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[Deleted member 801069]

I’m in in the process of switching over to digital everything. Switched over to Apple Music a couple years ago, have gone 100% digital when it comes to video games, movies are pretty much the only thing left.

where do you buy digital movies? tempted to just use Amazon out of convenience

 

[diffusionx]

I normally rent from Amazon.

 

[deafmedal]

Quite a few of the services use Movies Anywhere so I buy where cheapest and access through my Apple account. We usually only rent through Apple though.

 

[bender]

iTunes. I don't buy a lot of movies though. Notable movies missing from US iTunes

-Legend of the Drunken Master
-Vengeance Trilogy
-Fist of Legend
-Hard Boiled
-The Killer

Weekly sales go live on Mondays and if you are patient can get your favorite movies from $4.99-$9.99.

 

[King of Foxes]

bittorrent

 

[TDiddyLive]

VUDU. Never had an issue with it and is part of Movies Anywhere.

 

[nush]

I rip DVDs.

 

[.hacked]

I use Apple, used to do BitTorrent and used a Mac mini as a home server with some appletvs. Went legit and moved to buying iTunes versions becasue most of my Blu-ray’s came with iTunes codes for their digital versions and I already had a large library of movies.

easy to share with family and works well with our phones and iPads. Since appleTV launched getting apple app on roku made it even better becasue can now watch movies a non apple device. They also just auto update your digital version for free to best available version. So those digital copies of the LotR dvds I got years ago are now 4K hdr versions and it didn’t cost me anything.

keep a few Blu-ray’s around for kids when internet goes out but think we are firmly a digital household.

 

[GuyKazama]

Vudu. Sometimes iTunes if they support Movies Anywhere or if they are exclusive.

 

[Hakiroto]

Typically iTunes on the Apple TV 4K.

 

[ManofOne]

Blockbuster.

 

[Fox Mulder]

iTunes and Vudu since most things will cross over with Movies Anywhere and you can take advantage of different sales.

 

[GeorgPrime]

I watched so many movies digitally.... but never did i buy one in my life.

And iam happy about it.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

Apple.

 

[Riven326]

Do people still buy physical copies of movies?

 

[eddie4]

I buy physical copies when I can, for the movies that I want. The rest get streamed from Netflix, prime, apple tv, etc.

 

[INC]

Buy?

I just wait til they're free on streaming services, with cinemas fucked now, they don't take long to be free to watch

 

[GeorgPrime]

Do people still buy physical copies of movies?

Why do you expropriate yourself by going fully digital?

You own nothing of value and you have nothing to sell in hard times.

I buy music on vinyl. I buy movies on bluray.

Everything else i dont want to buy i just stream over the internet but i wont buy it digitally.

I only buy games digitally if i can snatch them for 10-20 euro or at the moment due to Corona.

 

[Cocksman]

iTunes . The quality and the free upgrades to 4K make it a no brainer.

 

[eddie4]

You own nothing of value and you have nothing to sell in hard times.

Also if you read the agreement that you 'agreed to' but haven't read, says that if their shit goes down or your movie has to be removed because of woke culture you lose it. Same with anything digital.

 

[Riven326]

Why do you expropriate yourself by going fully digital?

You own nothing of value and you have nothing to sell in hard times.

I buy music on vinyl. I buy movies on bluray.

Everything else i dont want to buy i just stream over the internet but i wont buy it digitally.

I only buy games digitally if i can snatch them for 10-20 euro or at the moment due to Corona.

I don't buy movies digitally. I have a blu ray collection. I do buy my games digitally for convenience. For me, it's never been an issue. I've used Steam for years before I went digital on console. The adverse reaction from console only gamers is unsrandable, I guess.

 

[GeorgPrime]

Also if you read the agreement that you 'agreed to' but haven't read, says that if their shit goes down or your movie has to be removed because of woke culture you lose it. Same with anything digital.

I know.

You dont buy digitally. You only lend the right to use a product on a specfic platform.

If you want to buy, for example, games digitally and own them at the same time with the option to resell digital games to other people online....

...then you have to use https://store.robotcache.com/

Your "Ownership" of the game gets recorded in blockchain and the information is immutable.

I already bought 3 games there, finished them and sold them again to someone else.

 

[AJUMP23]

I use a lot of code resellers on Facebook and there use to be a great Google+ community for it. AVS Forum and Reddit have a good reseller communities. I Recently got digital 4k LOTR for $35. But you can get a lot of older movies for $5 or less.

