Apple and Fox announce iTunes-ready digital copies on discs

by Donald Melanson, posted Jan 15th 2008 at 11:56AM

It's not exactly a new idea, but Apple and Fox have just announced that DVDs from the studio will include iTunes-ready digital copies of the movies from here on out. That feature (which thankfully comes at no extra charge) will first be available on the Family Guy Blue Harvest disc, which will pack a file that you can "instantly move to iTunes." From there, you'll be able to view it on your computer, iPod, iPhone or Apple TV, with a unique code provided to ensure that you don't spread it around any further. Somewhat interestingly, while Fox's Jim Gianopulos mentioned both DVD and Blu-ray in his presentation, the official press release (linked below) seems to indicate that the digital copies will only be on DVDs, at least for now.

Tags: apple, breaking news, BreakingNews, Macworld 2008, Macworld2008

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Justin E @ Jan 15th 2008 1:39PM

Will this be available on Redbox copies?

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kastonie @ Jan 15th 2008 2:00PM

c;mon man keep it a secret so no one find out shhhhhh!

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nathan @ Jan 15th 2008 2:19PM

This is rediculous. Do you have to take every bullet from Steve's speech and make it breaking news, while during CES you had a handful of breaking news items? I have an iPhone, but this is nuts.

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kL @ Jan 15th 2008 2:23PM

Will they have comedies like Fox News as well? ;)

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Bill Reals @ Jan 15th 2008 2:39PM

And can I just rent the movie on Netflix or Blockbuster and load it into Itunes?

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Galley @ Jan 15th 2008 3:30PM

Will this be available on Blu-ray Discs?

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Stoned Hippy @ Jan 15th 2008 5:29PM

Or HD-DVDs... hahahahaha...

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Steveo @ Jan 15th 2008 5:49PM

From the 10 lines of text that came with the headline above - "while Fox's Jim Gianopulos mentioned both DVD and Blu-ray in his presentation, the official press release (linked below) seems to indicate that the digital copies will only be on DVDs, at least for now."

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Matt @ Jan 15th 2008 5:19PM

iTunes only, eh? I guess those of use with WMV and MPEG4-ASP playing portables will still have to break the copy protection and rip like usual.

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dilla @ Jan 15th 2008 7:27PM

ok, so I got blue harvest and it hasn't worked all day. says itunes store unavailable.. also it is on a seperate disc

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D. Arnaez @ Jan 16th 2008 11:11AM

This is really cool... but I think the movie industry will blow up when Apple start to rent or sale subtitle movies for the US foreign people. Don't you think?

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jim the GREEK @ Jan 21st 2008 6:42AM

is he greek?

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