You do get to keep it. What he is saying is NOT true. If you purchase and download the movie in your iTunes library...you never lose it. However, if you do NOT purchase and download it and just watch it or rent it...then of course you are not going to own it. I know a guy who has over 1,500 movies in his digital library on iTunes and NOT 1 has been removed. I reached out to Apple and they have confirmed that you do not lose a movie that you have purchased in your library. If you do...for some odd reason. They will refund you as long as you have your receipt. iTunes is the better way to go for building your digital library because Apple is NOT going anywhere. Those other platforms like Vudu and others...I'm not so sure about.
Its even worse for audiobooks on iTunes. I had about 30 star wars audiobooks and when disney bought lucasfilm I lost all of them. Then they re relased the same audiobooks under Disney Lucasfilm and refused to even give anyone a discount on the re released ones. Really messed up as i spent a alot on those. The person at apple did feel bad and she was really nice and I think kinda was on my side about it and even though she couldnt get my audiobooks back gave me a 100 dollar credit to buy other stuff. But still did not make up for my collection as most of the audio books go between 25 and 45 depending if you want the abrigied or un abrigied. After that I stoped buying anything digital. Physcial media is something everyone should stick with. You are really at the mercy of the studios when you buy digital.
@@aaronmiller2020 I think Apple promised that they will allow you to play the movie you downloaded, even if they no longer have license for the movies. Beside,I don’t think removing drm is illegal anymore, so long as you’re only using the movies for personal use. Congress have renews and expands protections for fair use at some point near 2010. If owning drm-remove tool is illegal, company like Warner bros will probably sue the s**t out of website that are selling drm-remove tool which doesn’t happen.
I have purchased at least $2,000 on Vudu films! I have a huge Vudu library. Thank for this video. It makes sense, if you have any thoughts on how I can cove me are a little so that I do not lose all the movies and the money spent to buy them. I am admittedly a film fanatic and I am watching one of your videos thinking I should figure a way to download them onto my IMAC. I pissed not at you I have been worrying about taking aa huge loss on these movies... Anyway, take care , thank you , and I am going to continue watching your videos.
I just made the switch to physical because of censorship. They are pulling movies and episodes, as well as going in and censoring parts of movies. Fuck that. I'm an adult. I want to see the media I love, whether it offends other people or not. While they can edit re-releases, if the movie is already out there I can watch it and continue to watch it the way it's supposed to be presented
This must have changed. I own several movies in iTunes that are no longer available in the iTunes store yet they're still on my account and I'm still able to download them.
As a person who is deeply involved in my digital library you brought up some excellent points that I didn’t think of and now I’m going to keep my hardcopy collection. Thanks
So very true! I love all my physical media. Unfortunately the scene cutting already happened in Toy Story 2. They cut out a post credit scene with Stinky Pete with Barbie, because it was offensive... I even think it’s cut from the new physical release! Another worry of mine is that if I ever move to a different country, my digital collection might be completely unavailable... so that is where you really realize you do not own anything digital. On the other hand I really like that the physical releases come with digital codes! Very convenient to access my movies digitally if I want to. I hope they don’t stop doing that...
I only buy a physical copy of everything. CD, DVD, BluRay hell even VHS. Never understood the just own digital...especially when I hear someone complain that they can only put it on so many devices. I bought a few digital albums off iTunes but I immediately burned it to a CD. Then reimported it so it was no longer a protected file.
I've been doing digital movies for almost 20 years. My movie count is at 2464 currently and what you described has happened to me, but nowadays the way everything is becoming more linked through the providers it's resolved a lot of these issues. When you buy a movie through Movies Anywhere, you're issued a license through all the linked providers so if a provider does lose their license, then the movie would remain in the other providers. That being said, I haven't had much of an issue in 20 years. I had more problems with people borrowing movies and not returning them. Also, I had issues insuring my full library when I went physical. Don't get me started on actually looking for a movie when you want to watch it on physical when you have over 600 titles.
Very informative! I have suspected this for a while as well. Also, digital is compressed as compared to a 4K Blu-ray. People with Home Theatre systems, like me, notice a difference in sound and picture quality.
Cal D true , because Blu-ray has much better sound quality than movies purchased on iTunes , I have noticed this difference, movies purchased on I tunes are quiet than blue rays
I have Home Theater system and I don't hear a difference at all. I guess you have to be an audiophile person(which I am not and very FEW people are) or have dog ears to hear it...which I'm not either.
@@Actionjac1 hey if that works for you. Clearly they made Dolby True HD and DTS MA for a reason. But if you can’t notice then by all means stick to it. Bass is night and day IMO
If this is Really True of what your saying then Maybe Physical Movie's is a Better way to Go then, Digital Movie's is a wasted of Money and a wasted of Time if what your saying is True
I know you don't technically own digital movies but on Vudu I've never lost the ability to watch any movie in my collection over distribution rights. I've been collecting digitally for almost four years and have quite a large collection. Even when Vudu loses the rights to sell a movie it's still in my collection and I can still watch it. iTunes is a different story, I've heard stories of people losing movies on there periodically. They must have a different contract with studios or something.
@@crystianbarriga3801 @Don H. I've just realised that a classic cartoon favourite of mine that I purchased off iTunes a few years ago is now no longer to buy on the iTunes(UK) store. I only found this out by having a check to make sure I had the complete series. Anyway, I'm still able to stream them. Thankfully, I downloaded them all at the time of purchase so I have backups but the point I'm making here is that despite no longer being on iTunes, I can still stream the episodes if I want to rather than watching one on my PC that's on the Hard Drive.
I've had a digital movie account from way back to when they're ultra voilet/ flixster movies since 2013 and I still have them thru and thru to this day.
I commented on here before but I was just wondering if somehow a digital retailer pulled a movie off of their platform, could a person request a refund because to me it would be shitty if they didn't. Also, another thing to note is nobody spends a second reading their stupid terms of use and policies. The way I see it, if they refuse to give you a refund or physical copy then you could sue them for theft of the money that you work for. I have 400 digital movies. I'm not spending money to have them take my money with nothing in return if this ever does happen. That's a lot of fucking money I spent on digital movies. Recently, I've been buying a lot of blurays and DVDs which are actually cheaper plus I can actually keep them forever.
My recommendation would be to be wary of Disney and Apple, they tend to be greedy and are usually the ones that pull movies. Stick with vudu and other studios. Buy Disney movies (Marvel) on physical media but get the digital copy as a backup.
Dude I can't believe I can't watch any of my movies at all or the best I can get is only SD when I own UHD when trying to watch using any web browser on PC.. its literally impossible to watch in HD or above on PC and it says it works on edge browser, but it lies!! My android TV won't even stream VUDU anymore and I think the only way you can watch this anymore is through a Smart TV or Phone.. Movies anywhere my A#$ this is the stupidest sht ever.. Why have I been amassing a collection of digital movies if i can't even view them anymore on the devices i want. This is so dumb.. I can't believe more people aren't enraged about this.
Thank you! I was always afraid to go digital only cause what if I lose them somehow! So I always buy physical but still Type the digital to it on Vudu! So I do both but I would never pay the same price for a digital only movie that a physical movie costs! It’s not worth it!
I only buy digital. Never had a problem, but I only go through Microsoft and VUDU. Did for years. Physicals can get destroyed, stolen,lost,and warped. Not to mention the clutter. And those stupid cheap ass cases.
Thanks for your video. Music and Music Videos went off my iTunes account. I contacted apple and they did refund me, however, I've read many stories that others haven't been refunded :(
Time for a new Vid buddy,,, you do own then, as long as you download and save the file,, even if ITunes goes broke, they would have to give you a free player, or face class action,,, Whats to stop them,,, Lawyers ,,
Here in the Philippines, owning a legitimate physical copy of a movie is long gone. DVD kiosk and Record Bars are now closed. Thanks to the internet, many Filipinos are now watching movies either on legitimate Streaming services, illegal torrent or purchasing movie on Google Play or iTunes. Yes piracy is still a thing here. Owning a Physical DVD is now Difficult. I already have three Digital movies on Google Play. Concerned now is I don't know how long will it last.
