Curious if anyone else collects movies virtually on Apple? If so, how many do you have? I’m currently at 1477 movies.🍿 🎥
I bought a couple of albums on Apple Music. They’re no longer available to me. If it’s not on your shelf, all you’re buying is access to their file and you own NOTHING. Good day, sir!
What does Apple Music have to do with anything? And if you are so concerned with your access just download the music files?
This shit gets boring, this wasn’t what was asked. But the anti-digital media crowd always have to pop their head out and echo the same thing over and over and over. Even when nobody asked.
Yep. They have some great deals. I have a couple of hundred already.
Just wish you could download them to your Apple TV and have the option to watch them without the internet.
I wonder if there’s a way to download them to an external drive and get it to play through the box?
Physical collector and digital (iTunes UK) collector too. Mainly horror/sci-fi and always on the lookout for good deals on 4k and HD releases.
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Dumb question if we are buying movies on Apple TV, is it being stored locally or cloud? I got 32GB 4K gen 2. Thinking about getting the remastered Cinderella.
It gets stored on the cloud so you can download as many and you want and it won’t affect your storage. If you go on a trip you can download movies you bought to your iPad, MacBook etc so you can watch without streaming.
I’ve recently started to build a collection again, I used to have a large physical collection in the early 2000s but then cleared it all out in my minimalist phase.
I pretty much only buy 4K movies I like that are on offer on Apple TV app and relevant bundles, I’ve accrued about 100 movies in 6 months.
Bit over 1,700 at the moment (Yay for multibuy offers).
Would be more, but some of them I’ve re-designated as TV since they’re sequels/prequels to television series (such as Serenity for Firefly).TV shows, I’ve breached the 500 shows barrier (Star Trek counts for a dozen alone) and for music, over 400 music albums/10,000 songs (yes, there are duplicates…).
And all this requires 4 external hard-drives…
If you’re in the Apple ecosystem, getting movies and shows on iTunes is the best place. Great player, tons of deals, synced across all devices seamlessly. If not, VUDU is pretty much the next best. I have an xbox and amazon prime and even with deep sales, I almost never get a move or tv show there unless it’s on iTunes. I’d rather wait for the sale to show up there instead. It’s just that much better and simple IMO.
Yes, I agree! Not sure if you hear of blu-ray.com? They show all movies that are currently discounted. You can filter by 4k/HD. I’ve been using for years and it helps you save on Apple movies.
Better to use the app CheapCharts
Only downside to Blu-ray.com is the titles need to be in their database first otherwise you won’t know about all titles that get a drop. I mainly use Blu-ray.com as a purchase log.
Another alternative is CheapCharts, their app can even give notifications as and when price drops happen and alert you separately when any movies or tv shows you’ve placed in your wish list have had a drop.
Good to know! Thank you!
I’ve been doing two things, using cheapcharts and Ms Rewards. I’ll only buy a movie on my xbox if I know for sure it has movies anywhere enabled. Learned my lesson when I first started collecting and bought all John Wick movies there. Ugh. I heard good things about the Blu-ray site too, so it doesn’t hurt to double check. Using the wishlist feature on iTunes is useful too, as cheapcharts doesn’t show a sale immediately. Another reason I prefer Apple is cause I’m partially deaf. I’ve never encountered a movie or show on appletv app that shows subs incorrectly or with delayed input. Parent Trap, the Jetsons, and a few other shows have horrible captions. I actually bought the Jetsons a second time on iTunes just to “fix” this.
1000+ movies, and many other series.
About 250. I’ve purchased all of them via the appletv app. I tend to wait for sales and scoop them up when they are around $5.
Just over 10000 now. Love the multiples…
2,153… lol though I still collect physical and find that WAY more superior.
Wow! Nice work! I still have some physical especially the special edition movies since I love some of the packaging.
Yeah, the special features, lossless audio and higher quality video (let alone you ACTUALLY OWN the physical disc movie) is why I still prefer physical.
I thought about it, but i prefer to collect movies via Plex. Cheaper, and more chances to still own it 40 years later.
What if i don’t like Apple anymore in 20 years? 40 years? I’ll lose everything.
At least i know i’ll still have my library (maybe still on external hard drives like today, or a new format coming in the future).
- All purchased using Cheap Charts
I sometimes feel guilty for the ~150 or so movies I’ve bought digitally. This makes me feel better.
On a serious note, I only “buy” movies I consider exceptional and that I know I will rewatch many times.