Digital copies of LOTR set about to expire

[Rincewind78]

Never saw the point of the Digital Copies. Dont watch my movies that often, and if I do want to see these movies, it will be with BD quality on my LED TV, not some little ipod touch screen.

Only ever downloaded Star Trek - and that was just to see what it would be like; never saw it once all the way through. only ever played it to show naive family members who've never seen a movie on a hand held device before.
couldnt care less about seeing it on my laptop either.

have Watchmen, Up, Where The Wild Things Are, Kick Ass - infact, most of my collection comes with some daft downloadable copy and DVD I care little about. never bothered to download any of them.

in the UK, every maintstream movie is now mainly only available on BD as part of a Triple Pack. bumping the prices up horrendously. I do not care for these extra formats - and just wish there was a second option avaible where the BD is available on its own - but sadly not.

for instance - How To Train Your Dragon came out to buy around November time last year. Its only available as part of a "double pack",
and its still full price even today!! equivalent to US$29.00. Will be importing the single BD version from the States soon.

[Gremal]

Originally Posted by Rincewind78

Never saw the point of the Digital Copies. Dont watch my movies that often, and if I do want to see these movies, it will be with BD quality on my LED TV, not some little ipod touch screen.

Spoken like someone whose never found themselves stuck with hours of flight delays at various airports. Next time that happens to me I look forward to checking out one of these digital copies on my laptop or iPhone. Well...maybe "look forward" isn't the right phrase, but watching a good movie on a mobile device is definitely better than twiddling my thumbs and waiting for a flight announcement.

[Gremal]

Bump...down to the last day before it expires.

[iamlilc]

Great, thanks!

I probably won't ever watch them, but I'm redeeming them anyways just in case.

[Johnny Vinyl]

Originally Posted by Gremal

Why am I not surprised a vinyl guy would never watch movies on an iPod?

LOL! So true...hell, I don't even listen to music on an MP3 device or my iPhone!

[Gremal]

Originally Posted by John72953

LOL! So true...hell, I don't even listen to music on an MP3 device or my iPhone!

Heehee. Didn't think so. I only use my iPod in my car. Not sure if I'll put any of the movies in my iPhone--it could come in handy someday but it also takes up space.

[Gold Ranger]

Originally Posted by goodstuff

The discs don't expire, the files will always be accessible from them when you put them in a player. However to allow the transfer of these files to your hard drive/portable movie player you need to access the internet and enter the specific code that is included with your disc. The acceptance of that code on the studio's side is what expires, pretty much rendering the Digital Copy disc useless after the code expiration date. Why they do this I have no clue other than to maybe try and get people to buy the discs new when they are most expensive and not wait for a used copy.

Thank you for the explanation.

[LetoAtreides82]

Thanks for reminding me, redeeming mines now.

[michaeljoo]

Originally Posted by fatediesel

I wonder if the codes will actually expire. I recently used my codes for The Dark Knight and Watchmen with no problems, and TDK's code was supposed to expire in 2009 and Watchmen's in July 2010. I didn't expect the codes to work but thought I'd give it a try and it worked fine.

Originally Posted by AaronSCH

My "Watchmen" code has indeed expired... so I don't why some codes would still be valid while others are not. Mine came with the Ultimate Cut box set.

Originally Posted by Kryptonic

Actually, nevermind. I have the code for Watchmen, but not the disc. Oh well. I tried it several months ago and it didn't work so I guess I threw the disc away.

Yes, are you sure about Watchmen?

I'm pretty sure I tried it a few of months ago when I eventually got around to organizing (i.e. finding) and downloading what DC's I could find in my library. Watchmen (Director's Cut) was one of them and it was expired and it wouldn't let me download the DC.

In my experience, WB is the worst with DC expirations. They are very strict with their deadlines. Once you pass them there seem to be no second chances or "one time exceptions."

Disney, on the other hand, seems to be very lenient and apparently has extended a bunch of their deadlines. This saved me on a few of the titles I had, but hadn't gotten around to downloading the DC in time. Some of the Disney titles I was able to download were over a year past their expiration date!

[michaeljoo]

fatediesel, also, were you using a Mac or PC?

I seem to recall reading a post somewhere that for some titles it seemed the DC's were expired on one platform, but still available on another. I think it was The Incredible Hulk where someone said you could still access the DC on a PC but not a Mac. (I use a Mac).