Dude I bought them. They should be mine. The digital copy of it or whatever. I am not high tech. I bet you guessed that. lol. This is capitalism at its finest. bleep bleeping bleepers.
It’s strange because iTunes lost the distribution rights to a show in my collection. You can’t find it in their store but in my collection I can still play it. It’s really strange.
For the last week,i was on the phone+email with vudu support about several dozen digital movies valued at about $350 were taken and deleted from my digital collection.(i thought it would be better than the physical copy.).they kept replying that if i did not have proof or purchase them though the walmart istawatch,they had the right to take them away so why did they refuse the download immediately so i could stop my purchase(i used to buy some titles through 'gameflip').not only were my download digitals deleted,i have lost hundreds of dollars.no more purchases will be made by me now!
Wow! I had NO IDEA. They could just delete my library like nothing. I got a question, I am sure your aware that ULTRAVIOLET was cancelled/closed. I had some from my physical DVD and also a code, and it just didn't transfer to VUDU. Do you have any idea why some movies from ULTRAVIOLET doesn't sync with VUDU. Thanks! for that. I made the mistake of buying one digital DVD on VUDU (not going to do that any more) also, did the mayor mistake doing the Disc to Digital for $2.00 each physical movie I had (like 16) didn't see this video until now. So, But, no more digital for me. I had no idea... THIS BLOWS MY MIND AWAY.
They removed stinky pete outtakes in Toy Story 2 on the 4k version because they said it was offensive after John Lasseter left, but I have the old 2013 blu-ray which still has it!
I wanted to go digital with my dvds+blu rays because they were 'bulky'to store+sometimes they stick or skip in my player.the only thing is i notice that vudu is slowly making the movies that i bought digitally or converted to digital--disappear from my collection.i have notified them of my problem but no reply yet.i am not going to purchase any more digitals until this problem is settled.i guess you do not really own them 😞
I’m a movie lover and can watch the same movie over and over. Can you make a video on how to fill an external hard drive with movies to actually keep ourselves? Like an easy how to.
Here's a little secret. Even if you buy a physical copy of digital media, you don't own the movie or album or whatever. You own a license to use it. Same way digital copies work.
The dvds have expiring ingredients and after about 8 years they start to mess up. So you own the dvd you bought but you only own it until it starts messing up then its gone forever unless the studio feels like putting it back into rotation because like any fair businesses they have to file for each individual movie titles that they claim losses on so why would they want to put open businesses again on the same titles. Maybe youll buy it again maybe not......but nothing last forever lol.....also DOWNLOAD EVERYTHING AND TAKE CARE OF IT AND IT WILL LAST YOUR MONIES WORTH. The digital vendors were made for downloadphiles.So choose your path wisley.
also who really knows how much it would cost really to make a movie the get approved for a ridiculous budget to pay like 3 or 4 main characters 7-8 grand plus everything is CGI now half of the crazy effect movies are done on computer but they get a budget of 9 million to make a movie where does the rest of the money go those dvds well there are pennies to make and they already own the master film too so thats all profit when they turn around and sell them so where does someone get approved to make a 9million dollar movie and while it is still in theaters it makes world wide 75 million before it even comes out on dvds or digital....not all movies made get that kind of turn around so there has to be some loss i know you dont get approved to flop your movie but here is 9 million anyway lol
@Mike P yup unless they make a dvd player with a cooling system because when those ingredients expire and then you expose your dvd to heat even by playing them they get warm it will then warp the data on the disc.
@Mike P alot of work, and data caps also you loose an extra layer of protection unless you set it up your nas and router correctly but then people that have worked for all those companies would know how to breach your content even your isp. whats confusing too is that when a digital vendor doesnt have the content available anymore. Your able to download or stream it when it is available, not to mention you have a receipt that you have purchased ownership of that same copy they were allowed to have on thier servers when you downloaded it. Now instead of only being able to play it in thier app or player only as soon as they loose those rights to your purchased content but you have it downloaded on a device you should be able to play that title however and in whatever media player that supports that format and codec and you still can keep the protection you paid for when you first bought it and downloadd it. Also, if a digital vendor can setup a One world super Nas system that keeps track of what you have downloaded from your purchased content then that same company should have a seperate nas connected to a virtual nas system that virtually creates a shortcut to where your original download content is housed (through the company you made the purchase from) and so if they loose thier rights, for example between the studios and digital vendors, to sell it or have available to stream it at least we still have a place to go back if we downloaded it in the past and be able to redownload from this location from a consumer standpoint that sounds reasonable and fair. If a company cant afford that kind of set up then your SOL, just take care of what you download and download your stuff asap. The way its setup like you said expensive longterm renting for the non downloading parties speaking digitally it would take money for them to make money but why wont the original owners (studios) that paid to have the movie made and built do this kind of service themselves. kind of funny how they have to add so ma ny middle men between them and thier digital businesses and then also right terms and conditions that help them keep making money for longterms in the future with something as a home made 🎪 circus (entertainment) in our living rooms. Studios only paid to have it made the studios are not the circus themselves.
Cool video dude that's why I only use VUDU for my digitals iTunes loss's the right's once Vudu loss the right's to sell it never leave's your collection
I've had movies I've purchased on iTunes that were removed from the store but have never left my account. ITunes upgrades my HD collection to 4k for free. They add new special features to my purchases for free. For example I bought Mad Max Fury Road, later they released a Black & Chrome edition on Blu Ray. Everything on that Blu Ray was added to my digital purchase for free. I love digital, I have all my films downloaded and backed up to other hard drives on the off chance they are ever removed, something that has never happened to myself for any digital purchase I've made.
@@numptyur physical is still better. Artwork and everything. I would keep everything backed up with a backup to your hard drive. It's only a matter of time.
Physical copies is not foolproof either Bought VHS, player broke - all those programs I recorded years ago are on TH-cam so that was wasted time Bought DVDs, player broke Bought Blu-Ray & 4K, new technologies will make those obsolete eventually Converted Disc to Digital, as you say, they can expire eventually Even if you download digital copies, you need software or the services that could make it unplayable We've all been robbed several times Books are the only things I have left in my library that won't depend on another device to enjoy
Really your blu ray player and dvd player broke I've had mine for 6 or more years and there better than ever plus if one breaks I have 3 other blu ray players. Theb another 3 dvd players. If you've been robbed that's bad but for me I keep my movies locked up in the basement. I live in a pretty safe neighborhood to
@@Dreyz-pg2zz broke = outdated. Newer Blu Rays require updated firmware & some brands stop after a certain point to force you to buy a new machine so either that newer disc won't play or get a new player; just another ploy for you to spend. "Robbed" as in these companies will find ways for you to keep buying the same titles i.e. I have Star Wars in VHS, upgraded to DVD, then Blu Ray all for nothing as it's all at Disney + and God knows what's in the future
You got it backwards. You said you had a player for more than 6 years "plus if one breaks I have 3 other blu ray players. Theb another 3 dvd players" because when you purchased your blu ray discs you couldn't play blu ray on a DVD machine so you had to upgrade your machine to accommodate the blu-rays. If you buy 4K or whatever the next technology will be, your existing machines won't play those new disc. So sounds like you also had (at least 3) DVD machines that "broke/outdated" & couldn't play the newest blu ray disc just like VHS players are getting harder to find making that technology go the way of cassettes & 8-tracks.
@@patimuse ok so I have 3 backup blu ray players and 3 back up dvd players. I'm gonna stick with blu ray and dvd for the next like 5 or 8 years. I might go start getting 4k. I like dvd because theres movies there that haven't been released on blu ray. I like blu ray for the quality.
Vudu has a log of anything you have ever purchased or redeemed, come on you conspiracy people you movies are safe. I found movies in this history log going back 15yrs ago. The log is available through the web site under purchase history. Relax your movies are safe.
