Digital copies, why?

[ZvR]

a simple question please...
is digital copies contain with subtitle?

[Station]

as a freelancer, i get a lot of downtime on on-site jobs sometimes, so having my iphone loaded up with digital copies is great. I don't like the fact that they tout it around like a legitimate extra though. Although, i think that with all the space they have on blu ray discs, most are lacking in the extras department anyway.

[CreatineSteve]

im yet to use one too lol
im sure one day if i have a trip or something ill dump somethin on my ipod
wuts the usual size of the files anways?

[MobileES]

Originally Posted by roach_rch

Another absurd edition is the upcoming Disney's Up - 2x BD + 1x DVD + 1x Digital Copy. I regret that they couldn't fit also the Laserdisc, HD DVD and the USB flash drive with second digital copy into that box. I absolutely HATE Digital Copies.

ROTFLMAO!!!

[krazeyeyez]

I hate the fact they are limited, if you don't get a first release edition you don't get them, and then they have an expiration. This seems extremely dumb. Way to not push the format and to add yet another thing to blu-rays that has exceptions and furthers customer confusion.

[blu_sharpy]

Originally Posted by krazeyeyez

I hate the fact they are limited, if you don't get a first release edition you don't get them, and then they have an expiration. This seems extremely dumb. Way to not push the format and to add yet another thing to blu-rays that has exceptions and furthers customer confusion.

I tried to say that on the HP forum but got shouted down with the usual buy it on release date if its such a problem rubbish.
I think its ridiculuous that they are limited but there should be a set time maybe a year or two. Not a limit that varies between companies and becomes confusing.

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by Kynch

You never saw DVDs come with a "Bonus VHS Copy of the Movie!".

I know some people'll bring out the "What about a DVD copy for the children to watch?" argument. But since I don't have any yet, I still think that you shouldn't be charged extra fsuch as Digital Copies and DVD copies of movies. Or if it's simply unavoidable, put the digital copy on the DVD or put a flyer in the case to download the movie online.

Well, that's just it, y'see:
The DVD Copy didn't start as "For your kids"--It started out with Disney giving you a "safe" copy of Sleeping Beauty along with the Blu-Ray that you could watch now, just in case you hadn't bought your $400 player yet by the time the disk was retired in January '10...And they didn't want more "Mean ol' Walt put it back in the Vault, and they didn't let us buy one! " whiners like that dopey SNL sketch.
It was meant to be Handicap Access...It was meant to be a PUBLIC SERVICE, trying to avoid all the PR problems that arose when Bambi, Pinocchio and Fantasia were retired the first time.

It was a good idea. The average mainstream whitebread non-Blu owners were supposed to pick up on it.
And because all the Blu buyers grabbed onto the idea first, and said "Wow, a DVD for me? Thanks!", the audience it was meant for just couldn't get it through their freakin' skulls!
(They put the Snow White Blu in a DVD box, fer rice cakes, and it STILL DIDN'T WORK!!!!!!!!!!!)

Okay--That's the History lesson for why we have DVD copies.
Now keep your lesson book open for why we have Digital copies:

Steve Jobs came up with the idea, you see. He thought, hey, people are going to use these new iPods with video, why not get studios together and cross-promote their movies by offering the DC files as a bonus on the disks?
The studios scoffed cruelly. "Scoff, scoff", they scoffed, "our disks are meant for real extras; why should we give our movies away to watch on gadgets, when we're trying to sell home theater?
So poor Steve took his little iRan sneakers, trudged back to Cupertino, and invented the iTunes Store all by himself, where studios (well, just Disney for now, anyway, since he owned the studio) could license soft copies of their movies for download, and users could fill their hungry lil' iPods that didn't have any video yet on them. You probably know what happened to that idea.

