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Hollywood Studios Join Disney To Launch Movies Anywhere Digital Locker Service (theverge.com)
There may be a grand unifying service to make accumulating a large digital cinematic library feasible, or so is the hope anyway. From a report: For several years now, Disney has been the only Hollywood studio with a digital movie locker worth using, but a host of other industry heavyweights have now jumped on board to launch an expanded version of the service called Movies Anywhere. It's both a cloud-based digital locker and a one-stop-shop app: customers connect Movies Anywhere to their iTunes, Amazon Video, Google Play, or Vudu accounts, and all of the eligible movies they've purchased through those retailers appear as part of their Movies Anywhere library. Given that the Movies Anywhere app works across a number of platforms, it basically allows them to take their digital film library with them no matter what device or operating system they're using. [...] The launch of Movies Anywhere should be the merciful, final blow that puts an end to UltraViolet, one of the entertainment industry's first attempts at putting together a comprehensive digital locker service. That service flailed due to a poor customer experience and lack of adoption on the part of big digital retailers like Apple. The team behind Movies Anywhere seems to have learned from UltraViolet's mistakes, however, as well as Disney's previous successes.
make accumulating a large digital cinematic library feasible
If you don't have the video in your possession, I don't think it counts as "accumulating a library".
Could have used an actual article with in depth review of what works and what doesn't. The whole thing just reads like it was published by the sales department.
I am no defender of Ultraviolet, in fact I'm quite annoyed by it, but show me in the article where it poitns out any business model differences or important ways that the consumer benefits by this new service.
...to see the difference between DMA (or MA as it's now supposed to be) and UV, beyond the list of participants. They're both trying to do the same thing, and the UIs of both are pretty similar.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Everything on their servers. Nothing anywhere else.
Next step after that, buying a law making it illegal to have movies, music, etc. etc. on your own hardware, with government-mandated spyware, sorry, MSFT calls it "telemetry," to make sure the law is enforced.
And, of course, if the network goes down...
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this is just the beginning of the lol and i suggest u read the whole page
Another change to re-buy your collection (and pay a storage fee) so you can get hammered by your cable company for excessive bandwidth fees (provided you in a spot that has enough bandwidth to stream a movie) until they close up shop and you have to re-buy your collection again when you move to the next service.
It's called a seedbox.
That's not fertilizer!
Where's People for the Ethical Treatment of Plants when you need them?
With movies using the Disney system, you could actually download a DRM-protected copy of the movie to your Mac.
I joined the Disney program when it first started - they were offering a free copy of "The Incredibles" for signing up. It's still the only movie in my Disney-run vault.
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it's called a DVD ripper. And I don't have to worry about slow 4G.
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So basically Steam for movies?
"Digital Locker" because it may require an individual to keep paying a subscription fee for access to what they have purchased?
I took a quick look and don't see anything related to a subscription fee so I could be off base.
Or this is just a lure to get individuals in before they go subscription.
Not really sure at this point, But as a rule, I don't like having anything I purchased kept in someone else s hands.
The other item is anytime you link things it sets you up for complex issues that could come up in the future. So linking things is not something I do, Others may since it is purely a personal preference.
And that's the thing. You don't own your movies. You own a licence to watch a movie that's only as good as the platform it was issued on. Don't expect to donate, sell or loan your movies. Don't expect your family to have access to them if you die. Don't expect to watch movies at all if some legal fubar means the rights expire or whatever. Don't expect to play movies on a platform and player of your choice. And absolutely don't expect your movies to be there if the platform flops.
So enjoy!
What a joke! Terms of Use state that service users must reside in US or territories. Completely useless for 95% of the planet.
No thanks i'm not into pedophiles.
For those people with a lot of movies in their UV locker, I hope they let you transfer the movies (maybe for a small fee)
With movies using the Disney system, you could actually download a DRM-protected copy of the movie to your Mac.
I joined the Disney program when it first started - they were offering a free copy of "The Incredibles" for signing up. It's still the only movie in my Disney-run vault.
I'm able to download them onto my phone in the new app.
If this service allowed one to "own" a movie after having paid to see it at the theater, I might actually start visiting theaters again.
Cool idea Disney, but you really don't have to worry about digital piracy. Pirates only 'steal' good movies, so you are quite safe.....
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
The key game changer is that what you buy in one store will appear in your library in other stores - no additional app needed beyond linking the accounts. If Google Play Movies goes out of business tomorrow, whatever you bought will be watchable through Amazon Video. If your device only has iTunes? No problem!
Like I lost ones that were redeemed with iTunes and not transferrable.
Like all the licenses I bought for ringtone songs that were lost when my phone died under warranty.
It would be really really really nice if content providers, who claim they aren't selling products and that we are only licensed to view the content...
WOULD GIVE US THE DAMN LICENSES
I mean for the most part, UltraViolet did this, granted I think Disney decided to venture on your own. But I pretty much have most things connected to VUDU.
So what is the issue? The industry doesn't want to all agree to use UltraViolet? It was costing studios too much? Or they just want to wipe the slate clean and think we'll re-buy rather than just decide to pirate after such loss.
They do give you the licenses, they also reserve the right to cancel / revoke it at anytime for any or no reason.
Don't like it? Well you're SOL. They own the laws that make the alternatives illegal and they write the punishments for breaking them. So get ready to pony up again son, because anything less makes you a bad-double-ungood pirate. Of course you already are one, but they just don't have the laws / flimsy evidence needed to prosecute you, yet.