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I may be crazy but I just pay to rent movies on my Apple TV. $5 or so for a movie once it’s available to rent, watch it, and I’m done. Essentially every movie i
by ninkendo 3y ago
I may be crazy but I just pay to rent movies on my Apple TV. $5 or so for a movie once it’s available to rent, watch it, and I’m done. Essentially every movie is available this way… if its on blu-ray, it’s on the Apple TV. If we know we’re really going to like a movie we sometimes buy it. I know we don’t really “own” the movies because they’re DRM’d, but I feel like Apple will keep them available for quite a long time, essentially “forever”, and if they ever lose the rights or shut the service down I’ll feel a lot more justified in pirating any movies I lost access to.
Decades ago my wife and I would go to blockbuster every Friday night and pick the movie we wanted to watch for the weekend. Now we do the same thing, just by streaming it instead of getting a physical copy and having to take it back. I have no complaints.
- peab 3y agoI do the same thing on Youtube. It's incredibly convenient.
- jeffbee 3y agoThere are tons and tons of films on disc but not on Apple TV or any streaming service. Just off the top of my head: Hal Hartley's "The Unbelievable Truth", along with almost every other Hal Hartley film.
- lern_too_spel 3y agoYou'll lose access as soon as you stop using Apple devices.
- ninkendo 3y agoThat’s probably the most realistic way I’d lose access, yes. But so far no competing set top box has been able to beat the ATV in the overall experience, so I’ve been continuing to use it by choice. Every time I go to a friends house and experience how terrible all the competing bargain bin chromecast/shield/fireTV shit is, watching every button press take seconds to result in a screen update, taking ages to type in anything (vs ATV’s dictation or just the built in remote app on iOS) I feel more and more confident in this. The current gen ATV is ridiculously responsive and quick by comparison.
- lern_too_spel 3y agoThe clunky LRUD interaction model is much slower than simply finding what you like on your phone and casting, which even my TV supports.
- easton 3y agoApple has apps for other platforms that at least allow playback of stuff you’ve bought, even if you can’t buy more. I’ve watched mad men through on a Fire TV on Apple TV, worked fine.
- lern_too_spel 3y agoNot on my Android phone or on my Linux computer.
- easton 3y agohttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details/Apple_TV?id=com.apple.atve.sony.appletv&hl=en_SG https://play.google.com/store/apps/details/Apple_TV?id=com.a...
- lern_too_spel 3y agoAs I said, it doesn't work on Android phones. This app is only compatible with AndroidTV, and even there, the reviews are terrible.
- bombcar 3y agoHow do you “rent to own” for $5? That’s usually just the “rent for 48 hours” (which is totally fine, I’ll pay to rent digitally and then buy the Blu-ray if I want to see it again: anything watched twice will probably be watched many times.)
- ninkendo 3y agoThis sentence was the key one: > If we know we’re really going to like a movie we sometimes buy it. I meant buying instead of renting in this case. Renting costs $5-ish, the “buy” option is often $20.