Saturday 25 February 2012
Monday 6 February 2012
Buying digital movies is...impossible?
OS for the last week now I've been trying to figure out a way to get movies that I can watch on my playbook or on my PC or on a DVD (from my PC). Sounds easy enough and should be simple in today's day in age...but no.
Not unless ou live in UK or USA.
Most places that offer some sort of digital purchase of a movie make you use their player or you need to use Internet Explorer, so no good for my playbook or to make a DVD.
The thing is I dont know what format these movies will come in and I dont know if I can just convert them or if they will be protected. I am pretty sure that it owuld no t be easy to convert them to lets say an MP4 format.
Cineplex for example offers the download but then you have to use explorer and DIvx you have to use their player ( or a device with Divx installed) others like Youtube stream the content, so you dont actually ever get what you buy.
This is my issue with this;
I pay for it so give me what I pay for, Let me be free to watch it when I want, where I wnant with whom I want. That is why I buy something...to own it.
So please let me be free to view your movie, that I paid for
Let me be free to view your movie, with whomever, whenever, and however I please.
Let me use what I buy without having to subscribe to other services, I want to watch the movie I bought without conditions.
I reallly tried and looke around and it seems the best option is to download movies illegally because then you have the ability to watch them on any device and you can transfer them around. This is not what I want.
I just want to click, pay and own it. Just like music files are today....why is that so hard?
Oh is it hollywood...probably. But Fuck man, you used to rent out movies and sell them on tape, which was toooooooo easy to copy and do you know how many bootlegs were around? lots! Didi I ever own one? No. Why? Because it was too easy to rent or buy one. And if I was worried about degradation I could always make a copy. Today its like you are trying to restrict access to your content?? why? How many people still download music illegally? I think a lot less than 10 years ago (speaking relative and percentage of users wise)
When CD's came out it was ok, you could make your own mix tape from the CD or you could somehow rip a CD(but that seemed pretty badass) and if you were rich you could make a CD.
I would record radio sometimes, but mostly buy music.
Then came napster and I could finally listen to some alternate music and get a copy of any stupid song I was told of. (Trust me, most of it was stupid shit I would never buy like weird al this or natioanl anthems)
This i could keep up with, and then came limewire. Same thing. But it was the only way I could just get one song I like without having to buy the whole CD for 20$ and out all the time into ripping it and converting it (cause somehow it didnt seem to work everytime for me and not for every CD player)
When limewire died it was the last time I downloaded music because I could now BUY ONE SONG online to use and keep like a real song from a CD or I could listen to many songs online (streamed) which many times is all that was desired; to listen to that old weird al song or to find out why people talk about Stompin Tom Conners, or why Fishermans lament is about the fisheries Dept Canada.
That kind of stuff. Of course I have friends who probably owned every song on earth and never paid for it, but so what? That were one person. And not me.
Todaqy I still have most of those shitty songs on my pc. With bad or no title (from the old CD ripping days) no track#, loud BEEPS halfway in the song, or simply 10 secs of repeat for 2:41 mins (yeah those were my favs) but I dont care, they are junk that remind me of how things were.
Today I just get a song if I want to make a mix CD and if I get a CD gift fo xmas I rip it and put the CD in the CD shoe box I have. Because really I just want to listen to songs from a digi format or on my LP's (which are not easily copied lol)
Not unless ou live in UK or USA.
Most places that offer some sort of digital purchase of a movie make you use their player or you need to use Internet Explorer, so no good for my playbook or to make a DVD.
The thing is I dont know what format these movies will come in and I dont know if I can just convert them or if they will be protected. I am pretty sure that it owuld no t be easy to convert them to lets say an MP4 format.
Cineplex for example offers the download but then you have to use explorer and DIvx you have to use their player ( or a device with Divx installed) others like Youtube stream the content, so you dont actually ever get what you buy.
This is my issue with this;
I pay for it so give me what I pay for, Let me be free to watch it when I want, where I wnant with whom I want. That is why I buy something...to own it.
So please let me be free to view your movie, that I paid for
Let me be free to view your movie, with whomever, whenever, and however I please.
Let me use what I buy without having to subscribe to other services, I want to watch the movie I bought without conditions.
I reallly tried and looke around and it seems the best option is to download movies illegally because then you have the ability to watch them on any device and you can transfer them around. This is not what I want.
I just want to click, pay and own it. Just like music files are today....why is that so hard?
Oh is it hollywood...probably. But Fuck man, you used to rent out movies and sell them on tape, which was toooooooo easy to copy and do you know how many bootlegs were around? lots! Didi I ever own one? No. Why? Because it was too easy to rent or buy one. And if I was worried about degradation I could always make a copy. Today its like you are trying to restrict access to your content?? why? How many people still download music illegally? I think a lot less than 10 years ago (speaking relative and percentage of users wise)
When CD's came out it was ok, you could make your own mix tape from the CD or you could somehow rip a CD(but that seemed pretty badass) and if you were rich you could make a CD.
I would record radio sometimes, but mostly buy music.
Then came napster and I could finally listen to some alternate music and get a copy of any stupid song I was told of. (Trust me, most of it was stupid shit I would never buy like weird al this or natioanl anthems)
This i could keep up with, and then came limewire. Same thing. But it was the only way I could just get one song I like without having to buy the whole CD for 20$ and out all the time into ripping it and converting it (cause somehow it didnt seem to work everytime for me and not for every CD player)
When limewire died it was the last time I downloaded music because I could now BUY ONE SONG online to use and keep like a real song from a CD or I could listen to many songs online (streamed) which many times is all that was desired; to listen to that old weird al song or to find out why people talk about Stompin Tom Conners, or why Fishermans lament is about the fisheries Dept Canada.
That kind of stuff. Of course I have friends who probably owned every song on earth and never paid for it, but so what? That were one person. And not me.
Todaqy I still have most of those shitty songs on my pc. With bad or no title (from the old CD ripping days) no track#, loud BEEPS halfway in the song, or simply 10 secs of repeat for 2:41 mins (yeah those were my favs) but I dont care, they are junk that remind me of how things were.
Today I just get a song if I want to make a mix CD and if I get a CD gift fo xmas I rip it and put the CD in the CD shoe box I have. Because really I just want to listen to songs from a digi format or on my LP's (which are not easily copied lol)
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