Comments on: Why the Apple iTunes Movie Store And Its DRM Sucks

By: Apple hater

Apple hater — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:35:00 +0000

Dude you think that is bad? I just bought $50 worth of a Movie Season called Legend of the seeker… Just to find out i cannot convert the file or make it play on my PS3 for viewin on my big screen tv..Apple SUCKS!!!

By: iphonebooy

iphonebooy — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:40:45 +0000

If you move Apple's stuff,you need software. iPod transfer has another name,ipod copy or copy ipod,same meaning: Get your ipod stuff out. http://www.ipod-copy-transfer.com/

By: Nick Robertson

Nick Robertson — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 06:19:02 +0000

I agree will you all and luckily have only wasted a few pounds on music downloaded from ITMS, I would rather go out and buy the material on CD/DVD, at least then its mine to do with as I please.
I loathe itunes music store and will never ever use it again. Waste of time and money. Don’t bother.

By: Christian J. Koch

Christian J. Koch — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 22:44:30 +0000

I-tunes does suck!

Great post about it though.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:38:05 +0000

Where did he download it from initially that the quality was poor?? Seeds for the Office in high def XviD with no commercials are all over the bittorrent tracker sites. I can’t believe someone with multiple media center PCs didn’t know where to get it from.

By: tracelan

tracelan — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 23:26:30 +0000

I downloaded an episode of Battlestar also and would have to agree the video quality sucks. Not only that but you can’t burn it to a DVD. At least not a DVD that a DVD player can play. I didn’t want to watch it on my computer, I wanted to watch it on my TV. I assumed since I can download a song from itunes and burn a CD I could do the same with a video, I was wrong. That was the last video I will buy from itunes. I haven’t bought a song from itunes since then either.

By: helio9000

helio9000 — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:44:20 +0000

The quality of iTunes audio isn’t anywhere near perfect. It is good enough for most people but there is a clear difference between an iTunes song and one ripped @ high quality. The Apple store works because of convenience which is bigger factor to many people than quality.

By: David

David — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 20:10:00 +0000

What I think is the DRM isn’t mature enough.
I think this is only a system to convince the company that there’s a control on the media and it can prevent piracy.
I don’t think DRM is ready….. and I think there should be a better system that could do the job for the client (user… we) and that can satisfy the companies.
But there wasn’t enough time to develop such a complicated program for the business like Apple, Napster who need something that works to make more money in shortest time.
You have experienced a great example about the “dark side” of the DRM.

By: IT: Interesting Tangents

IT: Interesting Tangents — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 18:04:23 +0000

The case against the iTunes video store, or a rare rant against Apple and PMPs

As much as I am in favor of PMPs, and as much as I generally like Apple’s products there are plenty of problems surrounding the both. A good story illustrating this problem is here. Basically it was someone who ran into massive DRM-related proble…

By: Michael Dickey

Michael Dickey — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:09:49 +0000

I had a similar problem trying to download episodes from iTunes of Battlestar Galactica that my Tivo failed to record (well, it recorded and then deleted them because I had the prefs setup wrong and waited too long to watch it).

I wouldn't mind paying $2 per episode if it just worked -- even though I subscribe to SciFi and own a Tivo. I don't even care much about the DRM since I would only watch it once and then delete it anyway.

After the first episode I tried to watch, the quality was so bad that I too just downloaded torrents of the rest. I wrote a letter to Apple complaining about the quality -- and surprise, never heard back. I knew about the iPod resolutions but hoped that they offered higher resolutions for TV users or that (I know it's silly) the encoding would be so good that it would still look OK. I guess TV users just don't matter as much to Apple as iPod users.

I'm an avid Mac user -- I own five of them currently. It's just sad to watch Apple and the TV industry to be missing out on such a great opportunity.