 

[thefool]

I will never ever buy a digital movie. NEVAH

 

[Fbh]

Do people still buy physical copies of movies?

I rarely buy movies (I mostly just rent and then if I want to rewatch it down the line it's usually on some streaming service already), but when I do it's always physical.
I like my access to the movie not being tied to a specific account on a specific service with a 30 pages EULA. And having the case/disc is nice.

 

[thefool]

I used to go to those consumer electronic stores and spend so much time in the movie sections, looking at movie classics I would love to watch, discovering new ones, finding new films, etc. I go there now and it's filled with Goku, Luffy and Thanos figures, fucking mugs and those idiotic funko pop shit. Like, I got absolutely nothing against collectibles but this is what they are reducing cinema consumerism to and it just makes me sad.

If you call me old, I'll hunt you down.

 

[lachesis]

Used to rent blu-rays from DVD.com (Netflix), but I've stopped. I caught up with all the movies that I wanted to watch.
Now I'm mostly on streaming services - I have Netflix and Disney+ with Hulu/ESPN bundle... along with Amazon Prime.
I could live without Disney+ and Hulu, so I may end up cancelling it. Same with Netflix... I can just join it when a new season of Mandalorian/Cobra Kai arrives.... but my job pretty much demands that I need to keep on top and aware of the UX and current content on some of the major streaming sites & machines.... :/

 

[ArtemisClydeFrog]

Do people still buy physical copies of movies?

Yes. The quality is so much better than streamed "4K" services. You ain't gettin no ass trying to show off a Disney+ version of Toy Story.

 

[TDiddyLive]

Yes. The quality is so much better than streamed "4K" services. You ain't gettin no ass trying to show off a Disney+ version of Toy Story.

True, but only because if Toy Story is your go-to move, you ain’t gettin no ass at all.

 

[Riven326]

Yes. The quality is so much better than streamed "4K" services. You ain't gettin no ass trying to show off a Disney+ version of Toy Story.

I don't know. I bought a 4k copy of Fury and I didn't think it was much better than the standard blu ray. My streamed movies in 1080p look pretty damn good.

 

[Deleted member 801069]

True, but only because if Toy Story is your go-to move, you ain’t gettin no ass at all.

I hooked up with my ex wife for the first time to Finding Nemo

 

[GAMETA]

I have subscriptions on Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+ and Qbittorrent

 

[mango drank]

For you guys buying digital and stripping off the DRM (so you never lose access to your buys), is it easier to do that with movies you buy from Amazon, or from iTunes, or what?

 

[Lemonade by Beyonce]

Amazon for me. Most of them have joined my Movies anywhere account.

One thing to watch out for, occasionally I find a 4K movie where the disc+digital code is cheaper than the movie itself. As long as it’s a moviesanywhere title it will be on your amazon account, as well as Apple, Vudu and a few others if you link accounts.

 

[epicnemesis]

Quite a few of the services use Movies Anywhere so I buy where cheapest and access through my Apple account. We usually only rent through Apple though.

This is the correct answer. Just launder all your movies through movies anywhere and then use whatever app interface you prefer.

 

[MaestroMike]

Bought like 30 movies yesterday through apple everything less than $10. Got goodfellas and casino for $5 a pop! Can't wait to watch them all, again!

 

[Dark Star]

I don't buy digital movies. I just use streaming services like Netflix or Hulu or whatever. I do buy individual games digitally, however. I also would like to start a small Blu-ray collection for my favorite movies instead of buying them digitally as well. Basically it's the argument that you actually "own" something proper because it's a physical/hard copy, and I think that applies to movies.

 

[Captain Zyrain]

Everything through Vudu if I can, as the app is on everything I need it to be on, and is MoviesAnywhere compliant.

Amazon, iTunes, MS Store, etc if I absolutely have to or it's some crazy killer deal.

 

[T8SC]

I don't, I buy physical. Unless Google gives me free credits.

 

[Virt McPolygon]

iTunes.

Otherwise I get from Mega or Zippyshare links. Bittorrent is for suckers.

 

[Devonshire]

iTunes/AppleTV 4K here.

I’ll occasionally buy something from Amazon, but the quality from Apple is consistently excellent so I usually stick with them.

 

[Susurrus]

My main digital store is Vudu, which was kind of a result of the Disc 2 Digital being a huge foundation of my library. I also buy off other services if I find a good deal and they're Movies Anywhere compatible. I also buy a decent amount of Blurays (mostly 4k these days) and those almost always come w/ digital codes.