Ruh-roh, Why are Quicktime 1080p trailers are disappearing?

There is no evidence that the movie industry was involved in the removal of the downloadable trailers. This is how rumors get started. I speculated on their involvement in an earlier post - it was just that, speculation. There is no way to know for sure unless Apple makes a statement (which probably won't help much even if and when they do).

For the current moment, it is what it is. Rather than continue to speculate, I for one think it would be more productive if this group could collaborate on solid documentation of the "work arounds" to aquire (legacy) 1080p trailers before they disappear as well. I've tried using curl and wget on the command line and both tools only download the 4K pointer. The pointer file then loads the trailer data into the QT container when opened. Not an ideal scenario if you're looking to maintain the trailer for posterity.

If anyone knows of a more straight forward process for aquiring the 1080p trailer, it would be much appreciated if you would share that process (in some detail). Thanks in advance.

With regard to the big picture, it's difficult, if not impossible, to know what Apple's endgame is here without more information.

Giving it some though, downloading preceeded streaming. Once streaming technology was perfected and the average household internet speed increased, something like this scenario was inevitable. Downloading options were probably left in place soley to avoid just this kind of reaction from the minority of Apple's customers; digital packrats with larger-than-average monitors.

OK. That made me chuckle. 🙂

I am definitely a digital packrat.

The problem with the whole streaming and internet application movement though is it's being led by people who live in areas with fiber optic connections and almost no internet downtime. There are still a LOT of people in America, let alone the world, who don't always have an internet connection and definitely not a good one.

I vacation every year at Barkley Lake in Kentucky and there is NO internet connection and maybe an EDGE cell network, if you can maintain a connection. Apple wants us to stream everything, but if my only copy of movies was on the cloud we would be out of luck. Not to mention there isn't a digital version of a movie yet that can stand up to blu-ray quality. Try streaming a 30gig movie and tell me how that plan works.

Our connection at work is pathetic (slow and unreliable) and we have that same EDGE cell network. I can't even email pictures from my phone for work reasons.

I know that's a little off topic, but not much. We had a service that did what we wanted and worked. This wasn't a feature we were asking to add, it was already there. Now, many will not be able to view trailers unless they can find an internet connection that is stable and fast enough to use.

Sometimes Apple just does things that leaves their loyal users flabergasted. No explanation, just remove, change whatever. I used to be a regular visitor for Apple Movie trailers. I'll just go to hd trailers dot net.

***** that apple did this regardless of the reason

anyway its not as complicated as your all making it I uploaded a video depicting "how to Download And/Or View Apple Trailers In 1080p" This is VERY VERY EASY to do it takes less then 30 seconds to do, "3 clicks" and one "copy and paste" and your done! its not going to get any easier then this lol , no additional software required as long as you have Safari and QuickTime player your good to go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9OCCKjLgKU <--- "how to Download And/Or View Apple Trailers In 1080p"

hope this helps ENJOY 🙂

Well I'm probably the last to notice since I basically stopped going to the trailers section once this started, but the 1080p downloads are back. Still can't download from isolated movies for some reason, but 90 percent are working again. In case anyone tracking this also hasn't been checking the trailers area.