Harry Potter and the Half-baked Promotion
I recently bought the two-disc special edition of Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince and with it comes a pamphlet getting a digital copy for portable devices - it even has a lovely diagram on the back showing a macbook linked up to an iPod Touch.
I thought this was a cool feature, one I've never seen on a DVD I've bought before. This is the sort of thing that usually comes with Blu-ray for PS3 and PSP connectivity.
So I read the rest of it, including the fine print. And subtly hidden within is epic fail.
Anyone who knows their technology will recognise the macbook and a dubious imitation of an iPod Touch / iPhone on the back of the case. But in the fine print it explicitly says 'Windows Media compatable only' and 'Not compatable with iTunes or with Macintosh and iPod devices'. Fail.
Even more subtle fail is it mentions 'Consumers must reside in Australia or New Zealand', which means, unless you were savvy enough to have imported a Zune, this won't do you much good either.
Granted most devices capable of playing video usually come with a media converter of sorts, but if you have that sort of software, more often than not, you have some sort of DVD ripper as well. Which pretty much makes this digital copy worthless. Especially as it will have some sort of weird DRM that will probably prevent it from being used anywhere except on a PC.
I will download this and let you know how much more fail is to come. Keep you posted.
I thought this was a cool feature, one I've never seen on a DVD I've bought before. This is the sort of thing that usually comes with Blu-ray for PS3 and PSP connectivity.
So I read the rest of it, including the fine print. And subtly hidden within is epic fail.
Anyone who knows their technology will recognise the macbook and a dubious imitation of an iPod Touch / iPhone on the back of the case. But in the fine print it explicitly says 'Windows Media compatable only' and 'Not compatable with iTunes or with Macintosh and iPod devices'. Fail.
Even more subtle fail is it mentions 'Consumers must reside in Australia or New Zealand', which means, unless you were savvy enough to have imported a Zune, this won't do you much good either.
Granted most devices capable of playing video usually come with a media converter of sorts, but if you have that sort of software, more often than not, you have some sort of DVD ripper as well. Which pretty much makes this digital copy worthless. Especially as it will have some sort of weird DRM that will probably prevent it from being used anywhere except on a PC.
I will download this and let you know how much more fail is to come. Keep you posted.