movies are cool. here is a place to talk about how cool they are. or maybe how much they suck, sometimes. like that fucking piece of shit 'mac and me'. worst fucking movie ever, a two-hour ad for fucking coca-cola.
I've acquired a few of them in the few months they've been included with many DVDs. Since I don't have a portable video player, its useless for me right now but I thought it would be cool to have in the future. But looking at my lats 2 DVDs that have digital copies with them, I see that in small print on the back of the case it says that
"Digital Copy may not be valid after Date X, 2009"
I really don't like the idea of having what I consider a "bonus feature" that I won't be able to use in the future.
The websites listed on the cases (foxdigitalcopy.com and digitalcopy.warnerbros.com) have been pretty useless with info on this.
"As they say in China, 'Arrivederci'!"
*For the creation of the Golden Deuce Award.
That sucks. I, too, have no need for them, but figured they'd possibly maybe be useful in the future. Only, uh, you hit it right on the head. And given how they promote the hell out of digital copies, I figured they'd be permanent, but useable on only one iPod or phone or whatever.
Do people really want to watch movies on their fucking cell phones?
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anarky wrote:And given how they promote the hell out of digital copies, I figured they'd be permanent, but useable on only one iPod or phone or whatever.
That'd be way too easy and convenient and would make people happy.
anarky wrote:Do people really want to watch movies on their fucking cell phones?
I can think of a few times I could have used something to keep me occupied (boring classes, weddings, waiting for car repairs, waiting at the DMV, among others).
"As they say in China, 'Arrivederci'!"
*For the creation of the Golden Deuce Award.
I received a "digtal copy" of 300, with the 2 disc set that I purchased at WM, in July I believe. It said the offer expired at the end of 2007, in December IIRC, so I went to the site to get it right before the expiration date and it was no longer available. Expecting to be SOL (even though I was before the exp. date) and much to my surprise, WM sent me a $5 Giftcard in the mail, which I received in a couple of weeks. Other than that, I have no experience with them.
I thought the Digital Copy was just a digital version of the film that you could download and store on your hard drive and play on your PC and/or transfer it to your iPod, or portable media player, or whatever, in .avi, .wmv, .mov or some other format like that. And the only thing that expired was the offer to download one, which makes sense to me; you know, like a coupon.
But I am not sure, this is just what I thought/expected a digital copy to be.
"Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery."
That article mentions the new style of copying the movie off a bonus DVD and storing it on your PC. It also mentions how they experimented with 300 via Internet Downloads as well.
"Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery."
Even if it is only available to download to your pc for a limited time it presents another problem: If I want to use it at some point in the future, I need to put the movie on my computer before it expires and let it sit there, taking up memory.
"As they say in China, 'Arrivederci'!"
*For the creation of the Golden Deuce Award.
I noticed Wal-Mart has a bunch of older DVDs being re-released. Exactly the same, but now with Digital Copy WOOOO!! Oh, and they cost five bucks more now. What a bargain. again
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I tried using the digital copy of Blue Harvest on my new mp3 player and *sarcastic shocker* it didn't work. They won't play protected files. Another check in the "Pro" column for illegal downloading.
That means I can store these files on my computer to watch them, taking up memory which could be used for far better things, or I can turn 90 degrees and put the dvd into a dvd player.
So the video feature on my new mp3 player is pretty much only good for shit I download.
Like porn.
"As they say in China, 'Arrivederci'!"
*For the creation of the Golden Deuce Award.
I'll get an iPod when they realize there are kooks like me out there who want a shitload of memory and couldn't give a rat's ass about touch-screen technology or video. Just let me put about 1,000 CDs on the motherfucker and don't waste processor/memory or charge extra for the shit I won't use.
The big companies really do need to get their act together as far as agreeing on some sort of protection standard that every company can use, or drop it altogether.
*--For behavior unbecoming anyone, perpetrated in real time over an extended--AH, FUCK IT! MORE MALIBU, BITCHES!!
It's interesting that Wall-E only comes in single-disc or 3-disc editions. And that the third disc on the 3-disc version is the digital copy. Which must be activated within a year (I think). Especially interesting since it looks like it's in (more or less) eco-friendly packaging and is about Earth after an ecological disaster. I would've preferred not having an entire disc wasted by something I'll never use.
*--For behavior unbecoming anyone, perpetrated in real time over an extended--AH, FUCK IT! MORE MALIBU, BITCHES!!
Oh, and they cost five bucks more now. What a bargain. 