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It took me about half an hour of constant retries for the rented Apple TV movie I downloaded for offline use to play. Each time, for some reason or another, was
by ecf 5y ago
It took me about half an hour of constant retries for the rented Apple TV movie I downloaded for offline use to play. Each time, for some reason or another, was blocked with the error message “This movie can only be played on displays that support HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection)”.
I was on a plane with no internet, so troubleshooting the error was impossible. Furthermore, I can’t test playback of a movie in the future because doing so starts the three day expiration timer.
In the future I guarantee I’ll be torrenting.
- laurent92 5y agoTorrenting + crossing a border… Not a good idea. Even having “photos for personal use” while crossing the boarder isn’t a good idea. I’m so afraid of TSA…
- goodpoint 5y ago"crossing A border" is not the same thing as "crossing the US border".
- jimktrains2 5y agoThe TSA handles neither customs nor border patrol.
- garbagecoder 5y agoRight, but they do handle the security screening and it’s all DHS
- donmcronald 5y agoI have Apple TV for the year because I got a new iPad and I still "pirated" Foundation because the Apple TV app for Roku isn't very good. I hate the interface, the playback skips (very infrequently), and the subtitle support is pretty bad. There's no way Plex and Emby should be better than Apple's equivalent, but they are IMO.
- vetinari 5y agoOn the other hand, I was actually impressed, that Apple TV appeared on Android TV in the first place and that it is actually decent (at least on Nvidia Shield). My only nitpick is, that for some reason the default subtitles are "language + SDH" and not just "language".
- matheusmoreira 5y ago> I hate the interface, the playback skips (very infrequently), and the subtitle support is pretty bad. Yeah. The video player straight up sucks. We had better software than this decades ago. There's just no way these things will ever be able to compete with something like mpv but we're forced to use them because it's the only legal way to watch something.
- 3np 5y ago> Plex and Emby Also Jellyfin, the FLOSS Emby fork that has taken on its own life and has recently gotten a lot more stable
- cm2187 5y agoPlus if you go on holiday for a few days, you will likely have crappy wifi, and you don't know in advance what movie you will be in the mood to watch. These streaming services just do not work for me.
- geraltofrivia 5y agoI’ve stopped relying on offline downloads (on netflix) since upon crossing national boundaries, the offline content is deleted. As an expat who travels back to India once a blue moon (and has shitty internet back home), I now pirate any content I plan to see during my vacations.
- brokenmachine 5y agoWow, that's terrible. To paraphrase Chris Rock talking about OJ, "now I'm not saying you should have pirated... But I understand!"
- oppositelock 5y agoI've hit this myself as well. I no longer purchase streaming media, but instead, I buy Bluray's or DVD's. I rip them to H.264 with Handbrake and use those for travel. Yes, it's a bit annoying, but much less annoying than the "convenience" of streaming video and offline downloads.
- tharkun__ 5y agoCaveat: this is probably still not legal. Just a comparison / thought experiment. Are you planning on keeping the Apple TV subscription? Are you only going to to torrent something that is currently running on Apple TV while you have a paid for subscription? If so, what would really be so different from you "taping" something on regular TV back in the VHS days? (apart from it nowadays probably not being legal - go figure).