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    Quality improves over time of conversions?

    I converted a handful of bluray/dvds all to HDX.

    Some of the Vudu version's picture quality is quite poor, grainy, poor sound.
    Some of them, the sound is only in DD 2.0, where the disk was DD 5.1

    Has any of the Vudu versions ever got better, where Vudu improved their version after the fact?
    Is what I get now, going to be as good is it gets?

    Before anyone asks, I have streamed many other purchases on Vudu and some conversions where the sound and picture was really good.

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    Re: Quality improves over time of conversions?

    Originally posted by JohnJoe View Post
    I converted a handful of bluray/dvds all to HDX.

    Some of the Vudu version's picture quality is quite poor, grainy, poor sound.
    Some of them, the sound is only in DD 2.0, where the disk was DD 5.1

    Has any of the Vudu versions ever got better, where Vudu improved their version after the fact?
    Is what I get now, going to be as good is it gets?

    Before anyone asks, I have streamed many other purchases on Vudu and some conversions where the sound and picture was really good.
    Improvements can and have happened. But usually are somewhat rare. Usually this happens when a studio re-releases a title, in particular with a pack-in Digital HD slip. Then the studios will usually send a new encode of the film to the digital outlets.

    The newer the encode, usually the better the picture and sound quality.

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      Re: Quality improves over time of conversions?

      Originally posted by diamond204 View Post
      The newer the encode, usually the better the picture and sound quality.
      Thanks, I can hope. It is the sound quality options that really bother me.
      For example I have the disk converted Saving Private Ryan, which has a GREAT DTS/DD5.1 surround soundtrack.
      Vudu's versions is DD 2.0, spoils a great film.

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        Re: Quality improves over time of conversions?

        Originally posted by JohnJoe View Post
        Thanks, I can hope. It is the sound quality options that really bother me.
        For example I have the disk converted Saving Private Ryan, which has a GREAT DTS/DD5.1 surround soundtrack.
        Vudu's versions is DD 2.0, spoils a great film.
        Agreed, very frustrating.

        Here is a thread with a non-comprehensive list of 2.0 titles with the hopes Vudu will upgrade them. A few have been but a great many to go...
        https://forum.vudu.com/showthread.ph...certain-titles!

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          Re: Quality improves over time of conversions?

          Thanks for that link.

          I just converted The Shining, HDX picture quality is really good... but the sound is awful 2.0 stereo.

          On Netflix the sound is DD+ 5.1

          I doubt that I will convert many more films now.

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            Re: Quality improves over time of conversions?

            Originally posted by JohnJoe View Post
            Thanks for that link.

            I just converted The Shining, HDX picture quality is really good... but the sound is awful 2.0 stereo.

            On Netflix the sound is DD+ 5.1

            I doubt that I will convert many more films now.

            so, if it's available on Netflix with 5.1 sound then the studio HAS released it that way on digital....so I don't understand why it isn't available on Vudu.... it obviously ISN'T a studio thing

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              Re: Quality improves over time of conversions?

              Originally posted by wally_scorpio View Post
              so, if it's available on Netflix with 5.1 sound then the studio HAS released it that way on digital....so I don't understand why it isn't available on Vudu.... it obviously ISN'T a studio thing
              Exactly.

              I have a feeling that the studios want Vudu(etc) to go away though.

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                Re: Quality improves over time of conversions?

                Originally posted by JohnJoe View Post
                Exactly.

                I have a feeling that the studios want Vudu(etc) to go away though.
                Why do you think that?

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                  Re: Quality improves over time of conversions?

                  Originally posted by JohnJoe View Post
                  Exactly.

                  I have a feeling that the studios want Vudu(etc) to go away though.
                  I disagree, I think studios are absolutely on board with digital distribution like Vudu for a variery of reasons.

                  1) It's easy and may help combat piracy.
                  2) A sale is a sale, money was made.
                  3) This is my total conspiracy theory... the long shot that the distributor will go belly up and you'll have to buy again because all you had was a license, not a copy that you actually own.
                  4) Along the same lines I've seen people claim to stop buying and rent now since they only watch a purchase every few years. It's possible they'll collect revenue from the same viewers repeatedly over the years.

                  The fact that I can buy a movie digitally weeks before the disc is available says a lot to me.

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                    Re: Quality improves over time of conversions?

                    Originally posted by andrea4k View Post
                    Why do you think that?
                    If you look at the tools that a home user has access to, to extract a bluray disk in high quality, and compare that quality to any streaming service rental/purchase.

                    They do not compare, the picture quality is lacking, the sound is usually terrible not even in surround sound.

                    I have watch DVDs (not bluray) that have looked better than HD Netflix/ HDX Vudu films with DD 5.1 or DTS soundtracks, the streaming version lacked.

                    The movie industry wants people to keep re-buying the same films over and over again, on different formats.

                    The same as the music industry wants to. [Online music sound quality is AWFUL, no reason for that]

                    They are making online film access poor quality on purpose.

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                      Re: Quality improves over time of conversions?

                      Originally posted by JohnJoe View Post

                      They are making online film access poor quality on purpose.
                      I have found the quality to be excellent.

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