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Help Easier Simple Legal Movie Purchases Transfers?

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sharkhark

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So i go searching thru this forum and others online in vain trying to find a simple legal movie purchasing and transferring option and it is frustrating. I have not owned an iphone but i am knowledgeable enough to know that my friends who do have one can log into itunes and easily download and transfer songs and movies that they purchase.
When i go looking for threads on our forum it only leads to very complicated threads on bypassing copyrights to put your legal owned content on your unit or threads leaning towards illegal stuff.

Simply put. Is there somewhere where i can go and pay and easily in a couple clicks load a few movies?
I am taking a trip this week starting tomorrow morning and wanted a few movies on the unit.
I don't own many movies right now so i would like to purchase them. Even if i owned some, i read a thread someone posted with links to other articles on how to do it and it was unbelievably long.
I mean literally one thread had probably 50 steps on what to click and what options to change as you go. Who as an avg person wants to go and do 50 steps?
I love my captivate but with things of this nature i realize why the iphone is so popular. I did not buy mine to root it and be some player with the innards. I just wanted a great phone, which it is, but how do i do or where do i go? to get these movies in an easy way?:confused:
 
On your home screen you'll see an icon for the Samsung Media Hub. This is an application that Samsung promised would allow you to rent or purchase movies, tv shows, etc. But as the months went on after the Captivate was released the Media Hub remained unavailable . . . seems it needs Froyo to work. Discussion about the Media Hub has dried up. Those that have Froyo (europe, canada, etc) have said that the offerings on Media Hub were expensive and very limited.

If and when we get Froyo the Media Hub may become available . . . or maybe it will be eliminated. Guess we'll have to wait awhile longer to find out. :(
 
I can appreciate what you're trying to do, but I will tell you that it's not financially wise. Why pay $10 for a low-res downloadable movie when you can by the used DVD for under $10 and maybe under $5, have a hardcopy full-res original that you can then rip your own mobile version for your Captivate and easily transfer to other future devices?

Transferring movies from DVD - CapFAQ

I realize downloading movies is convenient but I just don't see it being worth the price. The premium for the convenience is just far too high, and the restrictions too vast.
 
sremick said:
I can appreciate what you're trying to do, but I will tell you that it's not financially wise. Why pay $10 for a low-res downloadable movie when you can by the used DVD for under $10 and maybe under $5, have a hardcopy full-res original that you can then rip your own mobile version for your Captivate and easily transfer to other future devices?

Transferring movies from DVD - CapFAQ

I realize downloading movies is convenient but I just don't see it being worth the price. The premium for the convenience is just far too high, and the restrictions too vast.
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actually i know you are helpful i read all your posts..but when i referred to the instructions someone had posted in a link to how to transfer movies to captivate and just how mind boggling long the list was...something like 50 different steps when i lost count...
...well it was you i was referring too.
I realize most who got a captivate are the techie type that love rooting and dont mind 50-100 various steps to transfer a movie. but for example. i fly out in 11 hours from now.
i am guessing that based on just how many steps are listed in that link....i would take hours just to load one movie.
I honestly just want to click a few times and be done with it.
that lists you copied in the link is atrociously long. maybe most are simple drop down or toggle steps...but the page goes on and on and on and on. its mind boggling.

i find it really sad that i have to do that to simply purchase...legally..and load...a movie.
i do have froyo, but honestly there is no way i want to sit choosing not one...or ten or 50 but up to 100 steps to get a movie on my unit and down loading more than one app to do it.
 
Frisco said:
I just Googled, "purchase movies for android," which yielded quite a few sites and threads mentioning apps and methods to legally acquire and view movies.

