Vudu, How can I unbundle my movies?

[Prusin]

I know this has come up before and potentially may know the answer from what I've read elsewhere online. However I figured I'd give it a shot to see if I could get a formal response or answer of some kind. I just received an email to fill out a survey for Vudu and honestly happen to be a huge fan of the service and said so in my response. I love Vudu, I do, but one thing really really bugs me, as it seems it does others on here too, is how movies show up as bundles in "My Movies" listing. While one could argue having things like the Friday the 13th, Final Destination, or Harry Potter lots together is helpful and takes up less space there are many other cases I just can't seem to look past. In particular there are bundles like the Harrowing Horror bundle or even things like the Da Vinci Code/Angels and Demons set, that just don't work. They show up in a very odd way when looking at your listing alphabetically. To make matters worse given the addition of Movies Anywhere in the mix, other services show these bundles broken apart which I would love for Vudu to do. So is it ever going to be possible to have a setting somewhere, maybe a filter checkbox, to break bundles apart and show each movie in a bundle individually, is it on the product road map at all or is it just something that is never going to happen? Either way I'd love to know.

Help me Felipe, you're my only hope! : )

[Kotor29]

This is one of the most requested items. I would love to be able to un-bundle certain bundles but also sort my movies more logically.

[Prusin]

Yeah it does seem to be requested quite a bit but sadly I never see a formal response. : (

[jediwizard79]

It would be nice if it worked like on iTunes - you buy a bundle, but the movies show up (or can be downloaded) individually. Alas, not yet for Vudu, though.

[Wasteland]

I've seen comments here from the higher ups that say they can't unbundle a bundle because it's what the studio wants.

I don't get it. The studios want our money. Once they get our money, I doubt they care if someone's two movies in a bundle share the same artwork or not. That's a tad bit crazy.

[B2Net]

There was another thread about this topic and in that thread there was discussion of special features also being in a bundle. That breaking up bundling would cause those to be individual titles as well. My hope if we ever get things broken out of bundles, the special features would stay bundled.

[MrTeeeej85]

I would love to be able to un-bundle certain bundles I've purchased. I've reached out before on Twitter and via the 'contact us' option after scrolling down the homepage. Never had any response. The explanation that's "what the studio wants" doesn't make sense to me all, like Wasteland said they just want our money. Who cares what we do after the fact. I'd also like some kind of Custom filter option, so I can put my library in order the way I want. If you have a large digital library it can be tedious going through movies trying to find something. It could just be me though.

[Wasteland]

There was another thread about this topic and in that thread there was discussion of special features also being in a bundle. That breaking up bundling would cause those to be individual titles as well. My hope if we ever get things broken out of bundles, the special features would stay bundled.

I just can't see that as an issue that can't be fixed. Special features for per title, so if two movies are bundled, it should pull all special features from said ID, and if unbundled should revert back to the special features in each title... I just don't see the special features getting listed as separate titles, and if it's never been tested, how can they say that?

[B2Net]

Here is another thread on the topic...

https://forum.vudu.com/forum/vudu/ge...ngs-in-library

[Prusin]

Yeah I'm not sure I fully believe or understand the "thats what the studios want" argument brought up here in the forums by some members. If that were the case and given the studios involvement with Movies Anywhere, why is it acceptable to show them as individual titles on other sites/services. In terms of making this a business matter, I personally have held off buying some bundles since I dread how they will show up in my library. I know I'm not alone given when I searched on this topic I saw others on the forums and online mentioning the same thing, that they were avoiding bundles for that very reason too.

Odd to me that as a company fixing this issue could potentially increase revenue for Vudu. Anyone out there listening from the Vudu team?? : )

Given I've run product development myself, I get priorities vs return on investment, this very well may be down on the list. However it would be great to hear from someone at Vudu on where this sits or if we are being heard at all.

[Actually_Bryan]

I wonder if this would work:

I have my movies connected on Movies Anywhere, where they are NOT bundled. I wonder if I call Vudu Support and have them remove my bundles from Vudu, if Movies Anywhere will know that they are no longer showing on Vudu and put them back, un-bundled.

I'm not sure how DRM on MA works tho. Does it register that I bought it from Vudu and once it's no longer showing there I lose it under MA as well? I may test it with a small bundle I have to see. But curious if anyone has tried this.

[Wasteland]

I wonder if this would work:

I have my movies connected on Movies Anywhere, where they are NOT bundled. I wonder if I call Vudu Support and have them remove my bundles from Vudu, if Movies Anywhere will know that they are no longer showing on Vudu and put them back, un-bundled.

I'm not sure how DRM on MA works tho. Does it register that I bought it from Vudu and once it's no longer showing there I lose it under MA as well? I may test it with a small bundle I have to see. But curious if anyone has tried this.

If a title is removed from Vudu, it will stop porting into MA, therefor it won't be able to port out from MA back to Vudu.

[Prusin]

Yeah, its a bit odd how other services that are part of Movies Anywhere handles bundles I purchased from Vudu, better than Vudu itself. Its been what over 8 months now since the launch of Movies Anywhere and still no real change in terms of unbundling. Don't get me wrong I'm very thankful for 4K support on my Apple TV from the Vudu Dev team recently but it really still irks me that my same moves show unbundled when viewed from Apple, Amazon, etc but not in the Vudu app. Also there seems to be a known wish list bug as noted on here where individual movies that were part of a bundle get stuck in your wish list. That is still pending a fix. Maybe that will come by resolving unbundling, one can only hope! Maybe one of the moderators can post a reply of some sort.