After a while, every studio noticed Steve's idea was catching on, beat a path to his door, and finally you could buy other movies and TV shows besides Disney and ABC.
And all was happy...Well, not quite: There was that little matter that every movie and every TV show had the same price. Which meant that studios couldn't make as much money as they wanted to in their imaginations, and they couldn't charge any more for "GI Joe" than they could for just a plain ol' vault movie.
So Sony--who still believed that Microsoft's "Plays For Sure" would still crush the iPod someday--came up with a neat idea: Hey, teen gang...What if we put a WMV compatible movie file right on our disks! That way, fans would still have to pay the full $29 purchase price for the hard disks anyway, and we might sell some more of these-here Zune players! (Gad!--Where do they come up with these inspirations? )
Fox and Warner--still trying to do something with those Amazon downloads that were going to crush the iTunes Store--quickly followed suit, and after a few years of working out the bugs, realized that everyone really did have an iPod anyway.

There, now....Do we feel smarter than we did before?
Please bookmark this post for future reference, the next time we get this exact same thread three to six months later by the clock.

[Pauliesr]

Originally Posted by sokrman14

I use them everytime I am on a plane. I bring either my laptop or my Ipod with them loaded on there.

Makes 2 of us. I have a 16gb iPhone. My last trip was to Toronto in October and I took 3 different films with me. I got time to watch them all. I like that it's another option for me to have something to do. And I like that I can stop and start any time and the movie picks up where it was stopped.

If you don't like them, don't use them. I'm sure a lot of people have no use for them and that's fine. I wouldn't lose any sleep if they disappeared and I went the first 39 years of my life without them. But if they're tossing them in anyways, I'll make sure the digital is loaded in iTunes and I'll go browsing next time I know I'll have a few hours to kill (without the luxury of being at home).

[GOAT]

Originally Posted by EricJ

Well, that's just it, y'see:
The DVD Copy didn't start as "For your kids"--It started out with Disney giving you a "safe" copy of Sleeping Beauty along with the Blu-Ray that you could watch now, just in case you hadn't bought your $400 player yet by the time the disk was retired in January '10...And they didn't want more "Mean ol' Walt put it back in the Vault, and they didn't let us buy one! " whiners like that dopey SNL sketch.
It was meant to be Handicap Access...It was meant to be a PUBLIC SERVICE, trying to avoid all the PR problems that arose when Bambi, Pinocchio and Fantasia were retired the first time.

It was a good idea. The average mainstream whitebread non-Blu owners were supposed to pick up on it.
And because all the Blu buyers grabbed onto the idea first, and said "Wow, a DVD for me? Thanks!", the audience it was meant for just couldn't get it through their freakin' skulls!
(They put the Snow White Blu in a DVD box, fer rice cakes, and it STILL DIDN'T WORK!!!!!!!!!!!)

Okay--That's the History lesson for why we have DVD copies.
Now keep your lesson book open for why we have Digital copies:

Steve Jobs came up with the idea, you see. He thought, hey, people are going to use these new iPods with video, why not get studios together and cross-promote their movies by offering the DC files as a bonus on the disks?
The studios scoffed cruelly. "Scoff, scoff", they scoffed, "our disks are meant for real extras; why should we give our movies away to watch on gadgets, when we're trying to sell home theater?
So poor Steve took his little iRan sneakers, trudged back to Cupertino, and invented the iTunes Store all by himself, where studios (well, just Disney for now, anyway, since he owned the studio) could license soft copies of their movies for download, and users could fill their hungry lil' iPods that didn't have any video yet on them. You probably know what happened to that idea.

After a while, every studio noticed Steve's idea was catching on, beat a path to his door, and finally you could buy other movies and TV shows besides Disney and ABC.
And all was happy...Well, not quite: There was that little matter that every movie and every TV show had the same price. Which meant that studios couldn't make as much money as they wanted to in their imaginations, and they couldn't charge any more for "GI Joe" than they could for just a plain ol' vault movie.
So Sony--who still believed that Microsoft's "Plays For Sure" would still crush the iPod someday--came up with a neat idea: Hey, teen gang...What if we put a WMV compatible movie file right on our disks! That way, fans would still have to pay the full $29 purchase price for the hard disks anyway, and we might sell some more of these-here Zune players! (Gad!--Where do they come up with these inspirations? )
Fox and Warner--still trying to do something with those Amazon downloads that were going to crush the iTunes Store--quickly followed suit, and after a few years of working out the bugs, realized that everyone really did have an iPod anyway.

