Re: Disney and Vudu - Tell Disney Thank You!
I would agree that the Walt Disney Studios leaving iTunes out of DC+ for recent titles was a business decision.
We are left to speculate as to their reasoning.
Perhaps it is because iOS devices are receding in market penetration. Last year at this time the global cell phone market was about 17% iOS. This year it has dropped to 13%.
Android owns 80% of the cell phone market footprint, leaving iOS to be a nitch segment.
Further, the nitch iOS segment can still watch movies on their iOS devices with the Vudu 2-Go app or the Amazon Instant Video iOS app.
Why should a studio pay apple a fee to have their digital copy available via iTunes under these market conditions?
It simply does not make business sense to do so.
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Re: Disney and Vudu - Tell Disney Thank You!
I agree completely...Originally posted by TheNewGuy View Post
If you disagree you dont know much about technology. Apple requires you to have use their stuff, charge companies up the butt with fees. No hdmi port..have to apple thunderbolt. have to use different chargers for phones and whatnot. No apple streaming allowed on anything but itunes. either iphone, imac or appletv. Apple sues samsung over a patent infringe for having rounded corners around their phones.
Disney has been hurting a bit last few years, has now been smart about business. Stopped their streaming service, now have joined forces with vudu and amazon. Shoot even signed a deal with netflix, dropping itunes and apple unbelievable fees. All smart ideas.Last edited by DanielH; 08-14-2013, 04:48 PM.
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Re: Disney and Vudu - Tell Disney Thank You!
If you disagree you dont know much about technology. Apple requires you to have use their stuff, charge companies up the butt with fees. No hdmi port..have to apple thunderbolt. have to use different chargers for phones and whatnot. No apple streaming allowed on anything but itunes. either iphone, imac or appletv. Apple sues samsung over a patent infringe for having rounded corners around their phones.
Disney has been hurting a bit last few years, has now been smart about business. Stopped their streaming service, now have joined forces with vudu and amazon. Shoot even signed a deal with netflix, dropping itunes and apple unbelievable fees. All smart ideas.
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Re: Disney and Vudu - Tell Disney Thank You!
I also agree that they need to add iTunes to option back. I wish they would add older digital copies for use on Digital Copy Plus since I just joined the Disney Movie Club and have quite a few movies with iTunes only digital copies. They need to join UV so we can share our Disney movies with our UV group instead of having to have the a person remove their player from their Vudu account and add their player to the person with the Vudu only movie they want to watch. I use iTunes only for movies that the digital copy code will not redeem on Vudu/UV. I have an Apple TV 2nd Generation so I can stream my iTunes movies to my TV most of the movies are in SD only but some are HD.
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I just received this generic reply. At least I know the emal address goes somewhere...
Thank you for your email. We appreciate your comments and will forward your email to the correct department for consideration.
If you have any other questions or suggestions, feel free to reply to this email or you may also contact us at 1-800-723-4763 (US)/1-888-877-2843 (Canada) Monday 9:30-7:30 and Tuesday through Friday 9:30-6:30 CST.
Thank You,
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment Technical Support
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I have a friend on blu-ray.com that is an iTunes user and he is not happy the movies (he just purchased) are missing iTunes DC (giving only Vudu/Amazon). He emailed them to complain. I hope he can get them to give him something but I seriously doubt that will happen.Originally posted by Walter-S_North_Carolina View Postwhere have you read of customers being un-happy with the absence of iTunes in DigitalCopy+ redemptions?
I can find nothing in google searches about that.
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Originally posted by echopulse View PostWhat is the e-mail address that you want us to send it to? I'm going to contact them to ask why their
titles aren't UltraViolet yet.
disneyinfo@disneyhelp.com
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Re: Disney and Vudu - Tell Disney Thank You!
Sent you a PMOriginally posted by Walter-S_North_Carolina View Postwhere have you read of customers being un-happy with the absence of iTunes in DigitalCopy+ redemptions?
I can find nothing in google searches about that.
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What is the e-mail address that you want us to send it to? I'm going to contact them to ask why their
titles aren't UltraViolet yet.
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where have you read of customers being un-happy with the absence of iTunes in DigitalCopy+ redemptions?
I can find nothing in google searches about that.
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Disney and Vudu - Tell Disney Thank You!
I for one am thrilled that Disney has opened up their digital copies on some of their recent released movies to be used on Vudu and Amazon. While I don't think Disney should have removed the iTunes option, I think we should let Disney know that having Vudu as an option is great.
I have already send Disney a "Thank You" email for allowing their digital copies to be available on Vudu/Amazon. I let them know how this helps my family as we can finally use the digital copy's. I think, for those of us who are happy about having Vudu as an option, it would be good to send them an email, post it on facebook and/or tweet them about this huge step forward.
Thank you! Hopefully they will hear a lot of good from this change!Tags: None

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