Some studios such Paramount, MGM and a few other studios do not participate with Movies Anywhere so their movies and TV shows will not migrate over to Fandango or Itunes from VUDU, even if all your digital accounts are linked with Movies Anywhere.
This is why I don't buy digital video or audio, and now no games. Sick of the constant scam trying to get you to pay more cash and how easily you can lose things you have paid for.
I get people all the time that see our movie collection and ask why we just don't go digital. It's bad enough PC games are all digital now and with every ISP having data caps, all digital is a win for them.
Lithonion1 I’ve never had a data cap on my home internet lol I buy digital movies and TV shows all the time. I have movies and shows that are no longer on the iTunes Store. I didn’t lose them. I can stream them right now. This concept of losing your content, in my experience, just isn’t true
Bailey, first not all Internet is the same. While you may not hit data caps, their are plenty of people that have either low coverage areas or just plain crap Internet. Second, you don’t own any digital content, not really. It even states in the terms of service of any digital provider that they have the right to terminate the uses of such content at any time. th-cam.com/video/mP7ZNbu9aDA/w-d-xo.html
I bought a Blu ray of Terminator Genisys at Big lots today and it had a second disc of Terminator inside. Terminator Genisys had a digital code that stated may not be valid after 11/10/2017. Tried it on Vudu and it worked.!! If Vudu ever goes down thats probably it for the streaming movie industry. I remember when Flixster and CenimaNow went the way of the Dinosaur and Onlive did for gaming.
Unfortunately, that is the biggest mistake people make when purchasing movies. They see the expiration date and throw away the code. I've been a movie collector for 3 years now, and I noticed that every digital code no matter the expiration date still works.
I used to to think the exact thing tbh. But recently I’ve gotten rid of all my physical media except series box sets, in exchange for iTunes versions of movies, which offer all the extra features in their original quality and not compressed into a DVD, but I also have streaming services that let me pick any show I want to watch.
He is right. I purchased WWE summerslam 2014 on Google play the first time it was released. And now 2020 it was removed after playing 15 bucks. And i been buying digital for years and now i regret it and i have 600 digital copies. Im going too have too find the disc. And i just got joker on Amazon prime digital only. Now im thinking of getting the disc
I got lazy a few years back. Bought Alias, Xfiles, Fringe. Smallville on Xbox. They look great but when they stopped their music site I got a little worried they may do the same with Digital. May be time to buy a big hard drive.
It's good to know, I've been a physical buyer for a long time bought movies 3-4 times of different formats of the same movies over the years as well as a gamer of Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft. I'm getting older and just can't deal with the clutter, space and time with my physical library growing every month where it's overtaking my house looking like an archive vault of movies and games from years back when DVD first started looking like I'm a hoarder or something.
Man, this sucks bruh... There was this old concert from 2010 of one of my favorite bands. The only place I could watch it on / buy a digital copy on were Itunes and Amazon/Stingray Qello or something. I've been looking for a day straight for a way to convert this m4v file / record my screen, both have failed. This world is going to hell men... The worst thing about stuff like this is that when a movie is then removed from a service, it's gone from the public eye. Maybe a small amount of data holders have that piece of media in their databases but you can't get it anymore publicly.
That’s ilegal,doesn’t make sense that your money would just be waisted that’s a big lawsuit bro it even says “you own hDx or UHD not renting or limited time etc..
I do think that these big companies should at least let people know when they are taking your movies off and should give you a free refund or a movie for about the same price but that is my opinion I do buy more movies digital only because I got a small apartment
I mainly use Vudu because of early access and the ability to watch my movies literally anywhere. But I use this for my comics. Huge nerd when it comes to that. I recently noticed all my 4K movies on my account are no longer in 4K. Has anyone else noticed this. We’re paying for these movies and they are slowly disappearing from our libraries.
iTunes or now called TV App still offers very poor Quality, if you download it even gets much worse. For example. "The nice Guys" has 384kbit Audio, quit bad, if you download you get.... 92kbit. We have 2020 and not 1980. Thats not acceptable. That just sucks. so downloading will never be an option for me, even if i have 14TB of storage. you can not even download 4k movies, only an very poor 1080p version with around 4-5gb. Wow... I tested some movies on itunes, from 1080p to 4k with atmos etc. Its unbelievable bad quality if you own an 75" direct led screen and a 7.1 home cinema. I would not even buy those moives for 1$. i bought 4 movies to test, but did only watch two of them yet. They sound so horrible. I would realy love to dive into the digital world, but if quality matters for you, i have to stick to physical or at least buy and rip to iTunes with 640kbit. With that you get 1080p Movies look and sound 4 times better than any iTunes 4k movie. thats sure. The movies i bought in the store have about 18Mbit in 4k with 384 or even 164kbit Audio. All my Discs in iTunes has about 25Mbit and 640kbit Audio. Thats a loooot of difference.
After "buying" more digital movies than id like to admit I stopped cold turkey this year and only buy blurays now. I regret going digital. Zero resale value. Buyouts could cause you to lose your "copy". Streaming quality is less than physical.
Dude!!!! That happened to one of my movies on Vudu! I think it was on one of my X-men movies that I had redeemed the digital copy years ago from a DVD so the format was on SD, now it's in UHD and some special edition. A "free" upgrade? But yeah, I agree with you, ALWAYS BUY PHYSICAL COPIES OF YOUR MOVIES/TV, VIDEO GAMES, AND MUSIC PEOPLE!!!!
So, all the “I LOVE the convenience of DIGITAL FILMS” crowd, I guess the jokes on you after all.....I have been preaching it for years now: BUY PHYSICAL MEDIA, and stop encouraging them to continue down that path.
I just came across a technicality that says your TH-cam locker of purchases is only viewable for up to 5 years. Which is kind of stupid. It's 2021 why can't I just own digital copies without downloading so I can view them on all devices. Discs and tapes are such a thing of the past.
I'm here because I just realize how disappointing these new movie digital codes are. I bought the CD excited that I'll have a copy on my computer forever, but no it requires a subscription to watch it on another app! This sucks... You're voice was down so low but then your intro music was blasting.
The same thing happened in the UK. BlinkBox was a digital provider for movies/tv shows, but after just a few years the company was sold to TalkTalk (broadband provider) TV who renamed the business (#same name - TalkTalk TV), and then about a year later the company was sold off again to WuakiTV,. This brought around a situation where all the movies I owned with BlinkBox/TalkTalkTV (John Wick, John Wick 2, Jurassic World, Game of Thrones - season 6/7, etc.) are now completely dead and inaccessible to myself because WaukiTV totally sucks and lost all my previously bought stuff. This is why I personally fell in love with physical media again after many years and am now an avid collector of blu-ray and steelbook movies. If your careful when purchasing physical movies then you can ensure before buying that they come with digital codes so that you get the best of both worlds, physical for watching movies at home, and digital codes for watching movies on the go. That’s why I shop around when buying blu-rays/4K blu-rays/steelbooks, and physical media (especially movies) is definitely the way to go moving forward. Thanks for the telling video. Truly good stuff, as always.
I just learn of this , just order a Blu ray Player f that bs... This why Apple didnt want to do a sony Blu ray contract. Apple said it would cost to much money to have Blu ray drive in mac. My Mac Pro has a Blu ray, I’m so piss that brought 378 movies .needs how to download them and safe keep them
I'm guessing it's illegal to copy them to disc, then. My bad experience was when I migrated music out of iTunes. Those filles had the ends chopped off.
Great video. Regarding editing movies. Kanye West has edited his albums on Tidal, so the Tidal album has a different track order, and some mixes are different. Its only a matter of time before the same happens with movies. Heck the only way to see the original Star Wars: A New Hope is to dig out the Laser Disc and VHS versions.
