03-10-2010, 10:00 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Digital Copy Codes & Downloads Expire Too Soon
Have you ever seen that screen before? If so, you'll share my frustration. In the instance above, it was the Speed Racer Blu-ray disc I got as part of a promotion when I purchased the piece-of-junk Samsung BDP-1500. It took me a couple of months to watch Speed Racer, but when I did I saw the Digital Copy coupon and went to download it - and was presented the above error. OK, sure, it was my own fault for not getting the download right away - but it was my first purchase of Blu-ray discs and I'd never used digital copy at that point. Last week I bought a regular DVD at Costco, and upon opening the package I saw a digital copy coupon. Cool! I used it the same day I purchased the DVD and guess what? It was already expired. What the heck? I think digital copy is a great advancement - well, it will be once they get Zune support - but it's frustrating to see the movie companies dangle it out as a carrot then snatch it away after only a few months. Are the bandwidth expenses really so high that they can't offer it for, say, a year after the DVD or Blu-ray comes out?
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03-10-2010, 10:22 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 518
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Oh Joy - another thing to worry about!
We did not buy any blue ray disks until late last year, and have never used (or tried to use) a "digital copy," even though we have several movies that promise "Includes Digital Copy."
I ASSUMED that "Includes Digital Copy" meant just that, and fully expected to find a hard copy of the Digital Version of the movie enclosed in the box.
Guess we had better go check out the appropriate blue ray disks... 
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03-10-2010, 10:30 PM
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Thoughts Media Review Team
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 49
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The "digital copy" is crap. I've experienced this with other movies. At first, you think it's great!
But then you realize that you have to install a special viewer on your computer to watch the movie, making the movie completely non-portable. And, even after you do all this, your download may expire as well.
Not to mention having to register at another web site (with yet another password to remember) to get the download.
WORTHLESS!!
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03-10-2010, 11:13 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 1,887
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I ignore Digital copies or give the codes away.
It is worthless anyway.
One thing, though; the original *mandatory* Digital copy spec for HD-DVD was for *on-disk* copies using key-disk DRM. It was one of the reasons the studios preferred BluRay instead. Heaven forbid we get to *legally* use the content we buy for more than one platform, right?
If I ever actually need low-res digital copies of my disks, I'll just rip'em myself.
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03-11-2010, 02:46 AM
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Mystic
Join Date: Sep 2006
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Of the Blu-Rays I've purchased all of them had an actual MPEG4 copy of the movie on a seperate disk.
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03-11-2010, 07:23 AM
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Executive Editor
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Macguy59
Of the Blu-Rays I've purchased all of them had an actual MPEG4 copy of the movie on a seperate disk.
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That's what the Speed Racer disc was - and when I put in the code, I got the above error from the disc.
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03-11-2010, 07:22 AM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ron Hostetter
But then you realize that you have to install a special viewer on your computer to watch the movie, making the movie completely non-portable. And, even after you do all this, your download may expire as well.
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Hmm. Are we sure we're talking about the same thing? Every digital copy I've seen is either an iTunes-based movie, or a Windows Media Player-based movie. In both cases, you type in the code, it unlocks the movie on the disc, and it transfers to your computer. No strange players, online registration, etc.
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