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Old 11-01-2019, 08:26 PM   #1
sea2000 sea2000 is offline
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Default What's your current digital movie strategy?

Adapting a line from Airplane, "Looks like I picked the wrong year to quit...physical media."

I decided to shift to digital movies about a year ago, after collecting physical media for two decades. Based on all that's occurred this past year, it's obvious I arrived late at the digital locker party and the subscription model is already supplanting it. However, I plan to ride it out, in the hope that the digital locker and subscription models will end up co-existing.

For the time being, this is my strategy:
1. Buying digital movies primarily on iTunes during their $4.99-or-under sales, now that there's an Apple app on Roku.

2. Buying digital movies on Prime Video in those rare cases where they have a good sale price that's not just an iTunes match.

3. Buying digital movies on Vudu only if there's a good sale price and/or I've earned a credit. The movies must be MA, since UV is gone and Vudu's future is uncertain. (I've already completed all my D2D buying.)

4. Avoiding Google Play and Microsoft for the most part, as I have thus far, since they rarely have favorable pricing and have little to recommend them. Same with FandangoNow, in terms of buying, but I will continue to use them for viewing non-MA/formerly UV movies (they sometimes have better prints than Vudu).

5. Keeping Blu-rays of my favorite movies (particularly non-MA ones) and those not available digitally. Same if the sound is better on the Blu-ray (e.g., 5.1 versus stereo). I'll continue to avoid buying any new Blu-rays, though.
How has what's occurred this past year changed your strategy?

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