With regards to editing, it's also happening with digital books such as what you would read on Kindle. This is mostly material that nowadays is considered not politically correct in todays Snowflake-don't hurt my feelings, times. Very sad state of affairs indeed.
physical media is 4-ever with me, i do like digital as well but i looks everytime in the week if it's all there but digital not being ours it does hurt really bad those companies just getting off us that's all yes i am with physical media always have been of my 80 titles of films and since the VHS days, i do enjoy both i may need the external device for a permanent stay why they put out dvd drive i do not know, i wn't pay no other stream devices ever,
Thank you for The information I will never buy digital forms of entertainment/Apps because you’re guaranteed that you’re going to get screwed eventually.
If I don’t own them....I don’t buy them. I even subscribe to Audible but with means and ways of having my own digital drm free copy of them. If I couldn’t do that, I wouldn’t be a member.
I agree with what you are saying. I’m sure new laws will come into effect like everything else it’s getting harder to get physical movies. Best Buy has gazed out cds
This this is anything including even if it says on the movie because you've literally until you run out of space they need to be called out for it because it's actually false advertisement which is my own physical copies I've been saying this since the beginning if they did a cloud storage that might be possible but none of these companies do that that would have been much more smarter I'll stick to my copies
He's NOT stating all the facts! Downloading is going to replace physical media just as streaming music did to CD's. Just wait. That's why Best Buy will STOP selling movies as of 1/2024. They are losing money. Why do you think that is? I'll let you think about it.
It’s even worse no I had a bunch of my movies downloaded and all and now there’s a bunch missing it’s still available but now it’s asking my to buy it even though I already did and had it downloaded still ended up missing
That’s never going to happen you know how much money they are getting people that buy Digital who you think getting all that money Big Business why wouldn’t they have the distribution rights they are making big money they both are making money
I figuered this was the case. On PC games, I stick with GOG. All games are DRM-Free. You buy it, you own it. As for Movies,I buy only Physical. I then make a digital backup.
Thank you very much for the very helpful video I have considered this very thing because I’ve had trouble with Apple before locking movies up that I have bought because I forgot a payment That I owed them after watching this video I have decided to buy a Blu-ray player and go that route thanks so much for your advice and the video
A couple of discs in my dads movie collection got scratched to the point over the years that no DvD player would read it so i bought the digital versions and havent had a problem one (yet) i want to get a drive and store his and my movies on to be on the safer side of the fence
Bro you owe nothing in life. Things come and goes. Same thing with physical media if they stop making copy those movies you love. When you lose them you just can’t get it back
UltraViolet is closing their doors at the end of July 2019! Which will be a pain! because now my movies will be scattered over FandangoNow, MoviesAnywhere, Amazon, Google Play, and VUDU! An it also made me stop and think, if UltraViolet is shutting down for good, then how long before they all do? That means the Thousands of dollars I have spent, buying TV shows/Movies, will go down the drain without a thing to show for it! The reason I did it in the first place was the same reason a lot of people do, because we are to lazy to find a DVD/Blu Ray put it in, when with streaming we just push a button, and we have what we want to watch. Sure there is hard drives , but they don't make them like they use to and over time the picture gets corrupt, so that's out. I knew something was up when Sony Pictures Store was shutting down, then UltraViolet was next! If they all shut down, and they don't give a refund for purchased content which it does say You own on VUDU, either SD or HDX or UHD! I see a big world lawsuit! Regards!
That would be major a class action lawsuit. Congress would also get involved, mark my words. Movie studios would come under fire. It would be just like the gift certificate laws that passed. Purchases can't be revoked or expire.
Pros and cons. You get robbed or house-fire your physical copies are gone forever too. But very good points made here too. I think I’m gonna start making physical copies now. Thanks for the vid!
this is why physical media is so important you preserve movies in it's purest form Digital and streaming you never own and are unreliable if you really love a movie or tv show buy the physical copy you have it forever as long as you take good care of it
I always buy the discs that include the digital copies. That was I can watch movies on my iPad or phone, but I also own the physical disc so I can watch that (and just in case something happens to my digital copies)
I had purchased movies in rotten tomato, mgo, cineanow, flixster (non apple) and I still have all of them even after they went under. You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. You didn't own horrible bosses in 2012 on flixster, they never lost rights to that title. What you probably did was signed up on Facebook / google / email and went back to flixster with a different sign-in and thought you lost your title because you created a new account and forgot your original loggin
Incorrect but thanks for playing. Read the terms of service, your ownership “rights” are spelled out there. “What I probably did” is exactly what I said. If you think that you are 100% secured in your digital purchase rights, have fun with that.
Dude I just left a comment on a video saying you were nice. Then I’m watching a video about digital ownership and you go out of your way to insinuate that it wasn’t cool of Olivia Munn to call out a sex offender who she had to work with in a major film. You are gross and I don’t think you are a calm reasonable person. Because calm, reasonable people care about protecting women. Even pretty ones that make you feel insecure, buddy.
Honestly I lost more physical movies than I can remember we have thousands if I ever want to look for A movie it can take me up to 4 hours to finally find it or it’s just lost we used to buy about 15 movies A month for the last 10 years and we had a lot before that to begin with plus the sun ruins the discs if there left out or A single scratch and your movie is done we’ve been going digital since the pandemic and hardly any stores sell movies anymore.. it’s like A dying breed..
I have become aware of this recently and I am trying to download as much of my digital as I can. The kicker to it is that now that I have downloaded some movies I purchased (from Prime - the ones Prime will ALLOW me to anyway - and Vudu) I cannot locate the files on my hard drive. I want to make backups for the inevitable system crash.... Any suggestions? I am considering search utilities, but don't know which one would be best for this type of search. My OS is Windows 10.
There needs to be a new law that states if you pay for a God damn movie, you get to keep it.
I absolutely agree with You
Do you get your money back? I’m assuming not
@@ATyler-ty4zb Nope. They can disappear and they’ll just tell you sorry for the inconvenience.
and the same goes for digital video games too.
You do get to keep it. What he is saying is NOT true. If you purchase and download the movie in your iTunes library...you never lose it. However, if you do NOT purchase and download it and just watch it or rent it...then of course you are not going to own it. I know a guy who has over 1,500 movies in his digital library on iTunes and NOT 1 has been removed. I reached out to Apple and they have confirmed that you do not lose a movie that you have purchased in your library. If you do...for some odd reason. They will refund you as long as you have your receipt. iTunes is the better way to go for building your digital library because Apple is NOT going anywhere. Those other platforms like Vudu and others...I'm not so sure about.
That’s why I buy the physical copy with the digital code so I have both
Same
There you go
Same here Just got that Scarface 4K Greatness.
exactly
Same
Its even worse for audiobooks on iTunes. I had about 30 star wars audiobooks and when disney bought lucasfilm I lost all of them. Then they re relased the same audiobooks under Disney Lucasfilm and refused to even give anyone a discount on the re released ones. Really messed up as i spent a alot on those. The person at apple did feel bad and she was really nice and I think kinda was on my side about it and even though she couldnt get my audiobooks back gave me a 100 dollar credit to buy other stuff. But still did not make up for my collection as most of the audio books go between 25 and 45 depending if you want the abrigied or un abrigied. After that I stoped buying anything digital. Physcial media is something everyone should stick with. You are really at the mercy of the studios when you buy digital.
There are ways to fully store them on your device so if they get removed from iTunes you still have them
@@JoshCouldPlayz it requires a drm remover which is illegal
That's why piracy will always reign
@@aaronmiller2020 and removing content he bought and not providing it after it was re-released is legal?
@@aaronmiller2020 I think Apple promised that they will allow you to play the movie you downloaded, even if they no longer have license for the movies. Beside,I don’t think removing drm is illegal anymore, so long as you’re only using the movies for personal use. Congress have renews and expands protections for fair use at some point near 2010. If owning drm-remove tool is illegal, company like Warner bros will probably sue the s**t out of website that are selling drm-remove tool which doesn’t happen.
I have purchased at least $2,000 on Vudu films! I have a huge Vudu library. Thank for this video. It makes sense, if you have any thoughts on how I can cove me are a little so that I do not lose all the movies and the money spent to buy them. I am admittedly a film fanatic and I am watching one of your videos thinking I should figure a way to download them onto my IMAC. I pissed not at you I have been worrying about taking aa huge loss on these movies... Anyway, take care , thank you , and I am going to continue watching your videos.
