Walmart vudu promotions

[Walter-S_North_Carolina]

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1. Not having to rely on less than perfect bandwidth
2. Better Quality Audio and Video
3. Can be given as gifts and/or sold later on - not counting gift cards...
4. Bonus features and commentary tracks
5. Wider range of titles
6. Sometimes lower prices, especially with TV shows. iTunes and Vudu's prices for single seasons are too high
7. Collectibility (is that a word?) I collect steelbooks, and I would hate to see the discontinuation of physical media.

1. nope. I can download and watch if I have crappy bandwidth. Not really an issue.
2. only in a laboratory setting. As a human sitting on a couch with a bag of potato chips in my lap, not so much a difference to be noticed between HDX & Bluray Disc.
3. yes, this is why my son got the packaged version of Hunger Games for his bday instead of the EST version.
4. I suspect this to be a temporary delta between the two formats (bluray disc & UV CFF).
5. ...see answer #4
6. not sure I understand this one
7. I collect EST UV titles. my collection is virtual, future proof, and maintained in pristine condition. UV wins this one, hands down.

[Nygiantsfan3342]

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1. nope. I can download and watch if I have crappy bandwidth. Not really an issue.
2. only in a laboratory setting. As a human sitting on a couch with a bag of potato chips in my lap, not so much a difference to be noticed between HDX & Bluray Disc.
3. yes, this is why my son got the packaged version of Hunger Games for his bday instead of the EST version.
4. I suspect this to be a temporary delta between the two formats (bluray disc & UV CFF).
5. ...see answer #4
6. not sure I understand this one
7. I collect EST UV titles. my collection is virtual, future proof, and maintained in pristine condition. UV wins this one, hands down.

Agree to disagree.

1. how long would it take to download if you don't have a good connection, or NO connection?
2. There's no arguing taste. I can tell a difference on my 120" screen and with my audio set up. I couldn't necessarily distinguish between them on my son's 46" TV with audio only coming from the TV itself.

4. Bonus Features are rarely available on older titles. There are NO commentary tracks available through UV/VUDU. You can't argue this point

6. I can buy the Blu-ray version of almost any TV season for less than the price of the VUDU version
7. Not sure what EST means, but I can't agree with you here. I can pick up and hold my steelbooks and admire the artwork any time I want. Most of my steelbooks are also increasing in value.

I am a fan of VUDU and UV. I travel a lot and spend a lot of time watching VUDU movies in my hotel room with my PS3. However, I bring physical discs with me because the hotel's internet is usually 1-2 mbps and not sufficient for streaming. I know that the world is progressing towards streamed media, and I watch a lot of Netflix out of convenience. But when I want to watch a good movie in my theater, I reach for the disc so I get the best Audio and video quality.

[Walter-S_North_Carolina]

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Agree to disagree.

1. how long would it take to download if you don't have a good connection, or NO connection?
2. There's no arguing taste. I can tell a difference on my 120" screen and with my audio set up. I couldn't necessarily distinguish between them on my son's 46" TV with audio only coming from the TV itself.

4. Bonus Features are rarely available on older titles. There are NO commentary tracks available through UV/VUDU. You can't argue this point

6. I can buy the Blu-ray version of almost any TV season for less than the price of the VUDU version
7. Not sure what EST means, but I can't agree with you here. I can pick up and hold my steelbooks and admire the artwork any time I want. Most of my steelbooks are also increasing in value.

I am a fan of VUDU and UV. I travel a lot and spend a lot of time watching VUDU movies in my hotel room with my PS3. However, I bring physical discs with me because the hotel's internet is usually 1-2 mbps and not sufficient for streaming. I know that the world is progressing towards streamed media, and I watch a lot of Netflix out of convenience. But when I want to watch a good movie in my theater, I reach for the disc so I get the best Audio and video quality.

1. ubiquitous broadband. MSO, DSL, Fixed Wireless. take your choice. If I do not have BB, I am not doing UV, then by all means I am buying packaged media.

