Free £10 on Blinkbox and more...(merged)

sarah1972

OP here https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2428433

merge request sent

mandycr

thanks for this my hubby has been desperate to see avatar just got it with 1.01 left to spare guess i wont be seeing him tonight lol

pig_let_cool

Just a heads up Avatar is 8.99 so free with the metro offer

sexylulubelle

Thanks very much!

darren72

Can you use more than one code, or is it one code only ?

Thanks

kirkeastment

darren72, it doesn't matter at the moment as the other 4 codes don't work anymore

but if there were working codes you could only use one code at a time anyway, its kind of sucky in that way as if you wanted to get a movie costing over £10, then you'd need to luck out an join at a time like this(when your given £10 for joining) and either wait for the price to drop, or wait for another code to come out.

kirkeastment

Still working at the moment, and thought some might like to know that you can use the £10 against tv shows too, i just picked up the entire season 4 of Doctor Who for £8.99, pretty decent.

gregmac666

At present our titles are not available for download on the Mac. This is an industry-wide issue. We do have some titles available that you can Watch Online on blinkbox. You can find out if a title is available for Watch Online by clicking the Purchase button; a pop-up will appear which will tell you what viewing options are available.

BOO! What this means is that the industry can't be bothered to spend the money on converting all their files to a Mac-compatible format.

Considering there are many users out there who may want to play their movie on an iPod Touch, you'd think that they'd at least offer a download in that format.

Damn shame.

financial_warrior

Considering there are many users out there who may want to play their movie on an iPod Touch, you'd think that they'd at least offer a download in that format.

The problem there my friend is Apple. They won't let other companies use their DRM technology - they want everyone to use iTunes. The studios that make these big-budget movies aren't willing to allow their movies to be downloaded from legitimate sites like blinkbox without DRM. Catch-22. Apple are greedy... go complain to them!

fazeypie

gregmac666 wrote: »

BOO! What this means is that the industry can't be bothered to spend the money on converting all their files to a Mac-compatible format.

Considering there are many users out there who may want to play their movie on an iPod Touch, you'd think that they'd at least offer a download in that format.

Damn shame.

Same here- probably wouldn't work on iPod touch either due to the lack of flash. You can purchase movies for unlimited streaming though which suits me fine as movies can take up a fair bit of room on the old hard drive. The only way you could get round it is by having some kind of screen capture software to record it as it streams but I'm not too sure of the legality of that. I've personally not bothered to explore that route anyway as the streaming quality can be a bit hit and miss for me.