CinemaNow and Rovi launch beta at home D2D service

[rdodolak]

Re: CinemaNow and Rovi launch beta at home D2D service

You may want to check for updates as there's a newer version of the CinemaNow/Rovi player available since 12/19. Not sure when this first became available since one of my computers notified me of the update today on startup where as the other did not.

Old Version: 2.6.0.0 Build: 250B58A
New Version: 2.7.0.0 Build: 250B70A

[BJoffe]

Re: CinemaNow and Rovi launch beta at home D2D service

I also bought TEARS OF THE SUN through CinemaNow last night. According to the Ultraviolet locker, the movie should now be available to me in SD and HD.

Through Vudu, the movie is only offered as SD.

Looking the movie up on CinemaNow's website on my browser, it says the movie is available in HD but neither my LG DVD player or XBox 360 is compatible to play it.

Looking at my library through the CinemaNow app on the XBox 360 shows that the movie IS available in HD. I haven't checked the transfer yet, though. The app for the 360 is definitely friendlier at sorting your library than what they have developed for my LG DVD player.

I really wish Vudu was updating their Disc to Digital selection more frequently because I'd rather not waste the money (or time spent checking in more than one place that a movie is in fact available in HD to me).

[BJoffe]

Re: CinemaNow and Rovi launch beta at home D2D service

I signed up for CinemaNow tonight and bought 5 titles via Disc-to-Digital:

BATS
BLUE THUNDER
COP LAND
GHOSTBUSTERS
GODZILLA (1998)

Be careful when you're buying the Sony/Columbia titles as some of them are offered in HD, like GODZILLA (1998) but they are in fact SD. GHOSTBUSTERS looks like a 720p blow-up to me. It has grey bars instead of black bars. I have a feeling that BATS is also a blow-up. Again, all 3 of these titles were offered in HD. I've created a ticket for GODZILLA (1998) and GHOSTBUSTERS and asked them to either remove the titles from my library or give me a credit for the price difference.

In the future, I'm going to be a little more cautious with CinemaNow and reference the titles I want to get thru Disc to Digital against what they are actually offering on their website.

The other 3 titles look good in HD. Nice to see Miramax titles like COP LAND available in this manner.

All 5 movies appeared in my Ultraviolet locker, after I linked it to CinemaNow. BATS, GHOSTBUSTERS and GODZILLA (1998) appear as SD only in both my Ultraviolet locker and in Vudu, while the other 2 titles show up as available in HDX.

[madmod20061]

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I have purchased a few discounted HDX Ultraviolet movies from CinemaNow and they successfully migrated to Vudu (automatically) very quickly.

The odd thing is that I cannot get a "clean" loading of my UV library to appar on CinemaNow. I get dozens of duplicate titles as it attempts to load my collection on CN. I find it frustrating and useless. Vudu loads my collection quickly without hiccups.

So for me, CN is a place to purchase some UV titles when they go on sale. I view them on Vudu. I make sure to NOT buy non UV titles on CinemaNow.

I used to be able to get my library to load by unlinking my uv but that does not work any more. The funny thing is that when uv was down on Christmas my library loaded. It had up to 20 duplicates of some movies. I knew uv was back up when my library disappeared again.

[nycomet]

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I'm still working on getting my Library to load at all. I'd gladly take duplicates

I have purchased a few discounted HDX Ultraviolet movies from CinemaNow and they successfully migrated to Vudu (automatically) very quickly.

The odd thing is that I cannot get a "clean" loading of my UV library to appar on CinemaNow. I get dozens of duplicate titles as it attempts to load my collection on CN. I find it frustrating and useless. Vudu loads my collection quickly without hiccups.

So for me, CN is a place to purchase some UV titles when they go on sale. I view them on Vudu. I make sure to NOT buy non UV titles on CinemaNow.

[madmod20061]

Re: CinemaNow and Rovi launch beta at home D2D service

I'm still working on getting my Library to load at all. I'd gladly take duplicates

[E55KEV]

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This happens regularly with me as well. I found that refreshing the library normally fixes it. Refresh as in close and reopen not unlink.

Correct, library duplicates are have been common with viewing library on internet since CN went UV. Refresh page works. However, even with internet library dups I never had duplicates on my LG CN devices and I have 7 copies of Paranorman in 2 of my LG CinemaNow devices and you cant refresh that.

[OSUGrad2X]

Re: CinemaNow and Rovi launch beta at home D2D service

C'Mon CinemaNow! I redeemed UV code for Paranorman on Dec 25th. It's fine on VUDU but CN has added the title to my library 7 times. 7 copies show in my Library online and 7 copies show on 2 LG Devices with CN app. Jeez!

