do for DVDs, one or two disc editions for the folks who don't care about special features. Death to digital crappies, I say

05-22-2009, 04:56 PM	#20
Joe Cain Power Member Member since:Sep 2007 Location:The Tragic City Blu-ray collection:79	First time I was glad I had a digital copy was when my connecting flight was cancelled and my layover became five hours longer. The kids are watching less TV than ever before, but it's nice to have stuff they like on hand for traveling and I can jack the pod into the portable DVD player and the vacation TV (on those occasions when an HDTV has been at the other end, I've packed in the PS3, natch). With Bolt, A Bug's Life, The Nightmare Before Christmas, WALL•E, and a few shorts for which I've actually paid iTunes because I could get them there first (Pixar's "Presto," "Lifted," and the newest Goofy short "How to Hook Up Your Home Theater"), there's no need to pack any hard media for our upcoming family beach trip. I'n the basement I've put in a home entertainment center of obsolete technology built around an old Onkyo receiver and a 32" SD CRT Magnavox TV, which is what the treadmill faces during the 40 minutes a day I spend on it. I won't say the digital copy of The Dark Knight looks as good as Batman Begins on DVD, but under those viewing circumstances my particular viewing experience is affected not in the slightest; it's much superior to watching Batman Returns on VHS, at any rate. I paid for the DC with the BD, it's the only option I've got to see that film on that TV... Except for the whole one-use disc thing I like digital copies because I get value out of them. Besides, I feel entitled; it's likely to be the only such fulfillment of the now-abanodned managed copy provision in BD's specs we're ever going to see.

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