This is why I still purchase and prefer the physical copy of games, movies, TV shows.
I just made the switch to physical because of censorship. They are pulling movies and episodes, as well as going in and censoring parts of movies. Fuck that. I'm an adult. I want to see the media I love, whether it offends other people or not. While they can edit re-releases, if the movie is already out there I can watch it and continue to watch it the way it's supposed to be presented
This must have changed. I own several movies in iTunes that are no longer available in the iTunes store yet they're still on my account and I'm still able to download them.
I wonder if it's the same thing with Google Play?
As a person who is deeply involved in my digital library you brought up some excellent points that I didn’t think of and now I’m going to keep my hardcopy collection. Thanks
So very true! I love all my physical media.
Unfortunately the scene cutting already happened in Toy Story 2. They cut out a post credit scene with Stinky Pete with Barbie, because it was offensive... I even think it’s cut from the new physical release!
Another worry of mine is that if I ever move to a different country, my digital collection might be completely unavailable... so that is where you really realize you do not own anything digital.
On the other hand I really like that the physical releases come with digital codes! Very convenient to access my movies digitally if I want to. I hope they don’t stop doing that...
I only buy a physical copy of everything. CD, DVD, BluRay hell even VHS. Never understood the just own digital...especially when I hear someone complain that they can only put it on so many devices. I bought a few digital albums off iTunes but I immediately burned it to a CD. Then reimported it so it was no longer a protected file.
I hate DRM.
You bought aac audio (lossy) files then burned them to a cd: this makes them unprotected but the quality of the music is worse than the standard cd
I've been doing digital movies for almost 20 years. My movie count is at 2464 currently and what you described has happened to me, but nowadays the way everything is becoming more linked through the providers it's resolved a lot of these issues. When you buy a movie through Movies Anywhere, you're issued a license through all the linked providers so if a provider does lose their license, then the movie would remain in the other providers. That being said, I haven't had much of an issue in 20 years. I had more problems with people borrowing movies and not returning them. Also, I had issues insuring my full library when I went physical. Don't get me started on actually looking for a movie when you want to watch it on physical when you have over 600 titles.
You cant even download 4k movies in iTunes, pointless. Physical all the way. Thanks for making this video. People have no clue most of the time.
Very informative! I have suspected this for a while as well. Also, digital is compressed as compared to a 4K Blu-ray. People with Home Theatre systems, like me, notice a difference in sound and picture quality.
Their is definitely a difference, even if someone has outstanding Internet the quality just can’t beat physical media.
The vudu app doesn't let you watch in 1080p on phones. A complete rip off.
Cal D true , because Blu-ray has much better sound quality than movies purchased on iTunes , I have noticed this difference, movies purchased on I tunes are quiet than blue rays
I have Home Theater system and I don't hear a difference at all. I guess you have to be an audiophile person(which I am not and very FEW people are) or have dog ears to hear it...which I'm not either.
@@Actionjac1 hey if that works for you. Clearly they made Dolby True HD and DTS MA for a reason. But if you can’t notice then by all means stick to it. Bass is night and day IMO
I always buy the physical copy with digital copy.
I have downloaded movies to my phone from vudu. My phone was disconnected for two weeks and my movies were in my sd card.
If this is Really True of what your saying then Maybe Physical Movie's is a Better way to Go then, Digital Movie's is a wasted of Money and a wasted of Time if what your saying is True
I know you don't technically own digital movies but on Vudu I've never lost the ability to watch any movie in my collection over distribution rights. I've been collecting digitally for almost four years and have quite a large collection. Even when Vudu loses the rights to sell a movie it's still in my collection and I can still watch it. iTunes is a different story, I've heard stories of people losing movies on there periodically. They must have a different contract with studios or something.
Don H. The same I have a Vudu and I never lost my movie Collection
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@Don H.
I've just realised that a classic cartoon favourite of mine that I purchased off iTunes a few years ago is now no longer to buy on the iTunes(UK) store. I only found this out by having a check to make sure I had the complete series. Anyway, I'm still able to stream them. Thankfully, I downloaded them all at the time of purchase so I have backups but the point I'm making here is that despite no longer being on iTunes, I can still stream the episodes if I want to rather than watching one on my PC that's on the Hard Drive.
Same here lol i never lost one movie on Google Play or on my xbox. Its probably just a itunes thing
I've had a digital movie account from way back to when they're ultra voilet/ flixster movies since 2013 and I still have them thru and thru to this day.
I have NEVER lost a movie in Itunes.
I commented on here before but I was just wondering if somehow a digital retailer pulled a movie off of their platform, could a person request a refund because to me it would be shitty if they didn't. Also, another thing to note is nobody spends a second reading their stupid terms of use and policies. The way I see it, if they refuse to give you a refund or physical copy then you could sue them for theft of the money that you work for. I have 400 digital movies. I'm not spending money to have them take my money with nothing in return if this ever does happen. That's a lot of fucking money I spent on digital movies. Recently, I've been buying a lot of blurays and DVDs which are actually cheaper plus I can actually keep them forever.
My recommendation would be to be wary of Disney and Apple, they tend to be greedy and are usually the ones that pull movies. Stick with vudu and other studios. Buy Disney movies (Marvel) on physical media but get the digital copy as a backup.
As a backup?
So I had a digital code and I redeemed it in ITunes and it’s missing
Dude I can't believe I can't watch any of my movies at all or the best I can get is only SD when I own UHD when trying to watch using any web browser on PC.. its literally impossible to watch in HD or above on PC and it says it works on edge browser, but it lies!! My android TV won't even stream VUDU anymore and I think the only way you can watch this anymore is through a Smart TV or Phone.. Movies anywhere my A#$ this is the stupidest sht ever.. Why have I been amassing a collection of digital movies if i can't even view them anymore on the devices i want. This is so dumb.. I can't believe more people aren't enraged about this.
Thank you! I was always afraid to go digital only cause what if I lose them somehow! So I always buy physical but still Type the digital to it on Vudu! So I do both but I would never pay the same price for a digital only movie that a physical movie costs! It’s not worth it!
I only buy digital. Never had a problem, but I only go through Microsoft and VUDU. Did for years. Physicals can get destroyed, stolen,lost,and warped. Not to mention the clutter.
And those stupid cheap ass cases.
Thanks for your video. Music and Music Videos went off my iTunes account. I contacted apple and they did refund me, however, I've read many stories that others haven't been refunded :(
Greatest horror / crime movie ever.
Waking up and not seeing what you paid for. Legal robbery.
Andrew Kerslake Wow, you were actually refunded? Not asking exact numbers, but was it more than double digits? That’s shocking.
Time for a new Vid buddy,,, you do own then, as long as you download and save the file,, even if ITunes goes broke, they would have to give you a free player, or face class action,,, Whats to stop them,,, Lawyers ,,
Here in the Philippines, owning a legitimate physical copy of a movie is long gone. DVD kiosk and Record Bars are now closed. Thanks to the internet, many Filipinos are now watching movies either on legitimate Streaming services, illegal torrent or purchasing movie on Google Play or iTunes. Yes piracy is still a thing here. Owning a Physical DVD is now Difficult. I already have three Digital movies on Google Play. Concerned now is I don't know how long will it last.
Dude I bought them. They should be mine. The digital copy of it or whatever. I am not high tech. I bet you guessed that. lol. This is capitalism at its finest. bleep bleeping bleepers.
It’s strange because iTunes lost the distribution rights to a show in my collection. You can’t find it in their store but in my collection I can still play it. It’s really strange.
It's happened with hundreds of titles in my collection. Still own them all
For the last week,i was on the phone+email with vudu support about several dozen digital movies valued at about $350 were taken and deleted from my digital collection.(i thought it would be better than the physical copy.).they kept replying that if i did not have proof or purchase them though the walmart istawatch,they had the right to take them away so why did they refuse the download immediately so i could stop my purchase(i used to buy some titles through 'gameflip').not only were my download digitals deleted,i have lost hundreds of dollars.no more purchases will be made by me now!
