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iTunes/iPod-Ready Digital Copies on Fox DVDs Official, Free

TheAbominableCellist — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:36:49 EST

@Andham-- Maybe it takes it off the second 'puter when you reconnect both of them. Ah, hell, I don't know. Tell me what happens...

TheAbominableCellist

iTunes/iPod-Ready Digital Copies on Fox DVDs Official, Free

Andham — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:14:40 EST

What would prevent you from copying it to two computers?

It can't write to the DVD, so how would iTunes be able to tell if you have used it or not?

If I get a Fox movie with an iPod compatible version on it, I will unplug one of my 'puters from the net, copy it, then try and copy it to another 'puter before reconnecting the first one....

Then what?

Andham

iTunes/iPod-Ready Digital Copies on Fox DVDs Official, Free

asabru88 — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:02:32 EST

Well, I just got the dvd, so I'll give it a try.

asabru88

iTunes/iPod-Ready Digital Copies on Fox DVDs Official, Free

CyRu5 — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:36:48 EST

.... I take it back, for some reason it's not up, but the rest of Season Six so far is up.

CyRu5

iTunes/iPod-Ready Digital Copies on Fox DVDs Official, Free

CyRu5 — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:31:42 EST

@ASABRU88: If it lets you copy it once, to either iTunes or PlaysForSure, which are both DRM standards, i assume it has DRM. Just hope you have a device compatible with one of those DRM schemes. I'll probably put it on my Creative Zen. I think it's convenient that i could do that without having to rip it myself. although i'm pretty sure you can just buy the episode off of Amazon Unbox for $2...

CyRu5

iTunes/iPod-Ready Digital Copies on Fox DVDs Official, Free

asabru88 — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:08:03 EST

This is my question, will the digital copy have copy protection also, or is it DRM free?

asabru88

iTunes/iPod-Ready Digital Copies on Fox DVDs Official, Free

Skeezix404 — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:49:12 EST

@everclear75: Yes, you can. You have my permission to do that. Every rental will contain a unique code, a coupon for a triple scoop ice cream cone at Baskin-Robbins, a lottery ticket, and a new car.

Skeezix404

iTunes/iPod-Ready Digital Copies on Fox DVDs Official, Free

Skeezix404 — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:09:00 EST

@everclear75: Yes, you can. You have my permission.

Skeezix404

iTunes/iPod-Ready Digital Copies on Fox DVDs Official, Free

Noobs-R-Us — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:12:47 EST

@everclear75: You can't rent it.

Noobs-R-Us

iTunes/iPod-Ready Digital Copies on Fox DVDs Official, Free

everclear75 — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:40:30 EST

@ Superhalo: Let me know if you get on to your zune.

MY question about this is, is the Itunes "code" on the disc or is it a card in the clamshell?
What if I rent a copy of the movie, can I still copy it over?

everclear75

iTunes/iPod-Ready Digital Copies on Fox DVDs Official, Free

superhalo — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:30:02 EST

I bought the special eddition today and transfered the movie over to Windows media player. It transfers very quickly and it is a good quality. Also they put the digital copy on its own disc. Now I'm going to try to put it on my zune.

superhalo

iTunes/iPod-Ready Digital Copies on Fox DVDs Official, Free

avnerd — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:15:19 EST

buy a psp and a ps3 if you want to do that, it's in the next (or current) update. plus you would have to have a blu ray player on your mac or pc in order to do that. why would you want to do that to a beautiful 1920x1080 resolution movie anyway? ever thought what resolution you monitor supports anyway?

avnerd

iTunes/iPod-Ready Digital Copies on Fox DVDs Official, Free

miro — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:40:49 EST

Has anyone tried to transfer Blue Harvest to iTunes yet? I've been trying but I keep getting "unknown error 11556".

miro

iTunes/iPod-Ready Digital Copies on Fox DVDs Official, Free

FLskydiver — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:22:45 EST

So basically they are taking (at first guess) at least 14% of the available space on the DVD to encode a second copy of the movie; instead of using that space to maximize the bit rate of the main mpeg2 movie that 95% of the public will be viewing exclusively. No, thanks.

FLskydiver

iTunes/iPod-Ready Digital Copies on Fox DVDs Official, Free

chillywilly — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:41:08 EST

@Galley: Good question. I would hope do, although I would imagine you would need a Blu-Ray drive on your computer to read the disc.

This is a step in the right directed. Wonder what took them so long? Guess they needed to iron out the copy details.

chillywilly

iTunes/iPod-Ready Digital Copies on Fox DVDs Official, Free

Galley — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:41:51 EST

Nice, but will this be available on Blu-ray Discs as well?

Galley

iTunes/iPod-Ready Digital Copies on Fox DVDs Official, Free

takotchi — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:45:30 EST

I bought Blue Harvest today, and it has a little sticker on the shrinkwrap telling you about the digital copy. I haven't tried it out yet, but it seems from the little instruction sheet that you can only choose to transfer to your iTunes library or a PlaysForSure device. I hope if it gets deleted somehow you can re-copy it from the disc...

takotchi

iTunes/iPod-Ready Digital Copies on Fox DVDs Official, Free

Jud — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:26:29 EST

Blegh, I'll keep with my handbraking. Apple doesn't get to tell me what to do with my DVDs. If I want to stream them to my 360, I will. If I want to put them on any of my devices, I will.

Jud

iTunes/iPod-Ready Digital Copies on Fox DVDs Official, Free

csmith75 — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:25:52 EST

Hope to see other studios hop on board with this. Even though it's easy to rip content, I would like to be able to have a copy for my iPod without being made to feel guilty about it.

csmith75

iTunes/iPod-Ready Digital Copies on Fox DVDs Official, Free

i_kenefick — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:15:57 EST

The name suits you :)

i_kenefick

iTunes/iPod-Ready Digital Copies on Fox DVDs Official, Free

i_kenefick — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:15:32 EST

@Dougolis: There is no way that the movie studios will allow these to be distributed via rental versions of DVD's. There would be no reason to buy a DVD then.

i_kenefick

iTunes/iPod-Ready Digital Copies on Fox DVDs Official, Free

Noobs-R-Us — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:14:59 EST

Never mind...I should have read it more closely...

Noobs-R-Us

iTunes/iPod-Ready Digital Copies on Fox DVDs Official, Free

Noobs-R-Us — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:14:02 EST

Netflix, Netflix, Netflix! How would the DRM work? Humm, Stevie introduces it but failed to explain how it would work. How do we get it to download into iTunes? Can we download it without iTunes?

Noobs-R-Us

iTunes/iPod-Ready Digital Copies on Fox DVDs Official, Free

The Chad — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:02:11 EST

what about that simpsons movie dvd I got for christmas? SOL I guess

The Chad

iTunes/iPod-Ready Digital Copies on Fox DVDs Official, Free

daftrok — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:56:03 EST

This is for Fox DVDs it doesn't matter where you get it from.

daftrok

iTunes/iPod-Ready Digital Copies on Fox DVDs Official, Free

DougOLis — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:51:52 EST

Will DVDs from Netflix include the same features?

DougOLis

iTunes/iPod-Ready Digital Copies on Fox DVDs Official, Free

ITsPennywise — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:42:06 EST

I hope this becomes standard with all the movie studios that are already on board with the iTunes movie rentals.

Will there be any special marking on the DVD coverbox letting the customer know that an "iTunes copy" is included?

ITsPennywise

iTunes/iPod-Ready Digital Copies on Fox DVDs Official, Free

BadBoyNDSU — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:22:40 EST

Sweet! Now I can pirate high quality iPod videos without having to re-encode them. Thanks Apple!

BadBoyNDSU