2. Yes, if you have a wickedly high end home theater setup, then there is a noticeable difference.

4. sure I can. UV CFF is soon to offer this. Part of the "Future Proof" feature that makes UV attractive. A packaged media, once cut is static. A UV title can be migrated, enhanced, extended.....

6. ahh, I see. I did see the new "Monsters vs. Aliens" tv series for sale on Vudu for $1 per episode. That is pretty reasonable, but generally I agree.

7. EST = Electronic Sell Through. Buy a title digitally instead of in packaged media form.

Seems to me in a hotel if you are toting around a PS3, you would rather do a Vudu download of a contingent of titles instead of carrying the physical media. Then you can netflix or vudu stream if the hotel pipes are not too clogged up from other guests. If so, you can just play a downloaded copy of a UV title. A PS3 HDD can be upgraded if you find you are running out of HDD space. On a hotel TV, I can not imagine there is a noticeable delta between BRD & UV downloaded HDX.

just an idea. TT4N.....

[tsken02]

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I travel full-time. I've downloaded the movies I may care to watch from VUDU, and take them all with me. I have HDMI and VGA cables, and usually one or the other will work with the hotel TV. I have a 2 TB USB drive, and I can easily take everything I may ever want in HDX. I can't do that with DVD's, and I don't have a Blu-ray drive for travel.

[mike568]

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ohh, nice. I have SleepyHollow in my library. HDX version.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7kG...it?usp=sharing

I really like that title and it is a good match to Hansel & Gretel. I do have a problem getting SD UV redemptions. I have become a real fanatic concerning HDX. If I am given for free an SD version, I almost want to skip and pay instead for an HDX version just so I can have the HDX in my UV locker.

I do not know what it is like in your home, but watching an HDX version is just so nice it is hard to go back to SD once the HDX bug has sunk its teeth into you.

The problem with UV redemptions is unless I buy a bluray disc version I do not get an HDX UV redemption.

This is a big problem for me. If I am going to fork over the premium for a bluray disc copy, I might as well just get the EST version instead and save having to store another plastic case in my boxes in my garage. I have not bought a packaged media in about two years. All my new titles since then have been EST versions and I just do not see me going back to packaged media any time soon, if ever.

I bought Hunger Games to give to my son for his birthday. I do not count that one. Before that, the last packaged media I bought was Harry Potter DH#2 in 2011. It was also the first title I redeemed via UV. Since then, all my entertainment media purchases have been EST. Titles include;

1) Sherlock Holmes
2) Sherlock Holmes - Game of Shadows
3) Transformers #2
4) Transformers #3
5) PotC - On Stranger Tides
6) Conan The Barbarian (2011)
7) Contact
8) Mission Impossible Collection
9) Indiana Jones Collection
10) Predator (1987)
11) Shaolin
12) Robin Hood (2010)
13) Snow White & The Huntsmen
14) Seven Years in Tibet
15) Independence Day

I just can not seem to find reason to buy packaged media anymore. I am in the mode of completing to convert my existing packaged media library into UV via D2D and continuing on the path of EST for future purchases.

What benefit is there in paying for the physical media?

Why buy a movie on Vudu in HDX via EST when the Blu-ray that is cheaper will give Vudu HDX rights for FREE? I understand when you buy a movie in HDX if the movie is not on Blu-ray and not planned to be released anytime soon.

[Walter-S_North_Carolina]

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Why buy a movie on Vudu in HDX via EST when the Blu-ray that is cheaper will give Vudu HDX rights for FREE? I understand when you buy a movie in HDX if the movie is not on Blu-ray and not planned to be released anytime soon.

I agree, but none of my EST purchases cost >= to a bluray combo pack. All things being equal, I think I would rather at this point get the EST version. I have not put an optical disk into a player to watch a movie in a very long time. Buying one would only be kidding myself that I will at some point in the future. Instead, I know it will just sit in a box in the garage.

