This happened with two movies before I thought to whitelist the site. On the second try, the site told me the code had already been redeemed and that I should email customer support. I attempted to redeem a code and it failed to launch iTunes on the first try. But the biggest strike against Fox was their site did not interact well against my privacy blocker (EFF’s Privacy Badger). I kept mistyping it because the code didn’t contain an S to contrast against the 5. The font does not easily differentiate between the letter S and number 5. Quick! What are the last four characters of this code? A mark against them is that I actually needed to use that code because of the font. A mark in their favor is that they include a QR code to ease typing in an ugly 16-character code. Would redeem again.įox’s system was hopeful but flawed. Go to the website, type in the code, let it launch iTunes. Of all the movies, the only one that worked flawlessly was through Disney’s system. I’ve seen diagrams of the infrastructure mess backing the format, and may be predisposed against it because of this knowledge. The last time I had to deal with a digital movie (the Veronica Mars movie), it was a nightmare, but I figured I’d try it out again to see if the landscape changed.įull disclosure: I work at a video company and have written code to repackage movies in Ultraviolet format. I noticed that everything comes with a digital redemption code now. This weekend I broke out the sleeves and label maker to get the job done. I ran out of sleeves and kept forgetting to order more until recently. I had already ripped them to a digital format, but the boxes had stacked up. Over the past few months, I’ve picked up a Blu-ray discs of movies I’ve enjoyed in the theater (including The Martian, Mad Max Fury Road, Star Wars, Ghostbusters, and Deadpool). This results in a format that I can watch on the TV with Plex, load onto the iPhone or iPad, or even do silly things like extract gif loops. I like the format because I can extract movies into DRM-free files using Handbrake and (if Blu-ray) MakeMKV. Something like 300+ at last count.I downsized A few years ago, compressing several tall bookshelves of movies to three shoebox-equvalent boxes by ditching the packaging and placing the discs in sleeves.
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