This happens regularly with me as well. I found that refreshing the library normally fixes it. Refresh as in close and reopen not unlink.

[E55KEV]

Re: CinemaNow and Rovi launch beta at home D2D service

C'Mon CinemaNow! I redeemed UV code for Paranorman on Dec 25th. It's fine on VUDU but CN has added the title to my library 7 times. 7 copies show in my Library online and 7 copies show on 2 LG Devices with CN app. Jeez!

[madmod20061]

Re: CinemaNow and Rovi launch beta at home D2D service

Thanks, I was going to try exactly this because I had my suspicions after the number of failures I had on my MacBook. Now that I'm home I may be able to try D2D with the same discs that failed on a Windows PC.

My mom gave me a bunch of movies to add and four of them were the same. No go on the Mac but worked on my windows laptop. I guess that's all part of the beta process.

[MaxH]

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Here's something kind of odd. On my Mac I tried converting the second 2 Bourne movies and I would always get the message that the disc was not available to convert. I tried on 2 different drives (the built in and an external) and would get the same message. I tried on my Windows laptop and they both converted to HD fine. So now the only 2 movies I could not covert that I should have been able to are Justice League Doom and The Skin I Live In.

Thanks, I was going to try exactly this because I had my suspicions after the number of failures I had on my MacBook. Now that I'm home I may be able to try D2D with the same discs that failed on a Windows PC.

[MaxH]

Re: CinemaNow and Rovi launch beta at home D2D service

OK, time to chime in. The service, as it says, is in Beta. Your feedback will serve to make it a more solid offering. I'm here to help. Flame and I will not answer:

So, you work for CinemaNow/BestBuy? Are you here answering questions as a representative of the company, or are you doing this on your own time, unofficially?

[teke184]

Re: CinemaNow and Rovi launch beta at home D2D service

I've had decent results so far.


Tried about 12 movies, though only 5 of them worked. All that worked were converted as SD and are now visible on UV, Vudu, and Flixster in addition to CinemaNow.

Converted movies-

Annie (1982)
Disclosure
King Kong (Peter Jackson)
Ray
Vantage Point




Most movies that didn't work were understandable as they were not on the D2D list at Vudu either.

One movie, The Holiday, was a bit more of a problem as CinemaNow / Rovi wouldn't even recognize that there was a disc in the drive. That tells me it couldn't evaluate whether it was eligible for D2D or not, but I'm not sure how to fix that besides trying it on another machine.

[OSUGrad2X]

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I'm running Snow Leopard. It's either a problem with the software (which could be specific to certain versions of OSX), or the dozen titles I've tried on their list all happen to have been withdrawn since 12/19, which is possible, but doesn't seem as likely to me. But it's good to know that the OSX version is working for some people.

I'm also running SL and get errors. I still cant get my library to load either.

[D2DGUY]

Re: CinemaNow and Rovi launch beta at home D2D service

OK, time to chime in. The service, as it says, is in Beta. Your feedback will serve to make it a more solid offering. I'm here to help. Flame and I will not answer:

- Buying HD and getting SD - obviously a bug. The wrong token has been placed in the UV locker. This will be rectified and you will get what you paid for or will get refunded. In the meantime, someone here suggested that you look on the CinemaNow website to see if the title you want to redeem is being sold in HD. That will be a good, but not 100% foolproof way. Either way, you will get your HD or will get a refund, but it will take some time to sort the issue out.

- 25 title limit - this isn't actually a D2D limit. It is fraud protection limit that is in place on the site to prevent credit card fraud. It has been there for yearsto protect you from people abusing your credit card, and seemed like a safe limit when it was implemented (because who would do 25 movie transactions in a short time frame) and unfortunately the limit is well, limiting for D2D. Working on it.

- Titles not being available when the list says they are - that's a database error. Hopefully resolved in the next few weeks.

- Titles available on one platform (PC) and not another (Mac) - different implementations of disc authentication and identification. No time frame yet for how long that will take to fix.

- Titles showing up as burned copies - looking into it. Could be Snow Leopard is not fully supported. In other cases, it could be certain nuances to the way those discs were authored.

- Titles not listed as available for Disc To Digital conversion - what do you want to see?

- Guys offering cheap CinemaNow gift codes on this Forum and elsewhere - If you buy these, you are stealing. You might as well just go illegally rip your titles (though that doesn't get you UV copies). The service is an inexpensive, legal solution for converting your old catalog DVD titles to UV copies (and upgrading them to HD). Please don't abuse it.