[OSUGrad2X]

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I agree, but none of my EST purchases cost >= to a bluray combo pack. All things being equal, I think I would rather at this point get the EST version. I have not put an optical disk into a player to watch a movie in a very long time. Buying one would only be kidding myself that I will at some point in the future. Instead, I know it will just sit in a box in the garage.

What is this "EST version" you speak of??

[Walter-S_North_Carolina]

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What is this "EST version" you speak of??

electronic sell through (vudu purchase instead of packaged media).

[jeremymc7]

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Why buy a movie on Vudu in HDX via EST when the Blu-ray that is cheaper will give Vudu HDX rights for FREE? I understand when you buy a movie in HDX if the movie is not on Blu-ray and not planned to be released anytime soon.

The Blu-Ray doesn't always give HDX, though this has been improving. You can always wait and see what someone else reports before you buy the disc but then you "have to wait" and sometimes the pre-order was a better deal so you miss out. Wal-Mart is better about telling you what you'll get but Amazon and others don't often confirm the UV quality, in some case they don't get more specific than "digital" which could be iTunes, and then you don't know the iTunes quality. Likewise for 3D titles only a VERY small handful give you 3D HDX so you HAVE to buy it on Vudu.

If you want to make sure you get an HDX Vudu quality (be it Vudu only or UV) buying it from Vudu direct is the easier, but often more expensive route, or only (IE most 3D) option.

[Walter-S_North_Carolina]

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The Blu-Ray doesn't always give HDX, though this has been improving. You can always wait and see what someone else reports before you buy the disc but then you "have to wait" and sometimes the pre-order was a better deal so you miss out. Wal-Mart is better about telling you what you'll get but Amazon and others don't often confirm the UV quality, in some case they don't get more specific than "digital" which could be iTunes, and then you don't know the iTunes quality. Likewise for 3D titles only a VERY small handful give you 3D HDX so you HAVE to buy it on Vudu.

If you want to make sure you get an HDX Vudu quality (be it Vudu only or UV) buying it from Vudu direct is the easier, but often more expensive route, or only (IE most 3D) option.

I do agree in general. In my case, I do not think any of my EST purchases would of cost more then the individual titles in BluRay Combo packs.

Also, there is what is known as a "value add" Vudu offers. Just like a convenience store can charge you $3 for a bag of potato chips that you may be able to buy for less money and in a larger quantity at the back-lot warehouse club, they sell a lot of them due to the value add of convenience.

So too with Vudu. It may in some cases cost a few dollars more, but it is awfully convenient to make HDX entertainment purchases from pushing my Roku remote button twice while sitting on my couch.

[Blurayfan]

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Just picked up the In-Store Pre-Order of A Good Day to Die Hard Blu-ray/DVD Combo with Digital Copy for $19.96.

This purchase includes a DIGITAL HD version of A Good Day to Die Hard.
Watch bonus rental versions of Die Hard and Die Hard 2 in HD beginning 5/14/13. A combo pack that includes the Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy of A Good Day to Die Hard will be delivered to your home on or around 6/04/13.

[E55KEV]

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Anyone know what the "+ VUDU Offer (Walmart Exclusive)" is for Cloud Atlas? Thanks.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/23807785

[swiss21]

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Just picked up the In-Store Pre-Order of A Good Day to Die Hard Blu-ray/DVD Combo with Digital Copy for $19.96.

Wow rentals? That's too bad. Does it actually grant rental copies? Someone said they have UV copies of both movies on another forum.

[Blurayfan]

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Wow rentals? That's too bad. Does it actually grant rental copies? Someone said they have UV copies of both movies on another forum.

There are two codes in the Pre-Order. One for A Good Day to Die Hard digital copy and shipment of the movie. The second code gives the rentals of Die Hard and Die Hard 2. Since I already own those through D2D I didn't redeem that code.

[nugent]

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Definitely just rentals. How lame!
Hope this isn't their new trend.

See attached,
http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/2105/gooddayi.jpg