"DoubleTwist" seems to have a lot of popularity:

Sync Android, PSP, BlackBerry, Pre: doubleTwist with Amazon MP3

..HandBrake:

[HOWTO] Convert videos for Samsung Galaxy S using Handbreak. - xda-developers

..but put "purchase movies for android" and you'll see what I mean, and you can make some choices. ;)
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actually i don't just start threads without searching this site and forum and the internet. there are many many (pardon the term 'techie') ways to convert your movie and add it to the captivate but i have absolutely no desire to do a gazillion steps to do that.
why is there an age old argument on the merits of iphone vs google android phones...and yet when it comes to movies i am made to feel somewhat inferior by the internet when it comes to movies. helpful minded people who are good with computers go on about all the complicated steps i can do to load a movie.

i admit it...i love my phone and dont have a desire to get an iphone, but why is it so wrong to want to purchase a movie like my friends do?
sure someday i might learn to transfer to my phone and will have a half day to kill...but i am the type if one step is done wrong i am lost. why doesnt android..somewhere ...somehow allow you to log into something like itunes and click want to buy video and then sync with phone?

am i so wrong to want this? this is not directed at you who posted..it is directed in general as the entire google search for movies repeatedly gave links to complicated methods.
if it takes more than 4 clicks? I dont want to do that.

is there no such easy animal?
 
sharkhark said:
but for example. i fly out in 11 hours from now.
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That's plenty of time.

i am guessing that based on just how many steps are listed in that link....i would take hours just to load one movie.
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Depends on the movie and your computer but no, not hours. On a Dell Optiplex 755 it took less than an hour to rip and convert.

I honestly just want to click a few times and be done with it.
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Once you get everything set up, it really is just a few clicks. Sorry, but you need to be willing to invest the initial time to install the software and set the defaults. Then the config can be saved and there's very little that needs to be done for each movie.

i find it really sad that i have to do that to simply purchase...legally..and load...a movie.
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Well, there's a simple reason: DRM. DRM is evil. DRM is the bane of the consumer. DRM benefits only the big companies, and hurts you.

This is the way of it. You can work with what you have, or go without... but if you don't like the way of things, it's important to address the cause. The cause is DRM, and the corrupt and antiquated copyright laws.

I'm not trying to be cruel ;) but I feel the necessity to be blunt, as it is very frustrating that so many people don't connect the dots. If we had as many people petitioning their congressmen against DRM as we have people who complain about the effects of DRM, maybe DRM wouldn't exist and copyright law would be cleaned up. Unfortunately, most consumers don't see how things work... they are passive when it counts, but they get up-in-arms when the side-effects of their passiveness come into effect.

Apple is the only company with the clout so far that has been able to negotiate deals with the corrupt MPAA and arrange for a way to put encrypted, copy-protected full movies into a form available for easy download to a portable device. Amazon broke free of it with music and offers DRM-free MP3s (which eventually lead to Apple being forced to do the same on iTunes) but as of yet Amazon doesn't offer downloadable movies, DRMed or otherwise. I would expect if it were to come from anywhere someday, we might see it from Amazon... but while the RIAA might be swayed into allowing DRM-free MP3s, there's not a snowball's chance in hell we're ever going to see (legal) DRM-free movies ever. So how that DRM will be made to work on the Android platform is unclear, given how varied the hardware and software can be. This is the precise reason we have not seen the Netflix app for Android yet: DRM (which Netflix has admitted to).

So anyhow, that's the way of it... the technique isn't ideal, but the answer is there, and if you'd like the situation to be better (and most here agree with you that it should be), this forum isn't the place to start. ;) The issue is political/legal, not technical.
 
sremick said:
That's plenty of time.

Depends on the movie and your computer but no, not hours. On a Dell Optiplex 755 it took less than an hour to rip and convert.

Once you get everything set up, it really is just a few clicks. Sorry, but you need to be willing to invest the initial time to install the software and set the defaults. Then the config can be saved and there's very little that needs to be done for each movie.
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just back from my vacay and didnt get to load a movie or two....but re your comment bolded above.......i didn't know that. although it is not my easy 1-2-3 click method i prefer....saying to me that i can save all those many multiple settings and not have to do it every time..is something i did not know, then i will give it a shot soon. thx
 
sharkhark said:
but re your comment bolded above.......i didn't know that. although it is not my easy 1-2-3 click method i prefer....saying to me that i can save all those many multiple settings and not have to do it every time..is something i did not know, then i will give it a shot soon. thx
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Well, it is mentioned on the very page I linked you to. ;) Including instructions. Always worth reading the FAQ... ;)
 
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