Friday, April 20, 2012

Beware of Digital Movies from Paramount -- they don't work and they are corrupted

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Beware of Paramount Digital movie copies. They do not properly download. The system they use is so complicated because they are so worried you might make a copy that they make it IMPOSSIBLE to download the digital copy you purchased.
DO NOT PURCHASE Blu-Ray, DVD Digital Copy DVDs from Paramount Pictures. They do not work. You will end up spending $25 and the digital copy will not download.
I wanted to download a high resolution copy to my laptop so I can install it on my iPad. But their system refuses to download a high resolution copy to a laptop that is not High HD quality. So they will download a low resolution copy, even though I want it on my iPad.
What?
Are these people idiots? I purchased the Tom Cruise movie Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol and it was mission really impossible to download and use the digital copy.
So, I decided to go out and purchase a copy software program to convert the DVD into a file that can play on my iPad. The Paramount people are assholes and unhelpful.
Worse, Paramount insist that log in to download the stupid digital copy and then they insist that you link it to a system called UltraViolet. You have to have two usernames and two passwords and then link the two. It only takes 30 minutes of your valuable time to go through the process.
Paramount intentionally designed the system to discourage people from downloading the digital copies. They want you to spend more money on the 3-version movie set (Blu-Ray, DVD and digital copy) so they can make $6 more on the sale. The Blue Ray by itself is $19 and the DVD is $14, at Wal-Mart (which sells movies, Blue-Rays and DVDs the cheapest of any store, by the way.)
So I can't download the digital copy because of their greed. Mission fucking impossible! Paramount sucks. UltraViolet redemption is a stupid system not worth your time.
Please tell others not to purchase the Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol combo pack Blu-Ray, DVD and Digital copy, unless they want to spend 3 hours trying to figure out how the hell to make their stupid, useless system work.
Such a disappointment.
POSTSCRIPT. It took about 3 hours to download the 2.04 Gigabyte "digital" file. And guess what? It's not really digital. It's linked to a player that Paramount downloads on your computer and you can't watch the movie except using that  "player."
If Paramount put as much effort into making better movies, they would have had a better record. But they suck! Tom Cruise sucks -- I'm taking it on him and blaming him for associating himself with Hollywood morons. Seriously. DO NOT BUY PARAMOUNT MOVIES that offer digital movies. THEY DON'T WORK!
-- Ray Hanania
www.hanania.com