Wow! I had NO IDEA. They could just delete my library like nothing. I got a question, I am sure your aware that ULTRAVIOLET was cancelled/closed. I had some from my physical DVD and also a code, and it just didn't transfer to VUDU. Do you have any idea why some movies from ULTRAVIOLET doesn't sync with VUDU. Thanks! for that. I made the mistake of buying one digital DVD on VUDU (not going to do that any more) also, did the mayor mistake doing the Disc to Digital for $2.00 each physical movie I had (like 16) didn't see this video until now. So, But, no more digital for me. I had no idea... THIS BLOWS MY MIND AWAY.
The allowed time to port over has elapsed so I’m not sure at this point if you can recover anything.
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U don't make sense. I know of this
But ur not explaining it correctly
Thank you so much for this. I never knew this and this is very helpful.
They removed stinky pete outtakes in Toy Story 2 on the 4k version because they said it was offensive after John Lasseter left, but I have the old 2013 blu-ray which still has it!
I wanted to go digital with my dvds+blu rays because they were 'bulky'to store+sometimes they stick or skip in my player.the only thing is i notice that vudu is slowly making the movies that i bought digitally or converted to digital--disappear from my collection.i have notified them of my problem but no reply yet.i am not going to purchase any more digitals until this problem is settled.i guess you do not really own them 😞
I’m a movie lover and can watch the same movie over and over. Can you make a video on how to fill an external hard drive with movies to actually keep ourselves? Like an easy how to.
Here's a little secret. Even if you buy a physical copy of digital media, you don't own the movie or album or whatever. You own a license to use it. Same way digital copies work.
The dvds have expiring ingredients and after about 8 years they start to mess up. So you own the dvd you bought but you only own it until it starts messing up then its gone forever unless the studio feels like putting it back into rotation because like any fair businesses they have to file for each individual movie titles that they claim losses on so why would they want to put open businesses again on the same titles. Maybe youll buy it again maybe not......but nothing last forever lol.....also DOWNLOAD EVERYTHING AND TAKE CARE OF IT AND IT WILL LAST YOUR MONIES WORTH. The digital vendors were made for downloadphiles.So choose your path wisley.
also who really knows how much it would cost really to make a movie the get approved for a ridiculous budget to pay like 3 or 4 main characters 7-8 grand plus everything is CGI now half of the crazy effect movies are done on computer but they get a budget of 9 million to make a movie where does the rest of the money go those dvds well there are pennies to make and they already own the master film too so thats all profit when they turn around and sell them so where does someone get approved to make a 9million dollar movie and while it is still in theaters it makes world wide 75 million before it even comes out on dvds or digital....not all movies made get that kind of turn around so there has to be some loss i know you dont get approved to flop your movie but here is 9 million anyway lol
@Mike P yup unless they make a dvd player with a cooling system because when those ingredients expire and then you expose your dvd to heat even by playing them they get warm it will then warp the data on the disc.
@Mike P alot of work, and data caps also you loose an extra layer of protection unless you set it up your nas and router correctly but then people that have worked for all those companies would know how to breach your content even your isp. whats confusing too is that when a digital vendor doesnt have the content available anymore. Your able to download or stream it when it is available, not to mention you have a receipt that you have purchased ownership of that same copy they were allowed to have on thier servers when you downloaded it. Now instead of only being able to play it in thier app or player only as soon as they loose those rights to your purchased content but you have it downloaded on a device you should be able to play that title however and in whatever media player that supports that format and codec and you still can keep the protection you paid for when you first bought it and downloadd it. Also, if a digital vendor can setup a One world super Nas system that keeps track of what you have downloaded from your purchased content then that same company should have a seperate nas connected to a virtual nas system that virtually creates a shortcut to where your original download content is housed (through the company you made the purchase from) and so if they loose thier rights, for example between the studios and digital vendors, to sell it or have available to stream it at least we still have a place to go back if we downloaded it in the past and be able to redownload from this location from a consumer standpoint that sounds reasonable and fair. If a company cant afford that kind of set up then your SOL, just take care of what you download and download your stuff asap. The way its setup like you said expensive longterm renting for the non downloading parties speaking digitally it would take money for them to make money but why wont the original owners (studios) that paid to have the movie made and built do this kind of service themselves. kind of funny how they have to add so ma ny middle men between them and thier digital businesses and then also right terms and conditions that help them keep making money for longterms in the future with something as a home made 🎪 circus (entertainment) in our living rooms. Studios only paid to have it made the studios are not the circus themselves.
Cool video dude that's why I only use VUDU for my digitals iTunes loss's the right's once Vudu loss the right's to sell it never leave's your collection
I've had movies I've purchased on iTunes that were removed from the store but have never left my account.
ITunes upgrades my HD collection to 4k for free. They add new special features to my purchases for free. For example I bought Mad Max Fury Road, later they released a Black & Chrome edition on Blu Ray. Everything on that Blu Ray was added to my digital purchase for free. I love digital, I have all my films downloaded and backed up to other hard drives on the off chance they are ever removed, something that has never happened to myself for any digital purchase I've made.
@@numptyur physical is still better. Artwork and everything. I would keep everything backed up with a backup to your hard drive. It's only a matter of time.
@@numptyur and if your HDD crashes?
@@numptyur how do you put the iTunes movies on a external hard drive would love to know kinda regret going all Digital
Physical copies is not foolproof either
Bought VHS, player broke - all those programs I recorded years ago are on TH-cam so that was wasted time
Bought DVDs, player broke
Bought Blu-Ray & 4K, new technologies will make those obsolete eventually
Converted Disc to Digital, as you say, they can expire eventually
Even if you download digital copies, you need software or the services that could make it unplayable
We've all been robbed several times
Books are the only things I have left in my library that won't depend on another device to enjoy
Really your blu ray player and dvd player broke I've had mine for 6 or more years and there better than ever plus if one breaks I have 3 other blu ray players. Theb another 3 dvd players. If you've been robbed that's bad but for me I keep my movies locked up in the basement. I live in a pretty safe neighborhood to
@@Dreyz-pg2zz broke = outdated. Newer Blu Rays require updated firmware & some brands stop after a certain point to force you to buy a new machine so either that newer disc won't play or get a new player; just another ploy for you to spend. "Robbed" as in these companies will find ways for you to keep buying the same titles i.e. I have Star Wars in VHS, upgraded to DVD, then Blu Ray all for nothing as it's all at Disney + and God knows what's in the future
@@patimuse um no it doesnt. I just buy blu Ray's and DVDs I've been doing this for years. They cant change the player for the disc to stop working.
You got it backwards. You said you had a player for more than 6 years "plus if one breaks I have 3 other blu ray players. Theb another 3 dvd players" because when you purchased your blu ray discs you couldn't play blu ray on a DVD machine so you had to upgrade your machine to accommodate the blu-rays. If you buy 4K or whatever the next technology will be, your existing machines won't play those new disc. So sounds like you also had (at least 3) DVD machines that "broke/outdated" & couldn't play the newest blu ray disc just like VHS players are getting harder to find making that technology go the way of cassettes & 8-tracks.
@@patimuse ok so I have 3 backup blu ray players and 3 back up dvd players. I'm gonna stick with blu ray and dvd for the next like 5 or 8 years. I might go start getting 4k. I like dvd because theres movies there that haven't been released on blu ray. I like blu ray for the quality.
Vudu has a log of anything you have ever purchased or redeemed, come on you conspiracy people you movies are safe. I found movies in this history log going back 15yrs ago. The log is available through the web site under purchase history. Relax your movies are safe.
