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Lionsgate Adding iTunes Digital Copy on DVD and Blu-ray Discs

Monday March 10, 2008 8:58 am PDT by Arnold Kim
Lionsgate announced that they are working with Apple to provide iTunes Digital Copies on select DVD and Blu-ray releases.

Just like movies purchased from the iTunes Store, an iTunes Digital Copy can effortlessly be transferred to iTunes and then viewed on a PC or Mac, iPod with video, iPhone or on widescreen television with Apple TV.


The first Liongate DVD/Blu-ray disc to include an iTunes Digital Copy will be Rambo due for release on May 27th. Fox was the first to start including iTunes digital copies on their DVDs.

The process of copying the movie to iTunes involves entering a unique code into iTunes. The movie is then transferred to iTunes, allowing you to sync the movie with your iPod, iPhone or Apple TV. Each DVD (unique code) will allow digital transfer to only one iTunes library.
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rubberduck007
51 months ago
Good news!

Is the new Rambo any good? Generally top news though.... what about UK details and ROW?
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bigandy
51 months ago
I really like this idea.



I haven't seen much news of it over here, though.



:rolleyes:
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2A Batterie
51 months ago
What about HD DVD though????









;)
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entropy1980
51 months ago
Interesting that Blu-Ray is mentioned considering no Macs currently ship with a Blu-Ray drive... could this be changing soon? This may be a hint....
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rubberduck007
51 months ago

What about HD DVD though????


;)



is he 'aving a laff?... is he 'aving a laff?
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tringo
51 months ago
Good news.

Anybody know how big these digital copies are? It would seem pointless to copy a DVD if it was 4GB. You barely get one movie on an iPhone.
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bytethese
51 months ago
Sheesh, finally! I can have some "fair use" with my purchased movies?? :) It's SUCH a pain to rip my DVD's, having a digital copy to import into my Library would be most welcomed!
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ebouwman
51 months ago

Interesting that Blu-Ray is mentioned considering no Macs currently ship with a Blu-Ray drive... could this be changing soon? This may be a hint....


Are you serious? A hint? This is not a hint. They go on to say that sony has been talking to apple, and if that's not hint enough they say that maybe apple will adopt the blu-ray drive.
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entropy1980
51 months ago

Are you serious? A hint? This is not a hint. They go on to say that sony has been talking to apple, and if that's not hint enough they say that maybe apple will adopt the blu-ray drive.


By hint I meant that it's coming sooner rather than later.
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spice weasel
51 months ago

Good news.

Anybody know how big these digital copies are? It would seem pointless to copy a DVD if it was 4GB. You barely get one movie on an iPhone.


I have a similar, but opposite, concern: as an AppleTV owner, I don't want a low-rez copy that will look great on an iPod but crappy on my HDTV. For Blu-Ray this won't be a problem. But for DVD, I can't see how they will fit the full movie and an iTunes mp4 copy that will be of high enough quality for my tastes. HB encodes at 2500 kbps and AAC+AC3 weigh in at over 2 gigs (sometimes well over) for most movies.

Maybe if studios did away with all of the worthless "extras" they include on DVDs, there would be enough room for high quality iTunes copies.
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