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iTunes Music Store
Jan. 18th, 2006 02:37 amOne more thing before I go to bed:
I am sorry to say that I can't recommend buying music and especially not videos from the iTunes music store. Why? Well for one thing the videos you get charged 2 dollars a piece for are barely MPEG1\VHS quality and if you buy a whole season it comes out to costing as much if not more than buying it on DVD. The second reason I don't recommend it is because if you happen to have to restore your hard drive and where unable to make a backup of your iTunes music store files like if your backup was a little out of date and didn't have your most recent files you can't redownload the videos\music you have bought. Then of course the videos seem to me to have stricter DRM than music files do making backing up the files harder.
I could be wrong about that because I heard that with music at least the DRM is lenient enough but I wouldn't be surprised. I did however think I read when I tried it out buying one video that you can only have a copy of an iTunes video on a single computer evidently though the iPod doesn't count against that. I think it's better to encode free videos for your iPod if you are going to watch videos on it.
There are two things I would like to see Apple change in the iTunes music store before I can endorse it. First of all for the money I think that the videos they sell should be DVD quality. Second of all they should be able to tell if you paid for a certain video and also if you have bought the video and it's not in your iTunes library it should allow you to download or re-download it as necessary. Currently there is a purchase history section but it is only for you to read it doesn't have any function other than that.
I am sorry to say that I can't recommend buying music and especially not videos from the iTunes music store. Why? Well for one thing the videos you get charged 2 dollars a piece for are barely MPEG1\VHS quality and if you buy a whole season it comes out to costing as much if not more than buying it on DVD. The second reason I don't recommend it is because if you happen to have to restore your hard drive and where unable to make a backup of your iTunes music store files like if your backup was a little out of date and didn't have your most recent files you can't redownload the videos\music you have bought. Then of course the videos seem to me to have stricter DRM than music files do making backing up the files harder.
I could be wrong about that because I heard that with music at least the DRM is lenient enough but I wouldn't be surprised. I did however think I read when I tried it out buying one video that you can only have a copy of an iTunes video on a single computer evidently though the iPod doesn't count against that. I think it's better to encode free videos for your iPod if you are going to watch videos on it.
There are two things I would like to see Apple change in the iTunes music store before I can endorse it. First of all for the money I think that the videos they sell should be DVD quality. Second of all they should be able to tell if you paid for a certain video and also if you have bought the video and it's not in your iTunes library it should allow you to download or re-download it as necessary. Currently there is a purchase history section but it is only for you to read it doesn't have any function other than that.
