iCloud for Movies and Books

[Hammie]

I quickly looked but did not see anything, but is there anything in the works to "match" our movie and books in iTunes and make them available in the cloud?

I am much more interested in the books than the movies. I get discounts on technical books from my employer so I do not purchase them via iBookstore. Also, I have tons of technical PDFs that would be nice to access if I don't happen to have them on my iPad.

Thoughts?

 

[x86isslow]

Movies are now available on iCloud in some countries.

http://www.apple.com/itunes/inside-itunes/2012/03/movies-now-available-on-icloud.html

Documents in the Cloud is part of Mountain Lion, it may help with the PDFs.
http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/documents.html

if you have iWork on your iPad

I quickly looked but did not see anything, but is there anything in the works to "match" our movie and books in iTunes and make them available in the cloud?

I am much more interested in the books than the movies. I get discounts on technical books from my employer so I do not purchase them via iBookstore. Also, I have tons of technical PDFs that would be nice to access if I don't happen to have them on my iPad.

Thoughts?

 

[Hammie]

Movies are now available on iCloud in some countries.

http://www.apple.com/itunes/inside-itunes/2012/03/movies-now-available-on-icloud.html

Documents in the Cloud is part of Mountain Lion, it may help with the PDFs.
http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/documents.html

if you have iWork on your iPad

But the movies on iCloud do not "match" my ripped ones. I guess I should have clarified that.

I will play around with the PDFs. Only issue is that they are stored on my Snow Leopard server which I use for my iTunes media hub. I would hate to have them stored in two different locations.

 

[x86isslow]

No, unfortunately there are copyright issues that prevent iTunes from 'matching' your ripped collection right now. There is an initiative, Ultraviolet, that could help with this for future movies, but not for your existing collection AFAIK.

But the movies on iCloud do not "match" my ripped ones. I guess I should have clarified that.

I will play around with the PDFs. Only issue is that they are stored on my Snow Leopard server which I use for my iTunes media hub. I would hate to have them stored in two different locations.

 

[thunderbunny]

Movies are now available on iCloud in some countries.

http://www.apple.com/itunes/inside-itunes/2012/03/movies-now-available-on-icloud.html

Documents in the Cloud is part of Mountain Lion, it may help with the PDFs.
http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/documents.html

if you have iWork on your iPad

You can save pdf's to iCloud via Preview but you can't access them on iOS - iWork doesn't open or display PDFs. Better option is SkyDrive

 

[whsbuss]

You can save pdf's to iCloud via Preview but you can't access them on iOS - iWork doesn't open or display PDFs. Better option is SkyDrive

+1 on SkyDrive