1080p downloads from Blu Ray digital copies available?

I have a number of digital copies from Blu Rays I've purchased, and I'm curious if I can redownload them in 1080p.
So far, after removing them and redownloading them from the Cloud on my MacBook, the answer is no.
For example, I tried to do this with Star Trek, which is definitely available in HD. If I remove the movie and try to redownload it, it only downloads in SD.
I set my store preferences to download in 1080p when available as well.
Is doing what I'm trying to do undoable? I'd really like to update my digital copies to HD versions now that they're available.

This seems a common problem. I have the latest iTunes; got Night at the Museum; redeemed code and straight away got this same error. I de-authorised this account and reauthorised and it worked. Not sure that I have to do this each time, but hopefully iTunes bug fix is coming...

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That's the current Apple DRM for videos.
If your wife's laptop is on the same account as yours just copy the download to her machine.
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I tried to download and watch the digital copy of Star Trek that is included with my Blu-ray. It prompted me to enter my authorization code then had me log into the iTunes store. It seemed to download the movie fine (the download progress bar filled). When I tried to play the movie, it just brought up a gray window with no picture or audio. The progress bar and time indicator seemed to progress properly. The chapter selection menu showed the correct thumbnail pics. But there was only the gray screen with the control panel buttons on the bottom.
Trying to sync with my iTouch told me it was not copied to my iTouch because I am not authorized to play it on this computer?
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I have the Apple TV 2 and love it but I have a few movies that I got from iTunes as digital copy downloads from buying a bluray disc that the audio doesn't stream to the tv. It's a crackling static sound.
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Wow, you're locked into the Apple ecosystem!
Here's how to tell:
If it says "Digital Copy", then it's iTunes compatible. Usually, you have to go to the Film Distributor's website, enter the code, then it passes you iTunes for download. Sometimes it's just copying from a DVD to your hard drive (which you can then use in iTunes).
If it says "Ultraviolet Digital", you're not going to be able to use it in iTunes. I've not seen any that are just Ultraviolet.
See this link at Amazon. It has links to each of the major studios, all of which have slightly different rules and policies.

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Greetings...
There is a very short clip which I need to capture from a commercial Blu-Ray disc.
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I'm a fairly new user to Encore CS4.   I was able to successfully create a Blu-Ray project using HD video - the actual video is a little over 3 hours.   It took about 30 hours for the project to transcode and burn.   I'm now trying to take that same project and created a single layer DVD.   I'm really struggling with this even though the software says I should be able to do this.    So I set all my settings up to create the DVD and started the process.   It was trancoding the video for 6 straight days!!!!!    When it finally got finished with the transcoding process I got an error that said this aspect ration was not supported by DVD!!!   So I'm confused at what I'm doing wrong.   First, I don't think the transcoding process should be taking that long.   Second, if the aspect ration is not correct, could it tell me that before it spends 6 days transcoding the video?    Third, I'm trying to burn the DVD using the same 16:6 widescreen aspect ratio, so I'm not sure why it's telling me the aspect ratio is not correct.    But what frustrates me the most is that it took wasted days before the software told me it didn't like the aspect ratio.
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Thanks, I'll try these suggestions next. I had found a post from "janaiott" suggesting to select "interpret footage" then choose "conform to SD NTSC Widescreen".   They said that worked for them.   This post was titled "Use the same project to export to both BR and DVD?"
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1) See #2. Your point about HDV motion is reasonable but like anything, the video format is just a tool to be considered. Many folks don't even bother to think about the package acquiring that video format. Your HV20 is TINY!! Tiny means small lensing, small imagers which play the largest part in the quality of the acquisition.
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Zeb
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Blu-Ray player "zoom" availability

Are there any Blu-Ray players on the market with the "zoom" feature that used to be available on many regular DVD players?

This one does: LG BD590 only one i have ever heard of.
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whisperam wrote:
Last night we used the blue ray player which we rarely do. This morning we are trying to watch reg tv but cannot get it to play. The blue ray works great. WE switched the reciever back to HDMI 1 and the input is the same. What I am doing wrong?
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