Really man, I actually freaked out because ive spent time and effort to get movies digitally.
cause i probably did rent them 😂 i’ve had my movies that i bought since i was 11 on my apple id shit. and i’m 20 now. so yeah i do own them 🤭
I'm just now seeing this, but (I'm with you all the way)
Christ, it’s Kevin Owens 😦
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Just downloaded a few new digital TV shows on VUDU but they are not sharing on both iTunes and movie anywhere how do I fix that?
Some studios such Paramount, MGM and a few other studios do not participate with Movies Anywhere so their movies and TV shows will not migrate over to Fandango or Itunes from VUDU, even if all your digital accounts are linked with Movies Anywhere.
This is why I don't buy digital video or audio, and now no games. Sick of the constant scam trying to get you to pay more cash and how easily you can lose things you have paid for.
I get people all the time that see our movie collection and ask why we just don't go digital. It's bad enough PC games are all digital now and with every ISP having data caps, all digital is a win for them.
Lithonion1 I’ve never had a data cap on my home internet lol
I buy digital movies and TV shows all the time. I have movies and shows that are no longer on the iTunes Store. I didn’t lose them. I can stream them right now. This concept of losing your content, in my experience, just isn’t true
Bailey, first not all Internet is the same. While you may not hit data caps, their are plenty of people that have either low coverage areas or just plain crap Internet. Second, you don’t own any digital content, not really. It even states in the terms of service of any digital provider that they have the right to terminate the uses of such content at any time.
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I bought a Blu ray of Terminator Genisys at Big lots today and it had a second disc of Terminator inside. Terminator Genisys had a digital code that stated may not be valid after 11/10/2017. Tried it on Vudu and it worked.!! If Vudu ever goes down thats probably it for the streaming movie industry. I remember when Flixster and CenimaNow went the way of the Dinosaur and Onlive did for gaming.
Unfortunately, that is the biggest mistake people make when purchasing movies. They see the expiration date and throw away the code. I've been a movie collector for 3 years now, and I noticed that every digital code no matter the expiration date still works.
Welcome to the modern day version of Divx. I hated it then, I hate it now.
I used to to think the exact thing tbh. But recently I’ve gotten rid of all my physical media except series box sets, in exchange for iTunes versions of movies, which offer all the extra features in their original quality and not compressed into a DVD, but I also have streaming services that let me pick any show I want to watch.
He is right. I purchased WWE summerslam 2014 on Google play the first time it was released. And now 2020 it was removed after playing 15 bucks. And i been buying digital for years and now i regret it and i have 600 digital copies. Im going too have too find the disc. And i just got joker on Amazon prime digital only. Now im thinking of getting the disc
I got lazy a few years back. Bought Alias, Xfiles, Fringe. Smallville on Xbox. They look great but when they stopped their music site I got a little worried they may do the same with Digital. May be time to buy a big hard drive.
It's good to know, I've been a physical buyer for a long time bought movies 3-4 times of different formats of the same movies over the years as well as a gamer of Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft. I'm getting older and just can't deal with the clutter, space and time with my physical library growing every month where it's overtaking my house looking like an archive vault of movies and games from years back when DVD first started looking like I'm a hoarder or something.
That's why I went digital
Man, this sucks bruh...
There was this old concert from 2010 of one of my favorite bands.
The only place I could watch it on / buy a digital copy on were Itunes and Amazon/Stingray Qello or something.
I've been looking for a day straight for a way to convert this m4v file / record my screen, both have failed.
This world is going to hell men... The worst thing about stuff like this is that when a movie is then removed from a service, it's gone from the public eye.
Maybe a small amount of data holders have that piece of media in their databases but you can't get it anymore publicly.
That’s ilegal,doesn’t make sense that your money would just be waisted that’s a big lawsuit bro it even says “you own hDx or UHD not renting or limited time etc..
Read the terms of service.
@@MovieGuy365 no need,own means own period.besides you can always transfer them to a external hard drive.
No need to read the terms of service? The same terms which clearly states your digital ownership rights can be taken away, but hey, you do you.
I do think that these big companies should at least let people know when they are taking your movies off and should give you a free refund or a movie for about the same price but that is my opinion I do buy more movies digital only because I got a small apartment
I mainly use Vudu because of early access and the ability to watch my movies literally anywhere. But I use this for my comics. Huge nerd when it comes to that. I recently noticed all my 4K movies on my account are no longer in 4K. Has anyone else noticed this. We’re paying for these movies and they are slowly disappearing from our libraries.
iTunes or now called TV App still offers very poor Quality, if you download it even gets much worse. For example. "The nice Guys" has 384kbit Audio, quit bad, if you download you get.... 92kbit. We have 2020 and not 1980. Thats not acceptable. That just sucks. so downloading will never be an option for me, even if i have 14TB of storage. you can not even download 4k movies, only an very poor 1080p version with around 4-5gb. Wow...
I tested some movies on itunes, from 1080p to 4k with atmos etc. Its unbelievable bad quality if you own an 75" direct led screen and a 7.1 home cinema. I would not even buy those moives for 1$. i bought 4 movies to test, but did only watch two of them yet. They sound so horrible.
I would realy love to dive into the digital world, but if quality matters for you, i have to stick to physical or at least buy and rip to iTunes with 640kbit. With that you get 1080p Movies look and sound 4 times better than any iTunes 4k movie. thats sure.
The movies i bought in the store have about 18Mbit in 4k with 384 or even 164kbit Audio. All my Discs in iTunes has about 25Mbit and 640kbit Audio. Thats a loooot of difference.
After "buying" more digital movies than id like to admit I stopped cold turkey this year and only buy blurays now. I regret going digital. Zero resale value. Buyouts could cause you to lose your "copy". Streaming quality is less than physical.
Dude!!!! That happened to one of my movies on Vudu! I think it was on one of my X-men movies that I had redeemed the digital copy years ago from a DVD so the format was on SD, now it's in UHD and some special edition. A "free" upgrade? But yeah, I agree with you, ALWAYS BUY PHYSICAL COPIES OF YOUR MOVIES/TV, VIDEO GAMES, AND MUSIC PEOPLE!!!!
Wow, Good information
So, all the “I LOVE the convenience of DIGITAL FILMS” crowd, I guess the jokes on you after all.....I have been preaching it for years now: BUY PHYSICAL MEDIA, and stop encouraging them to continue down that path.
I just came across a technicality that says your TH-cam locker of purchases is only viewable for up to 5 years. Which is kind of stupid. It's 2021 why can't I just own digital copies without downloading so I can view them on all devices. Discs and tapes are such a thing of the past.
I'm here because I just realize how disappointing these new movie digital codes are. I bought the CD excited that I'll have a copy on my computer forever, but no it requires a subscription to watch it on another app! This sucks...
You're voice was down so low but then your intro music was blasting.
The same thing happened in the UK. BlinkBox was a digital provider for movies/tv shows, but after just a few years the company was sold to TalkTalk (broadband provider) TV who renamed the business (#same name - TalkTalk TV), and then about a year later the company was sold off again to WuakiTV,. This brought around a situation where all the movies I owned with BlinkBox/TalkTalkTV (John Wick, John Wick 2, Jurassic World, Game of Thrones - season 6/7, etc.) are now completely dead and inaccessible to myself because WaukiTV totally sucks and lost all my previously bought stuff.
This is why I personally fell in love with physical media again after many years and am now an avid collector of blu-ray and steelbook movies. If your careful when purchasing physical movies then you can ensure before buying that they come with digital codes so that you get the best of both worlds, physical for watching movies at home, and digital codes for watching movies on the go. That’s why I shop around when buying blu-rays/4K blu-rays/steelbooks, and physical media (especially movies) is definitely the way to go moving forward.
Thanks for the telling video. Truly good stuff, as always.
I just learn of this , just order a Blu ray Player f that bs... This why Apple didnt want to do a sony Blu ray contract. Apple said it would cost to much money to have Blu ray drive in mac. My Mac Pro has a Blu ray, I’m so piss that brought 378 movies .needs how to download them and safe keep them
I'm guessing it's illegal to copy them to disc, then. My bad experience was when I migrated music out of iTunes. Those filles had the ends chopped off.
