Digital copies that come with Blu-Ray actually expire (1 Viewer)

[Marvin]

On an unrelated point, does BD-Live content expire?

 

[ATimson]

Originally Posted by Marvin

On an unrelated point, does BD-Live content expire?

Umm. Depends on what you mean by "expire". Since BD-Live is, well, live, companies are free to update or kill the sites as they see fit--including deleting existing content. There's already been some lost from Star Trek Season 1.

 

[SVTStingRay]

i love digital copies with my blurays, i throw out the disk (cause i dont use them anyways) then reuse the bigger cases for some bluray collections.

 

[Yumbo]

Same thing happened to me with Risky Business, and Warner replied with:

"Hello,

Thank you for your interest in the Digital Copy feature for Risky Business. Unfortunately this feature has officially been discontinued. We appreciate your interest in this feature and hope to provide many more like it in the months to come.

Thanks again!

DIGITAL COPY SUPPORT"

 

[cafink]

"Digital copy": studio retards my ability to do with the DVD as I like, offers a crippled substitute, and pretends to be doing me a favor.

Needless to say, I agree with Andrew.

 

[ManW_TheUncool]

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Same thing happened to me with Risky Business, and Warner replied with:

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[Sam Favate]

The more I think about it, the digital copy discs are kind of like the DivX discs that competed with DVD in the early days, expiring after a time unless you acted.

Both are failures.

 

[Viper]

This is only going to get worse. Look at the gaming industry. The next generation of consoles may have more downloadable games than physical media because the companies hate people reselling the discs. They want to be able to kill games completely when they're done with them. Microsoft is almost there anyway, since their consoles are almost certain to fail after a while. When they quit making 360s, they'll probably end up pretty rare fast. Just like this iTunes garbage offering shit quality lossy audio files that are riddled with DRM...and they wonder why people prefer piracy.

 

[Aaron Silverman]

Exhibit A: the PSP Go. Games for it are download only!

 

[Stephen_J_H]

Originally Posted by Viper ">[/url]

This is only going to get worse. Look at the gaming industry. The next generation of consoles may have more downloadable games than physical media because the companies hate people reselling the discs. They want to be able to kill games completely when they're done with them. Microsoft is almost there anyway, since their consoles are almost certain to fail after a while. When they quit making 360s, they'll probably end up pretty rare fast. Just like this iTunes garbage offering shit quality lossy audio files that are riddled with DRM...and they wonder why people prefer piracy.