So, I bought Inglourious Basterds on Blu-Ray with Digital Copy. This is my second Digital Copy purchase, the first having been Wall-E last summer. At that time I noted that everything was failing because I started out trying to import the digital copy with iTunes running — it only worked then if iTunes was not running, and then it worked.
Today the experience was different, but still problematic. I happen to be running Parallels with Windows XP for some work I have to do occasionally, and it was running. I purposefully turned off iTunes, expecting a replay of last time, but found that nothing happened — I was in the Mac OS, not using the Parallels that I have set to Spaces 2.
So, what happened was this: Parallels took control of the disk, and for the 3 or 5 minutes I was waiting the Windows version of the “activate” window was waiting. Once I disconnected that drive from Parallels it showed up in the Mac, and double-clicking on the install drive launched iTunes.
File size, 1.92 GB. Am I surprised that there were problems? Not really, DRM is usually a problem.
This Christmas season it seems like the studios are trying to really throw value in, I’ve seen in the advertisements 3 or 4 disc combinations with BluRay, DVD, digital copy, and extras. Seems kind of like a stopgap measure, but as far as consumer value goes it’s all a plus.