Great video. Regarding editing movies. Kanye West has edited his albums on Tidal, so the Tidal album has a different track order, and some mixes are different. Its only a matter of time before the same happens with movies. Heck the only way to see the original Star Wars: A New Hope is to dig out the Laser Disc and VHS versions.
I don’t think enough people realize this is a very realistic possibility when it comes to movies.
With regards to editing, it's also happening with digital books such as what you would read on Kindle. This is mostly material that nowadays is considered not politically correct in todays Snowflake-don't hurt my feelings, times. Very sad state of affairs indeed.
physical media is 4-ever with me, i do like digital as well but i looks everytime in the week if it's all there but digital not being ours it does hurt really bad those companies just getting off us that's all yes i am with physical media always have been of my 80 titles of films and since the VHS days, i do enjoy both i may need the external device for a permanent stay why they put out dvd drive i do not know, i wn't pay no other stream devices ever,
Thank you for The information I will never buy digital forms of entertainment/Apps because you’re guaranteed that you’re going to get screwed eventually.
If I don’t own them....I don’t buy them. I even subscribe to Audible but with means and ways of having my own digital drm free copy of them. If I couldn’t do that, I wouldn’t be a member.
the only way digital copies is that they need to make the movies you own drm free come on studios make the movies drm free
I agree with what you are saying. I’m sure new laws will come into effect like everything else it’s getting harder to get physical movies. Best Buy has gazed out cds
How is it getting harder to get physical movies?
But with music all you need is Spotify. Physical all the way with Movies.
We'd be screwed if they go all digital and retiring physical media altogether plus stop making physical players. Then what? That's entirely possible.
This this is anything including even if it says on the movie because you've literally until you run out of space they need to be called out for it because it's actually false advertisement which is my own physical copies I've been saying this since the beginning if they did a cloud storage that might be possible but none of these companies do that that would have been much more smarter I'll stick to my copies
Thank you for taking the time to inform the public on this. I've been preaching it for years now.
He's NOT stating all the facts! Downloading is going to replace physical media just as streaming music did to CD's. Just wait. That's why Best Buy will STOP selling movies as of 1/2024. They are losing money. Why do you think that is? I'll let you think about it.
@@Actionjac1Already replaced it in most cases. However, he is correct lol
@@jordanstarnes6 I have NEVER had any issues with movie purchased on Itunes. NONE!
It’s even worse no I had a bunch of my movies downloaded and all and now there’s a bunch missing it’s still available but now it’s asking my to buy it even though I already did and had it downloaded still ended up missing
That’s never going to happen you know how much money they are getting people that buy Digital who you think getting all that money Big Business why wouldn’t they have the distribution rights they are making big money they both are making money
I figuered this was the case. On PC games, I stick with GOG. All games are DRM-Free. You buy it, you own it. As for Movies,I buy only Physical. I then make a digital backup.
By the way , VUDU doesn’t exist it’s Fandango now
movies that vudu lost distribution rights are still in my library and work
They work as long as they are either downloaded or the studios allow it. They have the right to take it from your library at their discretion.
I have a question somewhat unrelated. If I buy a Blu-ray with a digital copy, but I already have the digital copy, do I get a Vudu credit?
Nope, it’s best just to sell it or give it away if you already ya e the digital copy.
When you buy them they are yours
Thank you very much for the very helpful video I have considered this very thing because I’ve had trouble with Apple before locking movies up that I have bought because I forgot a payment That I owed them after watching this video I have decided to buy a Blu-ray player and go that route thanks so much for your advice and the video
A couple of discs in my dads movie collection got scratched to the point over the years that no DvD player would read it so i bought the digital versions and havent had a problem one (yet) i want to get a drive and store his and my movies on to be on the safer side of the fence
Bro you owe nothing in life. Things come and goes. Same thing with physical media if they stop making copy those movies you love. When you lose them you just can’t get it back
So how do I download the movies I have purchased from Vudu onto an external hard drive? Please do a video on that.
UltraViolet is closing their doors at the end of July 2019! Which will be a pain! because now my movies will be scattered over FandangoNow, MoviesAnywhere, Amazon, Google Play, and VUDU! An it also made me stop and think, if UltraViolet is shutting down for good, then how long before they all do? That means the Thousands of dollars I have spent, buying TV shows/Movies, will go down the drain without a thing to show for it! The reason I did it in the first place was the same reason a lot of people do, because we are to lazy to find a DVD/Blu Ray put it in, when with streaming we just push a button, and we have what we want to watch. Sure there is hard drives , but they don't make them like they use to and over time the picture gets corrupt, so that's out. I knew something was up when Sony Pictures Store was shutting down, then UltraViolet was next! If they all shut down, and they don't give a refund for purchased content which it does say You own on VUDU, either SD or HDX or UHD! I see a big world lawsuit! Regards!
Your best bet is Amazon Prime. They are not going anywhere any time soon.
@@iomis2001 What about Movies Anywhere?
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@@iomis2001 Its because I have a few questions
That would be major a class action lawsuit. Congress would also get involved, mark my words. Movie studios would come under fire. It would be just like the gift certificate laws that passed. Purchases can't be revoked or expire.
but yea iTunes needs to change if they want people to go all digital until they do I will always do both
Pros and cons. You get robbed or house-fire your physical copies are gone forever too. But very good points made here too. I think I’m gonna start making physical copies now. Thanks for the vid!
That's not very likely though. It's more likely that Amazon and vudu will rob you from your money.
this is why physical media is so important you preserve movies in it's purest form Digital and streaming you never own and are unreliable if you really love a movie or tv show buy the physical copy you have it forever as long as you take good care of it
i hate the fact that they don't let us download digital movies onto computers.
Well it is now 2021. How do i download the digital movies I got through Fandango????
I always buy the discs that include the digital copies. That was I can watch movies on my iPad or phone, but I also own the physical disc so I can watch that (and just in case something happens to my digital copies)
KODI is best, VUDU isn’t free
KODI can be illegal if you download and watch jailbroken apps.
I bought movies from Vudu that are not available for purchase or rental anymore and they are still in my library
I had purchased movies in rotten tomato, mgo, cineanow, flixster (non apple) and I still have all of them even after they went under.
You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. You didn't own horrible bosses in 2012 on flixster, they never lost rights to that title. What you probably did was signed up on Facebook / google / email and went back to flixster with a different sign-in and thought you lost your title because you created a new account and forgot your original loggin
Incorrect but thanks for playing. Read the terms of service, your ownership “rights” are spelled out there.
“What I probably did” is exactly what I said. If you think that you are 100% secured in your digital purchase rights, have fun with that.
Dude I just left a comment on a video saying you were nice. Then I’m watching a video about digital ownership and you go out of your way to insinuate that it wasn’t cool of Olivia Munn to call out a sex offender who she had to work with in a major film. You are gross and I don’t think you are a calm reasonable person. Because calm, reasonable people care about protecting women. Even pretty ones that make you feel insecure, buddy.
That’s not what I said at all.
Honestly I lost more physical movies than I can remember we have thousands if I ever want to look for A movie it can take me up to 4 hours to finally find it or it’s just lost we used to buy about 15 movies A month for the last 10 years and we had a lot before that to begin with plus the sun ruins the discs if there left out or A single scratch and your movie is done we’ve been going digital since the pandemic and hardly any stores sell movies anymore.. it’s like A dying breed..
Best Buy in my area stopped selling all physical media in stores
I have become aware of this recently and I am trying to download as much of my digital as I can. The kicker to it is that now that I have downloaded some movies I purchased (from Prime - the ones Prime will ALLOW me to anyway - and Vudu) I cannot locate the files on my hard drive. I want to make backups for the inevitable system crash.... Any suggestions? I am considering search utilities, but don't know which one would be best for this type of search. My OS is Windows 10.
Off the cuff I don’t but let me get in contact with my tech friends and I’ll get back to you.
Those sweet 3 letters DRM!!!
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