The pallaver of downloaded movies

[Arrowfoot]

This is odd. You should be able to play movies offline if you paid for it or rented it and viewing within the rental period. Try re-installing the app.

Key feature of the product is to view offline.

 

[Oldhippy]

You'd have difficulty playing a dvd on your phone or tablet though.

I cannot think why I would ever want to watch anything on a phone, don't have a tablet.

 

[MontyVeda]

Ok we get it. You don't download movies. That's fine.

Some people do because they find it more convenient than DVD.

 

[srw]

DVD is about as physical as a vinyl record... it's stuff printed onto stuff. No point getting all precious about it

Errrr..... No.

A vinyl record is literally a sound wave cast into physical form. If you play a record without electronic amplification it still plays. Which is why, back in the day, some people got funny about only buying AAA recordings rather than DDA.

A DVD, a CD, an MP3, a dodgy torrent download, are qualitatively different - the information is encoded into digital form, and the identical code can be stored in any medium at all and recovered as long as you have the appropriate decoder. You could, in theory, write a track with pencil and paper using dots and dashes in MP3 format and perfectly recover it.

 

[MontyVeda]

like i said, it's stuff on stuff.

 

[fossyant]

DVD every time. Never would download music or movie. The modern tech sucks the soul out of having bookshelves, records, CD's. Give the physical thing every time.

Old duffer !

 

[fossyant]

You'd have difficulty playing a dvd on your phone or tablet though.

And a DVD is only SD, so rubbish !

 

[matticus]

Ermmm...you do realise that DVD is not the "physical thing" - it's a digital recording. Just checking. Oh, and DVD is pants when you compare it to Blue Ray. (Other HD systems (4K) are available)...but if you want to stick to PAL 625 lines at 50 Hertz, then feel free to do so...May your viewing be fuzzy, and your colours be phase shifted!

I prefer to have the actors actually in the room with me.

Sure, it costs more, but if you want the most authentic experience ...

 

[fossyant]

I prefer to have the actors actually in the room with me.

Sure, it costs more, but if you want the most authentic experience ...

Star Wars wouldn't look much good though !

 

[rualexander]

I cannot think why I would ever want to watch anything on a phone, don't have a tablet.

You carry a laptop, pc, or TV around with you whenever you are away from home and might want to watch a film or something?

 

[captain nemo1701]

I'd just get a blu-ray. No need to download, WiFi, licences, online subscriptions etc or anything.
Occasionally, old school is better.

 

[fossyant]

I'd just get a blu-ray. No need to download, WiFi, licences, online subscriptions etc or anything.
Occasionally, old school is better.

Aye, but you've got to go out and buy it.

 

[MontyVeda]

Blu-ray quality videos can be downloaded... and the best thing is, you don't need the silly blu-ray player

 

[Alex321]

You carry a laptop, pc, or TV around with you whenever you are away from home and might want to watch a film or something?

A lot of us will very rarely want to watch anything when away from home, except possibly in the evenings on business trips - when we probably will have a laptop, and a TV available in the hotel room.

 

[tyred]

Yes it's too much palaver.

It's so much easier to drive to Xtravision and rent the video and come home and find the previous customer mangled the tape and stuck it back together with sellotape.