Please Extend D2D "Promotion Period" Due To Excessive Bugs!

[craiggers88]

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Thank you Vudu!!!!!!!!

[jman33]

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Now fix all the errors so I can give you more of my money.

[Walter-S_North_Carolina]

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you lucky dogs. I thought I would be seeing you all in the stores again. I guess that is parked until after the holidays.

Enjoy!!

[MaxH]

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This is why I've been avoiding using Flixster, CinemaNow, even Walmart D2D until the promotion was over and done. Well, partially because I'm cheap, and I'm holding out hope that I can do the $1/$2.50 conversions for as many titles as possible, but the end result is that I wish VuduToGo would...

[godsey284@frontiernet.net]

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Thank you Vudu for extending this. Here is another reason I am glad that I chose this site to do my movies.

Tony

[jeremymc7]

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Now fix all the errors so I can give you more of my money.

I would love to get more titles and give them more money as well. Don't think it really is much of an impact to them. Pretty sure at $1 / title they are actually doing this at a loss. Unlikely, but perhaps breakeven.

The whole point was just to get it working and drive business toward the model. The problem is that this whole concept was supposed to have been up and running well over a year ago and so many people have people have tried, felt burned, and written up negative press all over the web. There's not much positive press to offset it either. At this point I almost look at it as filling in the collection gaps in a certain marketplace until the rest of the holes get filled in.

[Walter-S_North_Carolina]

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I would love to get more titles and give them more money as well. Don't think it really is much of an impact to them. Pretty sure at $1 / title they are actually doing this at a loss. Unlikely, but perhaps breakeven.

The whole point was just to get it working and drive business toward the model. The problem is that this whole concept was supposed to have been up and running well over a year ago and so many people have people have tried, felt burned, and written up negative press all over the web. There's not much positive press to offset it either. At this point I almost look at it as filling in the collection gaps in a certain marketplace until the rest of the holes get filled in.

the old-line enthusiasts feel threatened by this new technology. They are very verbal in their criticism. They have invested interest in keeping the market focused on the old model of buying packaged media and using plastic discs for playback.

The thing to keep an eye on is not the number of bloggers who write nasty things about UV, but the macro numbers.

According to WB CFO, UV experienced a 50% growth in Q1 & Q2 2013. If they keep on a trajectory of 100% growth per year, the exponential math is pretty easy to spell out who will be the 900 lbs gorilla, no matter how much DVD enthusiasts complain.

[madmod20061]

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the old-line enthusiasts feel threatened by this new technology. They are very verbal in their criticism. They have invested interest in keeping the market focused on the old model of buying packaged media and using plastic discs for playback.

The thing to keep an eye on is not the number of bloggers who write nasty things about UV, but the macro numbers.

According to WB CFO, UV experienced a 50% growth in Q1 & Q2 2013. If they keep on a trajectory of 100% growth per year, the exponential math is pretty easy to spell out who will be the 900 lbs gorilla, no matter how much DVD enthusiasts complain.

Yes. Plus the Itunes defenders out there. They are also very vocal. "UV is not a digital copy if I can't play it in Itunes" is a common complaint I read in reviews. Digital copy does not = Itunes. Digital copy means any copy that's digital in nature. I don't see how that is hard for people to understand.

[Walter-S_North_Carolina]

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Yes. Plus the Itunes defenders out there. They are also very vocal. "UV is not a digital copy if I can't play it in Itunes" is a common complaint I read in reviews. Digital copy does not = Itunes. Digital copy means any copy that's digital in nature. I don't see how that is hard for people to understand.

those folk suffer from delusions of grandeur. 13% of the global cell phone market and they think the world revolves around them and anything non-Apple corp is garbage.

A little splash of water. Vudu and Amazon Prime work on iOS.

Apple Video on an iPhone or iPad via iTunes Home Sharing is an embarrassment. Anytime you add a title to the iTunes library, the meta data gets screwed up on any mobile devices linked to it. The fix is to turn off home sharing on the iPhone and reboot it. Then turn Home Sharing back on.

This is a known bug that Apple Corp. has done nothing to fix for over two years.

Our family has two iPhones, two iPads, an iPod Touch, and an AppleTV. I do know good and well Apple Corp is not the monopoly to which every vendor in the CE industry must pay homage. On the contrary, they are slipping fast into fading memory.

[lujan]

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...

... I do know good and well Apple Corp is not the monopoly to which every vendor in the CE industry must pay homage. On the contrary, they are slipping fast into fading memory.

I just had another terrible event happen on a couple of movie purchases on iTunes because Vudu did not have them. Yesterday after a month or so after the purchase, I finally decided to watch one of the movies. Apple (or their content provider) decided to edit the movies so that the private parts were obscured from view using haze blocks (not sure this is the correct terminology). This was not described anywhere on the description of the movie so the customer has no idea that this is being done before purchasing or renting. I ended up sending a support incident in for 2 movies because of this and asking for a refund. I got the refund and also asked how a customer is supposed to know this prior to purchasing for future reference? All they said is that it's up to the content provider and tried to absolve themselves of all responsibility. They also said that it's up to the customer to find this out by reading the reviews of the movies. This makes me resolve even more never to purchase another movie from Apple (iTunes) in the future. Long live Vudu and I hope they don't start selling movies that have been edited without telling the customer beforehand?