Harry Potter and the Half-baked Promotion

Nov 28, 2009 17:05

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 ( Read more... )

movies, gadgets, fail

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mysterysquid November 28 2009, 06:42:57 UTC
Deary me...

They still Don't Get It, do they?

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arakaraath November 28 2009, 22:46:49 UTC
Just shows the massive gap between those who work out what goes on the discs and the people who do the box-art. I guess Apple products are so iconic you recognise them instantly, never mind the failure in the implied promise and what is delivered in the product.

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wtf_dninja November 28 2009, 07:31:56 UTC
... ... ... failiverse.

Why did they not make it compatible with iPod devices?

I mean only the entire world has one.

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arakaraath November 28 2009, 23:01:11 UTC
No idea yet. It seems like an odd move. I wonder if there is some sort of licensing issue or something perhaps, I dunno. Digital distribution legality is murky at best.

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wtf_dninja November 29 2009, 03:02:12 UTC
Bill gates bribed them. That's my theory.

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kijibwa_1 November 28 2009, 22:50:28 UTC
I wonder if you got a Mac computer. I'll from the US, don't own a PS3. I don't understand why DVD feature in Australia is
different from the US.

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arakaraath November 28 2009, 23:21:00 UTC
No, I have a PC. I don't know why the features would be different here from the US - I'm assuming then that the US version doesn't have this feature?

It could be something to do with copyright or distribution laws which is weird because usually the US gets all this sort of thing and Aus doesn't.

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cabcat November 29 2009, 09:30:17 UTC
Death to the DVD region!!
I just wanted to say it :)

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