Question: if a DVD includes a file on the disc that’s readily playable on your computer (on iTunes or whatever), is it worth $3 or $4 extra dollars? Or are you of the mindset that, hey, I’ve already paid for this content, why am I being charged again just to watch it on a different screen? (That’s me. Big surprise.)
Apple is in negotiations with Hollywood studios to sell movies on iTunes—movies other than the Steve Jobs-influenced Disney/Pixar ones—but only after reportedly agreeing to sell them for $15. (Jobs had been lobbying for $10 movies for some time now and only wanted to sell them for that price.) So that’s that part of the story.
For its part, Fox is said to be ready to sell DVDs that come with Apple-friendly files, only it wants to charge $3 or $4 more. Nice idea, but, honestly, is there really a need to charge extra for the Apple-friendly file? What incentive is there then to not buy the cheaper one and rip it on my own? Granted, Grandma and Grandpa won’t be doing that, but I’ll happily do it for them.
The greed here is so ridiculous.
DVD Movies With an iTunes Copy: Worth More? [Bits/New York Times]
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“The greed here is so ridiculous.”
I couldn’t agree more. I’m sure that people will pay that extra $4 for this though. I’ve never figured out why people accept being treated like dirt by the movie studios.
I will absolutely, positively, never buy a DVD that costs more to pay for content that I don’t need, don’t want, and (most importantly) caters to a monopolisitic file format that I cannot play on several of my non-crApple devices.
Another reason I have never bought a movie and never will!!! Idiots!!
I don’t really understand why anyone would buy movies anymore, Netflix is cheap, easy, and much more affordable than purchasing all those DVDs.
Therefore, no I wouldn’t pay extra to get an iTunes version with a DVD, although I would pay $3-$4 to rent a movie through iTunes (occasionally I would like to watch a movie immediately and an extra $3 or so here or there wouldn’t be that bad)
no. its called handbrake
I do not think that is it right to mark up movies even more than they have been just to put on extra file on it… however if they did do this would you be able to rent these movies with these files… because that i could be into… rent it once and have it on my computer forever
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