There, now....Do we feel smarter than we did before?
Please bookmark this post for future reference, the next time we get this exact same thread three to six months later by the clock.

A++ post

[RickyBluTan]

Expired Digital Copies...what to do?

Well some Blu batches come with expired DC and some are just left clueless SO here's what you do:

Email the Company that made the disk(Sony,WB,Disney..etc)
And just let them know and BOOM they'll email back and send you a ITUNES TOKEN! Sounds crazy but I had success this week with "Speed Racer" & "Elf".


Someone post this on the OP so that some can find Hope for a thread like this one and seek an anwser for a Expired DC.

Thanks!

[krazeyeyez]

Originally Posted by RickyBluTan

Expired Digital Copies...what to do?

Well some Blu batches come with expired DC and some are just left clueless SO here's what you do:

Email the Company that made the disk(Sony,WB,Disney..etc)
And just let them know and BOOM they'll email back and send you a ITUNES TOKEN! Sounds crazy but I had success this week with "Speed Racer" & "Elf".


Someone post this on the OP so that some can find Hope for a thread like this one and seek an anwser for a Expired DC.

Thanks!

Really good to know, thanks.

[joker552]

Or maybe for those that like to sit on a toilet for more than an hour and watch movies.

[Riddler95]

I don't care for the Digital Copies of movies included with DVD and Blu-Ray editions.

I do not like on how they advertise the sets as two disc sets, but the 2nd disc will be a digital copy.

[P@t_Mtl]

Originally Posted by joker552

Or maybe for those that like to sit on a toilet for more than an hour and watch movies.

I would say they need to go see a doctor if they have to sit for an hour on the toilet digital copies won't help fix that problem

[DrrnHarr]

Originally Posted by doctorthodt

What does bother me though is when movies with digital copies are marketed as 2 disc sets (when the second disc is just a digital copy), or some kind of super awesome bonus special edition. Take the GI Joe cover for instance:



Digital Copy Edition? Bahahaha. Give me a break.

Except in the instance of GI Joe the digital copy disc contained the bulk of the special features (documentaries, featurettes etc).

I put the digital copies on my iTouch, so I find them very useful.


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[BJMRamage]

I like the idea that I have Up on Blu-ray and DVD that can be used upstairs or on any computer or over the grandparents house or in my nephew's portable DVD player we might borrow or in a car with DVD installed or....

As far as DC, i don't like how they expire, at least with Free TIckets you understand if teh movie is not out, the tickets aren't good, but if you just got a Blu-ray player (like me) and want to buy some older BDs you get slightly "shafted" with the DC expirations. then i have to wonder which computer to put it on, teh laptop with tiny screen and not much HD space that can be taken most places or the iMac with larger screen and HD but not portable.

[Socko]

I wished they worked in Europe, but as soon as I enter the code it says US and Canada only. pfffff

I got loads of them and I can't use them What a waste of discs

[cojake]

Originally Posted by joker552

Or maybe for those that like to sit on a toilet for more than an hour and watch movies.

Funny!

I love getting a bonus digital copy to put on my itunes/iphone.

[DrrnHarr]

Originally Posted by BluRayMan69

Honestly, I hate digital copy. Its a cheap gimmick to me. Why not use that extra disc and make it a blu ray with features? or just make it a standard dvd packaged with the blu ray?

That's essentially what they did with "G.I. Joe" with the bulk of the special features on the digital copy disc.

[styl3s]

Originally Posted by DrrnHarr

Except in the instance of GI Joe the digital copy disc contained the bulk of the special features (documentaries, featurettes etc).

I put the digital copies on my iTouch, so I find them very useful.


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Where did you get your GI joe set? because the 2disc i got didn't come with a "bulk" of special features, the special features were weak sauce.