triple play discs - are we being ripped off ?

TALON1973

TALON1973

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a slight bugbear has hit me recently .... i like to pick up the odd "triple play" blu ray discs ... in the event i may , one day like to watch them on the go . at thats not the case .

but i have found .... to me dismay that several films have date expired tags in small writing on them. i came across this when i decided to start moving some of my digital downloads to pc just to bacjk-up what i already have... and came across teh dreaded date problem ....

now to me this is a con..... i've paid good mopney for these versions and expect top be able to use said feature whenever i see fit ... i got no gripe if its been used as a code before ( 2nd hand) , but if i pay for it , i want it .

anyone else got views on this ?
 
TALON1973 said:
well thats the shady way of doing it .... but i liek my stuff legit ... and i dont think a rip works on a ipad/ iphone
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You will have to re buy all your content through iTunes.

Unless you just rip the content off the disc... You bought it, you can do want you want with it. You can convert it to any format you want, so it will play on an iPad/iPhone.

That digital copy version will probably not work on a portable device anyway. My experience is that they have so much DRM on them, that you need to play the files using proprietary media players or plugins.
 
kierenharrold said:
You will have to re buy all your content through iTunes.

Unless you just rip the content off the disc... You bought it, you can do want you want with it. You can convert it to any format you want, so it will play on an iPad/iPhone.

That digital copy version will probably not work on a portable device anyway. My experience is that they have so much DRM on them, that you need to play the files using proprietary media players or plugins.
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I agree. Just rip films to mkv or avi. The DRM means that it will only work on certain things.
 
TALON1973 said:
well thats the shady way of doing it .... but i liek my stuff legit ... and i dont think a rip works on a ipad/ iphone
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You can rip DVDs to work on an iPhone. Probably Blu Rays too, if you know what you're doing.

I imagine you'd get better quality doing it yourself, as well.
 
I think the OPs problem isn't that he cant rip it himself its that its been advertised as having a digital copy and when he has gone to use it he cant because its expired.
Its pretty annoying and if this is what a lot of them are like then I think watchdog or ofcom should step in. Its false advertising
 
I think it's odd that they don't say on the outside of the box that it can expire, but equally if you've bought it and opened it I think it's a bit unreasonable to get worked up on account of not reading the slip of paper. And from a purely pragmatic point of view... Just rip it yourself. No one will care.
 
vintage-x said:
I think the OPs problem isn't that he cant rip it himself its that its been advertised as having a digital copy and when he has gone to use it he cant because its expired.
Its pretty annoying and if this is what a lot of them are like then I think watchdog or ofcom should step in. Its false advertising
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this was my exact point.... i got caught out once .. but now once i buy a triple play disc i but teh difital copy on itunes straight away thesse days.
you tend to find teh expiry date is in very small writing at teh back of the case :( but i still think this is a con , as if youare buying them on release day your are paying that extra for the 3rd version ( digital ) .
now i know we all can wait and get them cheaper a month or two down the line but thats besides the point. its called "triple play" for a reason , not "triple play until we say so" .
 
If the digital copy code has expired or isn't working for any other reason, just contact the distrubutor via their website and they will issue a new code.

I've done it a couple of times where I bought double/triple play films and the iTunes code wasn't valid, easy, painless and took less than 24 hours to get a valid code.
 
Eddie182 said:
If the digital copy code has expired or isn't working for any other reason, just contact the distrubutor via their website and they will issue a new code.

I've done it a couple of times where I bought double/triple play films and the iTunes code wasn't valid, easy, painless and took less than 24 hours to get a valid code.
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wont they ask for proof of purchase ? how can they tell its not a 2nd hand copy ?
 
robgmun said:
As long as you keep it for personal use and not giving it to friends after then it's entirely legit
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no its not. It's not legal to circumvent DRM.

You can legally make a personal back up but you cannot do so if it requires circumventing DRM.
 
I have to be a little bemused at people that have a problem with doing tiny little things like this in there own home simply because it breaks some civil law that protects monster cooperations and have nothing with morality.
 
I found this out this morning when trying to use Transformers 2.

Really annoying that something you pay extra for expires!
 
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