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Elvis rental not in 4K?

Surge

Well-known member
Hi, I’m seeing that only purchasing Elvis is in 4K/HDR, the rental is HD. Is that correct?!
 
There’s no such thing as geo limitation on the quality a rental! Come on man.
Must be an error.
 
I’m not sure what’s going on there. I would suspect an error in what’s called the “availability” data that determines sale and rental pricing and availability in each movie store territory, but I can’t be sure. There are occasionally really weird limitations that seem like they must be errors but are not.

In any event, I alerted our store team to check on it. Unfortunately, since it’s the weekend, we probably won’t get an answer until tomorrow at the earliest. If it needs to be escalated to the studio it could take a bit longer.

You mentioned that you had emailed support. Did you email support@kaleidescape.com? I see that you emailed me directly and also movies@. Neither of those is a support address, although movies@ will get to the right folks for this question.

Sorry not to be able to get you a quicker answer.
 
I’m not sure what’s going on there. I would suspect an error in what’s called the “availability” data that determines sale and rental pricing and availability in each movie store territory, but I can’t be sure. There are occasionally really weird limitations that seem like they must be errors but are not.

In any event, I alerted our store team to check on it. Unfortunately, since it’s the weekend, we probably won’t get an answer until tomorrow at the earliest. If it needs to be escalated to the studio it could take a bit longer.

You mentioned that you had emailed support. Did you email support@kaleidescape.com? I see that you emailed me directly and also movies@. Neither of those is a support address, although movies@ will get to the right folks for this question.

Sorry not to be able to get you a quicker answer.
Thank you. Will do.
FWIW, I have never seen a quality limitation by renting vs buying in the Apple Canada store. Certainly this movie is available to rent from iTunes in 4K.
 
I just heard back from the store team, and it was indeed a data issue. The 4K version of Elvis should show up for rental on the Canadian store within the hour.

Apologies again for the trouble.
 
Thank you Mike for following-up on this, really appreciate it!
I will rent it tonight.
Happy Holidays.
 
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