Rekrul
join:2007-04-21
Milford, CT Reviews:
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Re: Just pay for your content said by IowaCowboy:I pay for my cable subscription (video) on Comcast and I pay for my music on iTunes. Where can I buy digital downloads of movies and TV shows?
Note that I said buy, not rent. You can buy MP3 files, save them to your hard drive, burn them to disc, etc. Where can I go to do the same thing for movies and TV shows?
For example, I'd like to legally download episodes of the 2005 CBS crime drama "Close to Home". Where do I go for that?
When The Avengers comes out on home video, where can I go to buy a digital download of the film? One that I can keep and re-watch as many times as I want, just like I can with MP3 files? |
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 NormanSPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
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| said by Rekrul:Where can I buy digital downloads of movies and TV shows?
I can't say about the specific shows you mentioned, but ...
Movies:
iTunes store.
TV:
iTunes store.
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
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Rekrul
join:2007-04-21
Milford, CT Reviews:
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| said by NormanS:I can't say about the specific shows you mentioned, but ... Actually, Close to Home isn't available from any legal source. Despite lasting two seasons, it's just one of many shows that has never been released on DVD. Other such shows include Seven Days, Special Unit 2, All Souls, Committed, Project UFO and more.
As for the movies, I should have mentioned that the videos have to play on any device, just like MP3 files do. |
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 RARPSL
join:1999-12-08
Suffern, NY | said by Rekrul:said by NormanS:I can't say about the specific shows you mentioned, but ... Actually, Close to Home isn't available from any legal source. Despite lasting two seasons, it's just one of many shows that has never been released on DVD. Other such shows include Seven Days, Special Unit 2, All Souls, Committed, Project UFO and more. As for the movies, I should have mentioned that the videos have to play on any device, just like MP3 files do. IMO: Failure to release on DVD (or as downloadable files) voids any claim of piracy when I go to a BitTorrent site and download a copy that was made from the aired show. IOW: If you do not want to sell your show to me yet I want it, you have no loss to claim if I get it from another source for free.
As to SU2 and 7Days - both are available if you know which BT site to look on. I would rather have them as Official DVDs but having them in AVI format allows me to view them when I want. As to DVD release the cost is minor IF they want to go the Burn On Demand as opposed to Pressing DVD route (there are a number of movies and shows that are being sold by the studios that way in lieu of full blown pressed versions). Once they make up the master image doing burns is cheap since there is no pressing or stock/inventory cost. I admit that once you want to add bonus features the cost of creating the master goes up but just issuing just the episodes is a minor cost since you already have the shows and thus need to create nothing extra. |
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NormanSPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
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| said by RARPSL:IMO: Failure to release on DVD (or as downloadable files) voids any claim of piracy when I go to a BitTorrent site and download a copy that was made from the aired show. IOW: If you do not want to sell your show to me yet I want it, you have no loss to claim if I get it from another source for free.
If the IP owner isn't selling, I wonder if he can still prove a tort in court? Just don't ask me to be the test case.
FWIW, the only tunes I have pirated are out of print.
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
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Rekrul
join:2007-04-21
Milford, CT Reviews:
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| reply to RARPSL
said by RARPSL:As to SU2 and 7Days - both are available if you know which BT site to look on. Yes, but unfortunately, both were recorded off the SciFi Channel, which is notorious for chopping out parts of shows in order to cram in more commercials. If the tapes haven't degraded to the point where they're unwatchable, I have all the episodes of SU2 recorded off the original broadcasts (except for one that I had to record the repeat of, since we lost power in the middle of the first airing) on UPN. At some point in the near future, I'd like to get something to allow me to digitize them.
The only thing is, I'm not sure I can make good copies out of them. I mean, Windows stutters when playing videos, how is it going to digitize and encode videos in real-time? Not that I have a slow system. It's a 2.4Ghz, Dual Core system, but it still stutters every few minutes. It seems like Windows is incapable of doing anything without stuttering occasionally. Yes, I've turned off indexing, temporarily disabled my re-time virus scanning, etc. It still stutters. |
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some shows just shouldn't have been made, let alone put on dvd. |
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