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US BR & 4K Releases for July & August 2022

MikeKobb said:
Yes. 4K is a single price tier that includes HDR, SDR ("UHD"), or both, depending upon which assets are available from the studio. If you own a movie and it initially has one of the 4K formats, and then the other becomes available, then you own that version as well and can download if you wish.

Interesting feedback about the Updates page. The current meaning of that page is, "A version of a movie that is currently downloaded to your system has been updated." This page does not show anything related to versions of the movie you don't have on your system already, including if a new version is added. So, for example, if you have the 4K HDR downloaded, and we add Portuguese subtitles to the HD version, you wouldn't see that movie on your Updates page.

If you had purchased the HD version of a movie, and then 4K became available, you'd see that show up on your Digital Offers page, since it would be a quality upgrade that you'd purchase.

In the case of adding the HDR to movie that has an existing 4K UHD version, though, as described above, there's no cost associated so it doesn't show up in Digital Offers. And because it's not a change to a version of the movie you have downloaded, it doesn't show up in Updates.

I'll talk with the team about this. It does seem like this situation of having a different 4K format added belongs somewhere within the Updates concept.
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Thanks Mike, pretty clear.
Is SD a separate tier from HD as well?
 
Yeah, so let me back up and say that there's an added wrinkle here which is what's called "unified pricing". Some studios have elected to charge a single price for movies, and that price includes any and all qualities. Other studios do up to three pricing tiers: SD, HD, and 4K. For movies that have tiered pricing, any given tier includes all of the other tiers that are at a lower quality level. So, buy 4K and you can download whatever version you want. Buy SD, and you can only download SD.

Make sense?
 
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