But the servers are still all located in the US I believe.
 

I know nothing about server related stuff, but surely it's a bit unrealistic to have every iTunes store customer depending on a server farm in North Carolina? Though on the other hand considering the traffic jam that we suffered through for iOS5, that may well be the case of how things are done at Apple.

However, very happy to finally see the "films in the cloud" feature activated for British iTunes accounts. I have been steadily replacing my collection with iTunes purchases over the last couple of months. Still pisses me off that we can't get HD versions of any of the Marvel comics related movies, but one can hope that this will happen in the near future.

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Originally Posted by ombra2105 

I know nothing about server related stuff, but surely it's a bit unrealistic to have every iTunes store customer depending on a server farm in North Carolina? Though on the other hand considering the traffic jam that we suffered through for iOS5, that may well be the case of how things are done at Apple.

 

However, very happy to finally see the "films in the cloud" feature activated for British iTunes accounts. I have been steadily replacing my collection with iTunes purchases over the last couple of months. Still pisses me off that we can't get HD versions of any of the Marvel comics related movies, but one can hope that this will happen in the near future.

I find iTunes to be such a bad deal price-wise for everything except music that I rarely buy from them.  Nice to see this service activated in Canada (where I am right now), but it's certainly "select" movies.  The one movie I purchased isn't available, but the one season of a TV show I purchased is.  

I have to agree that iTunes is a bad deal price wise. You get the occasional decent offer in the British store but they are few and far between. However, I have seen what happens when you have huge collection of physical media, and I want to embrace the cloud.

Nice surprise and I noticed one of my movie purchases had shown up which was a digital copy from my Blu Ray. However others haven't. Suppose it depends if they have struck a deal with that particular studio. Agreed that movies are too expensive on iTunes.

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Originally Posted by ombra2105 

I have to agree that iTunes is a bad deal price wise. You get the occasional decent offer in the British store but they are few and far between. However, I have seen what happens when you have huge collection of physical media, and I want to embrace the cloud.

I would love to embrace the cloud and I do it for everything else, but in terms of iTunes, it just isn't possible for me now and won't be for a while.  

I've thought of doing iTunes match just for the music part, but the limitations, restrictions ect. are too prevalent.  There's no guarantee that it will accept tracks you burned off of CD's that were legally bought for instance or movies you took from your own DVD's, and it does quite a bit of violence to your iTunes library just to attempt iTunes match.  

There is also the bigger problem that a great deal of the music I listen to isn't available on iTunes at all in my country and thus will never "match."  About 30% of the stuff I listen too falls into this category.  Basically, what used to be called "imports" in the days of Vinyl.  This stuff not only isn't in the iTunes store of my country, it never will be. It's not likely we will ever be able to buy stuff from other countries iTunes stores legally or easily also.   

Since iTunes won't accept *everything* in your library, one is faced with having essentially two libraries if you want to attempt matching, something which iTunes is basically almost incapable of doing.  Also, since there is so much stuff that iTunes match won't handle, you pretty much have to have a local backup in place for all that stuff which requires an NAS and a backup strategy, redundancy, etc. so if you are going to have to buy the drives, computers, NAS and so forth to back up that stuff locally, then one might as well just back up everything locally and forget about iTunes match all together.  

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Originally Posted by Gazoobee 

 

I would love to embrace the cloud and I do it for everything else, but in terms of iTunes, it just isn't possible for me now and won't be for a while.  

 

I've thought of doing iTunes match just for the music part, but the limitations, restrictions ect. are too prevalent.  There's no guarantee that it will accept tracks you burned off of CD's that were legally bought for instance or movies you took from your own DVD's, and it does quite a bit of violence to your iTunes library just to attempt iTunes match.  

 

There is also the bigger problem that a great deal of the music I listen to isn't available on iTunes at all in my country and thus will never "match."  About 30% of the stuff I listen too falls into this category.  Basically, what used to be called "imports" in the days of Vinyl.  This stuff not only isn't in the iTunes store of my country, it never will be. It's not likely we will ever be able to buy stuff from other countries iTunes stores legally or easily also.   

 

Since iTunes won't accept *everything* in your library, one is faced with having essentially two libraries if you want to attempt matching, something which iTunes is basically almost incapable of doing.  Also, since there is so much stuff that iTunes match won't handle, you pretty much have to have a local backup in place for all that stuff which requires an NAS and a backup strategy, redundancy, etc. so if you are going to have to buy the drives, computers, NAS and so forth to back up that stuff locally, then one might as well just back up everything locally and forget about iTunes match all together.  

iTune's match takes everything even "fair use" back ups which may have came from napster in the nineties, kazaa in the early noughties and other more modern methods, although some of the napster sourced tags are rather dated  and show up a bit weird although they have been backed up from PC to PC for over 15 years

All my AC/DC albums are in the cloud for instance as well as backed up locally.

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Originally Posted by jimbo123 

Nice surprise and I noticed one of my movie purchases had shown up which was a digital copy from my Blu Ray. However others haven't. Suppose it depends if they have struck a deal with that particular studio. Agreed that movies are too expensive on iTunes.

Not all of mine have shown up but I'll try again later as it's just taking a bit of time for some. I don't expect all will because of certain studios but at least I backup[no less than once a week to a 2TB external HDD]. I've invested a lot of money over the years so I've learned many years back to BACKUP on a regular basis.

When I first read this post and signed in to iTunes 56 movies were showing. Next time I signed in, 83 movies and now 226 movies are shown. I have 286 in total so it's getting closer. Btw, I've gotten a lot of my movies for either $5.00 or $10.00 in Apples store in the "Great Movies, Great Prices" section and some of the "Bundles."

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Originally Posted by Gazoobee 

 

I would love to embrace the cloud and I do it for everything else, but in terms of iTunes, it just isn't possible for me now and won't be for a while.  

 

I've thought of doing iTunes match just for the music part, but the limitations, restrictions ect. are too prevalent.  There's no guarantee that it will accept tracks you burned off of CD's that were legally bought for instance or movies you took from your own DVD's, and it does quite a bit of violence to your iTunes library just to attempt iTunes match.  

 

There is also the bigger problem that a great deal of the music I listen to isn't available on iTunes at all in my country and thus will never "match."  About 30% of the stuff I listen too falls into this category.  Basically, what used to be called "imports" in the days of Vinyl.  This stuff not only isn't in the iTunes store of my country, it never will be. It's not likely we will ever be able to buy stuff from other countries iTunes stores legally or easily also.   

 

Since iTunes won't accept *everything* in your library, one is faced with having essentially two libraries if you want to attempt matching, something which iTunes is basically almost incapable of doing.  Also, since there is so much stuff that iTunes match won't handle, you pretty much have to have a local backup in place for all that stuff which requires an NAS and a backup strategy, redundancy, etc. so if you are going to have to buy the drives, computers, NAS and so forth to back up that stuff locally, then one might as well just back up everything locally and forget about iTunes match all together.  

Have you ever checked out iTunes Match? If you did, you probably wouldn't have had to ask these questions. I'm sure that iTunes Match isn't any different where it's available from one country to another; just the cost. Here's the link from Canada. I hope it helps.

http://www.apple.com/ca/itunes/itunes-match/