No Burn, No Sale
I am a really big fan of the iTunes Music Store. It improved my music buying experience. One example from early in iTunes life was one day my daughter came home from school and said she needed to buy “The Planets” by Holst and wanted to go to a store and get a CD. About a half an hour later I presented her with a freshly burned CD of a nice recording of the classic piece. Daddy was a hero and little magic that day!
So it was with that in mind that I anticipated the day when we could buy movies the same way. Sigh, it was not to be. Apple, either by choice or coercion has really goofed up with the new iTunes Store. I can’t buy a movie and burn it to a DVD with my shiny new Mac Book Pro with its dual-layer DVD burner. Why is this so important that it is a complete deal-breaker for me? In a word, kids.
I have kids who want to watch movies from any TV in the house. They will watch them over and over again until they wear them out. We have a DVD player in the mini-van that is fabulous for trips. We can’t tie up my computer or any other computer in the house for this purpose. And we won’t even consider getting a movie from ANY online source if we can’t burn a copy to a real DVD.
No Burn, No Sale
Sheesh, for ten bucks, you can wait a few months and buy the DVD on clearance at a store, and watch it anywhere you want.