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    Has vudu changed your downloading habits?

    Vudu and D2D has drastically altered the way I pay for, and watch movies. Here is my story.

    I joined the Navy in 2006. At that time I owned about 200 DVD's, all of which I had to leave at home. When you live on a ship, there isn't much room for personal belongings. If you want to bring your movie collection with you, the most efficient way to do that is to bring a laptop and a portable hard drive with your movies. When I discovered this, I began to use bit torrent to download movies, so I that could bring them with me. At that time I stopped buying DVD's period. Over time I acquired about 300 movies, replacing most of the ones I had on DVD, and a whole lot more. But I knew many people who had hard drives with 3 times that many movies. I did feel a little bit guilty, but not too much, because I didn't know of a way to legally bring my collection with me, without buying them again on iTunes, and I sure wasn't going to do that, when I already owned most of the movies on DVD.

    After I was discharged, I went back home and looked for my old DVD's. About 50 of them were missing. I knew that my parents had rented out my room to a college kid while I was away. He didn't take all of them, that would have been too obvious to my brother's, who still lived in the house, But he got a lot of the more valuable Disney ones. I was upset of course, because that was a lot of money to me, and insurance didn't cover it. But at least I had the hard drive. But then I heard about the Disc to Digital program, and vudu. As soon as it launched, I began to take the DVD's I had left to Wal-Mart to get them converted. Most of them I upgraded to HDX. I loved the convenience of being able to watch my movies anywhere, on any device. And I wouldn't have to worry about theft anymore. But you know all the advantages of D2D. Movies that I didn't have on DVD, such as the ones that got stolen, and newer movies that I hadn't yet purchased, I got used on half.com, and then upgraded them as well. In a few months I had built up a collection of 200 movies on vudu. Then I erased all the movies I had on my hard drive, except for about 30 Disney movies. Some of those were the ones that got stolen, so I didn't feel too bad. Now I have over 400 movies.

    But there are still hundreds of movies that I would like to own that are not available for D2D conversion, or for sale on vudu at all. I think consumers are tired of buying the same movies over and over! Maybe we already bought them on VHS, DVD, and Blu-ray. For people like me, if a film is not easily available, downloading them is so much more convenient. When the studio's don't give people options to buy the film legally, they will take the easy route. So I think Disney and MGM are losing a lot of money to piracy due to their refusal to join the UV program. Wake up!

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    Re: Has vudu changed your downloading habits?

    Originally posted by echopulse View Post
    ... So I think Disney and MGM are losing a lot of money to piracy due to their refusal to join the UV program. Wake up!
    I thought Vudu was telling us since February or so that MGM would be joining soon? How soon is soon?

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      Re: Has vudu changed your downloading habits?

      I work in technology. I have a masters degree in information technology, summa cume laude, and a baccalaureate in MIS. I have worked in technology my whole 18 year career.

      To download a movie via Bit-Torrent (or rip my own physical media), store the local copy, ensure AV sync, locate the album art, make sure the rip was good, put into place an entertainment LAN system in my house is child's play.

      However, to pay a professional $2 for a lateral & $5 for an upgrade rip and to cloud store it on a fully baked app stored on a redundant storage array is a really good deal.

      I am glad to get my free time back to become a consumer under these terms. Plus, no need to keep in place a entertainment client server system on my home LAN.

      Sign me up.

      for less then the cost of a six pack of beer, I can have a title ripped by a pro and stored permanently in pristine condition on a cloud based redundant storage array and be able to access instantly via a remote to my family's livingroom flat screen and a plethora of mobile options.

      Further, this rip is not subject to a local hard drive crashing.

      For new purchases, I just did about 20 new titles on EST recently due to a company bonus payout leaving me with some extra disposable income. I do feel a sense of moral obligation to stay above the boards and do not mind transferring what I would of use to buy in physical media into EST. To me, that is only fair.

      Also, being in technology as long as I have been, I have found those who play by the rules, end up coming out sitting in a chair when the music stops.

      Thx for the thread topic.

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        Re: Has vudu changed your downloading habits?

        I can't say it changed my downloading habits, but, like Walter, it has saved me significant time and effort. Now, instead of buying a movie and going through the hassles of ripping it to a digital version, including the 'gray area' of circumventing copy protection, I just buy movies that are available on D2D, or that come with Vudu/UV copies.

        For the time being, I am deleting my ripped copies as I convert my movies to Vudu. Once CFF comes out I will download everything I own and store it on my NAS so I am not bridled by someone else's performance capabilities.

        I still have many GB of movies on local/network drives as I wait for certain studios to join the UV party (really hope Disney will at least bring DigitalCopy+ to their catalog titles that I already own, so I can get a Vudu copy).

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          Re: Has vudu changed your downloading habits?

          It's definitely changed mine. I find myself buying a lot more digital movies than I used to. I also used to use handbrake to rip and convert my movies to Itunes copies. I would constantly have to upgrade my hard drive in order to have enough room. Now I just have my Disney, MGM and Independent movies on there (and the few UV studio movies that aren't UV). It saves a lot of hassle and I was able to go through and delete my old rips once I D2D the movies. The DVDs were a no brainer since it was HD vs my SD rips.

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            Re: Has vudu changed your downloading habits?

            Originally posted by madmod20061 View Post
            It's definitely changed mine. I find myself buying a lot more digital movies than I used to. I also used to use handbrake to rip and convert my movies to Itunes copies. I would constantly have to upgrade my hard drive in order to have enough room. Now I just have my Disney, MGM and Independent movies on there (and the few UV studio movies that aren't UV). It saves a lot of hassle and I was able to go through and delete my old rips once I D2D the movies. The DVDs were a no brainer since it was HD vs my SD rips.

            Me too.

            iTunes is my Disney ripped collection. Nothing more.

            Once Disney studios joins DECE, and I do D2D conversions on the Disney Bluray titles and D2D upgrades on the Disney DVD titles, I will be hard pressed to find a use for my in home iTunes. It will be empty then. Maybe some hand held home video rips.

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              Re: Has vudu changed your downloading habits?

              ...and I would like to add, I agree with Mr. EP. Disney is loosing out on these folks who are migrating out of the shadows.

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                Re: Has vudu changed your downloading habits?

                Originally posted by Walter-S_North_Carolina View Post
                I work in technology. I have a masters degree in information technology, summa cume laude, and a baccalaureate in MIS. I have worked in technology my whole 18 year career.

                To download a movie via Bit-Torrent (or rip my own physical media), store the local copy, ensure AV sync, locate the album art, make sure the rip was good, put into place an entertainment LAN system in my house is child's play.

                However, to pay a professional $2 for a lateral & $5 for an upgrade rip and to cloud store it on a fully baked app stored on a redundant storage array is a really good deal.

                I am glad to get my free time back to become a consumer under these terms. Plus, no need to keep in place a entertainment client server system on my home LAN.

                Sign me up.

                for less then the cost of a six pack of beer, I can have a title ripped by a pro and stored permanently in pristine condition on a cloud based redundant storage array and be able to access instantly via a remote to my family's livingroom flat screen and a plethora of mobile options.

                Further, this rip is not subject to a local hard drive crashing.

                For new purchases, I just did about 20 new titles on EST recently due to a company bonus payout leaving me with some extra disposable income. I do feel a sense of moral obligation to stay above the boards and do not mind transferring what I would of use to buy in physical media into EST. To me, that is only fair.

                Also, being in technology as long as I have been, I have found those who play by the rules, end up coming out sitting in a chair when the music stops.

                Thx for the thread topic.
                Amen to that! Preach.

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