Apple and Fox announce iTunes-ready digital copies on discs

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.

[JEdelman Posted Jan 15th 2008 1:39PM]

Will this be available on Redbox copies?

[kastonie Posted Jan 15th 2008 2:00PM]

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

[(Unverified) Posted 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.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 15th 2008 2:23PM]

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

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 15th 2008 2:39PM]

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

[Galley Posted Jan 15th 2008 3:30PM]

Will this be available on Blu-ray Discs?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 15th 2008 5:29PM]

Or HD-DVDs... hahahahaha...

[(Unverified) Posted 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."

[(Unverified) Posted 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.

[(Unverified) Posted 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

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 21st 2008 6:42AM]

is he greek?

[(Unverified) Posted 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?