The pallaver of downloaded movies

[SpokeyDokey]

I prefer to have the actors actually in the room with me.

Sure, it costs more, but if you want the most authentic experience ...

I look forward to YouPorn offering that service...

 

[CanucksTraveller]

This is odd. You should be able to play movies offline if you paid for it or rented it and viewing within the rental period. Try re-installing the app.

Key feature of the product is to view offline.

^^ Yes, this. Something's not right with the set up, I agree that an uninstall and a reinstall should fix it.

As Arrowfoot says, the whole point of downloads is that you can watch them with no signal on aeroplanes etc. I carry a Kindle Fire on my travels and I download variously from Amazon Prime, iPlayer and Netflix, they all work perfectly. I've not downloaded anything from Google Play but it's the same principle.

Amazon Music's downloads are admittedly a pain in the tits, (you can't just download your library of purchased music and instead you have to manually select and download each track separately), but that's for another thread maybe.

 

[nickyboy]

I look forward to YouPorn offering that service...

Bringing a whole new context to the "interactive experience"

 

[Smokin Joe]

I cannot think why I would ever want to watch anything on a phone, don't have a tablet.

I suspect that whatever lifestyle you have chosen for yourself is one many people would find appalling.

 

[Oldhippy]

I suspect that whatever lifestyle you have chosen for yourself is one many people would find appalling.

That's sad, I have a good life, books, cycling, the odd movie on DVD, friends but don't find a need for constant entertainment from phones, tablets. Lost count of how many times I've sat looking around a restaurant where a group of people who clearly came out together are not talking to each other but have their face buried in the phone. We've lost so much more than we've gained.

 

[markemark]

Errrr..... No.

A vinyl record is literally a sound wave cast into physical form. If you play a record without electronic amplification it still plays. Which is why, back in the day, some people got funny about only buying AAA recordings rather than DDA.

A DVD, a CD, an MP3, a dodgy torrent download, are qualitatively different - the information is encoded into digital form, and the identical code can be stored in any medium at all and recovered as long as you have the appropriate decoder. You could, in theory, write a track with pencil and paper using dots and dashes in MP3 format and perfectly recover it.

Except that sound is a longitude wave so it is converted (encoded) to a transverse wave and stored on the vinyl before being decoded back into a sound wave.

 

[matticus]

I prefer to have the actors actually in the room with me.

Sure, it costs more, but if you want the most authentic experience ...

I look forward to YouPorn offering that service...

There was a great line in Coupling about going to Strip Clubs:
Why would i want to go to a A Strip Club? It's basically porn that can see you.

 

[MontyVeda]

Except that sound is a longitude wave so it is converted (encoded) to a transverse wave and stored on the vinyl before being decoded back into a sound wave.

...and these days they cut the vinyl from the same source they use to burn the CD

 

[Ming the Merciless]

You could, in theory, write a track with pencil and paper using dots and dashes in MP3 format and perfectly recover it.

Since MP3 is compressed format and throws away information during that compression. You could be spending rather a lot of time trying to write it out by hand as you work through the compression algorithm.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Ermmm...you do realise that DVD is not the "physical thing"

Hate to break it to you but I have a number of physical DVDs in my house. The clue is in what the second D stands for.

 

[Andy_R]

Hate to break it to you but I have a number of physical DVDs in my house. The clue is in what the second D stands for.

Hate to break it to you, but the DVD (and yes, I do know what the last D stands for) is not the physical movie. It's the digital copy (clue there) of the original physical movie (i.e. the media on which the film was recorded). I stand by my assertation, as I am a grumpy old sod and you can't change my mind.

 

[MontyVeda]

Ooh... looks like a pedant needs a feed

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Hate to break it to you, but the DVD (and yes, I do know what the last D stands for) is not the physical movie. It's the digital copy (clue there) of the original physical movie (i.e. the media on which the film was recorded). I stand by my assertation, as I am a grumpy old sod and you can't change my mind.

It’s a disc as in Digital Versatile Disc, the content doesn’t have to be a movie at all. But it’s very much a disc and very much physical. If you are referring to the digital encoding standards then sure not physical, but then you are not describing a DVD.

I have rewritable DVDs by my computer, there’s no digital recording on them, but the physical DVDs which have defined physical standards are very much there.

 

[rualexander]

A lot of us will very rarely want to watch anything when away from home, except possibly in the evenings on business trips - when we probably will have a laptop, and a TV available in the hotel room.

But then again, a lot of us will often want to watch something when away from home.
It's not something that I do much, in fact I think I've only done it a couple of times over the years, but I've met and seen many people who do watch stuff on their phones etc.

 

[Alex321]

But then again, a lot of us will often want to watch something when away from home.
It's not something that I do much, in fact I think I've only done it a couple of times over the years, but I've met and seen many people who do watch stuff on their phones etc.

Of course.

But the post of yours I was responding to just appeared to assume that he must want to watch stuff. I was just pointing out that not everybody does.