Convert iTunes movies to DVD

I guess I should have done my home work. I "assumed" that movies worked the same way the music end of it worked, and found that it did not, to say the least, I was a little frustrated. All I intended to do, was download my movie, and sit down with my wife in front of the large screen TV, and just enjoy it, that did not happen, and it did upset me, putting it nicely. Comparing this to a book, I don't know about that. I buy a book, I can take it anywhere and read it when and where I want. I had NO intention of slapping a new cover on the downloaded movie and sell it. If it came down to it, I could very easily print a copy of the book I checked out from a library and still take it where I wanted.

If anything, I have learned my lesson. It is still my "opinion", that if I pay as much as what I did for the movie, I should be able to watch it on any device I choose to watch it on.

I think everyone here would strongly agree with your opinion. However, the content owners do not, and as long as their current opinions remain in force (and I see nothing to indicate that they are in favor of anything other than stronger, not lesser, copy protection), there's nothing Apple or any other legal download store can do.

'nuff said.

Why would they need to do that when there are so many really cheap DVD players on the market? I doubt that Apple could make anything that could improve on, or be cheaper than, one of the many DVD players already on the market coupled with the Apple TV.

You can suggest such a device to Apple via their feedback pages:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

but I think the chances of Apple seeing a business opportunity in such a device to be vanishingly small.

Again, 'nuff said on the subject.

No method is available for movies which contain DRM. If a movie doesn't, you need to use a dedicated video DVD creation application and not iTunes.

DVDs created in iTunes are for backup or transport only and aren't usable on standalone players.

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iTunes will fail for this reason alone. As users massive video collections of purchased content overwhelm their HDD. They will cease to continue purchasing vs. pay for online storage or local backup. Apple must change it's model or fail.

TCC Bob wrote:
iTunes will fail for this reason alone. As users massive video collections of purchased content overwhelm their HDD. They will cease to continue purchasing vs. pay for online storage or local backup. Apple must change it's model or fail.

When a 2 terabyte drive is less than $100 (just bought a second one yesterday), this is not the problem you seem to think.

What about the claims of of some of these software companies being able to remove the DRM? I purchased the movie, I should be able to burn it to a DVD and watch it on any TV I choose. I buy music downloads from ITunes, and can burn them, why not movies??

Mark Betournay wrote:
What about the claims of of some of these software companies being able to remove the DRM?

If I recall, most of the U.S. based companies have been slapped down by the courts.

I purchased the movie, I should be able to burn it to a DVD and watch it on any TV I choose.

No, you didn't. You bought a license for certain types of use of the content. You did not buy a license to burn the movie to DVD. If you had purchased a DVD of the movie, the reverse would be true. You would not have purchased the right to rip the movie to digital format. Some DVDs, which generally cost more, come with an additional license to download the digital content.

I buy music downloads from ITunes, and can burn them, why not movies??

Two entirely different industries. Music went digital quite a while before video and the content providers were caught unawares. It's a pretty safe bet that, if they could, the music producers would prevent you from doing a lot of things.

Ten bucks is ten bucks. I will not make the same mistake twice! I paid for the "certain types of use", which SHOULD include being able to watch the movie on my big screen TV or anywhere else as far as that goes! iTunes, you screw me once, shame on you, screw me twice, shame on me!! Won't happen again.

As far as I know, no seller of digital movies allows what you want. And, just because you want it, doesn't mean that anyone is under any obligation to provide it to you.

I easily and legally watch all of my iTunes movie and television purchase on my big screen TV, along with YouTube and Netflix Streaming. However, as you're no longer going to purchase from Apple, I doubt you've any interest in an Apple TV.

Why pay $300.00 for an Apple TV, just to watch an iTunes movie, when I have a perfectly good HD TV already? What I will continue to do is, buy a DVD movie for $15.00 from Walmart and watch it when and where and on what I choose. To heck with iTunes. I will however continue to buy my music from iTunes and burn my CD's, until they screw that up too.

What about the claims of of some of these software companies being able to remove the DRM?

Meg was correct; the companies that attempted to do this legally were sued by the content owners and lost, so they were forced to take the products off of the market.

As to burning movies purchased from the iTunes Store to video DVD, as has been said, it's not by Apple's choice. The content owners will not allow Apple to make that feature available to you. If you need your movies and shows available on a standard TV and cannot or don't want to connect your computer to the TV, by all means buy your content on DVD. The record companies, by the way, tried to incorporate copy protection on CDs, and they still would like to, but it failed so miserably that they've for now at least abandoned the idea. But it could come back, and if it does, Apple won't have any choice but to abide by the law in those cases as well.

BTW, the current Apple TV is $99 US.

Regards.

Why pay $300.00 for an Apple TV, just to watch an iTunes movie, when I have a perfectly good HD TV already?

An AppleTV ($99, not $300) is a network device to send movies/music from your computer or the internet to a television.
It is not a television screen.

And you cannot make DVDs for the same reason you cannot purchase a book, slap a new cover on it with your name and sell it.
Copyright law.

Then Apple needs to come out with their own DVD player that can be registered. One that will not only play iTunes movies, but any other DVD, problem solved. If I could do that, I would spend much money on their movies.