* Mobile Disc to Digital is not supported within the iOS app. Visit vudu.com/disc on your iPhone browser for details. In addition to the aforementioned not working problems (VUDU Disc to Digital not recognizing disc, Disc to Digital list not working, DVD disc reading error, etc), another factor you should take into consideration is the price of DVD converision via VUDU D2D service.
CREDIT: Courtesy of Vudu, ’s premium video-streaming service, will now let people “convert” DVD and collections into digital copies — which they can then watch on hundreds of different internet-connected devices — using their smartphones. The new Mobile Disc-to-Digital feature allows customers to scan the UPC bar code on a DVD or Blu-ray case using the service’s app, then pay to gain access the movie on Vudu’s streaming service.
The feature is slated to go live in the Vudu apps for iOS and Android on Thursday, March 23, at 12 p.m. But there’s a key catch: Customers must be physically located at their home billing address in order for the disc-to-digital conversion to work from their phones. That’s an anti-fraud measure designed to ensure someone actually owns the DVD — and is not, say, running willy-nilly through the aisles of a store scanning bar codes.
Vudu’s app uses GPS to verify a user’s location and make sure it matches the address on file. In addition, the mobile-conversion feature will be capped at 100 titles per year for each account. Meanwhile, the feature isn’t free, although Vudu users will receive one complimentary first-time mobile conversion. Customers can convert a DVD to standard-definition digital or a to HD digital for $2 each.
To upgrade DVDs to HD, Vudu will charge $5 per title. Related And there’s another gotcha: Disney is not participating in the Vudu Mobile Disc-to-Digital program. The feature is available for close to 8,000 movies from Lionsgate, Paramount Home Media Distribution, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. Vudu says it will add more titles in the coming months. Movies available to convert with the Vudu Mobile Disc-to-Digital service include the “Lord of the Rings,” “Harry Potter” and “Jason Bourne” franchises; older films like “Top Gun” and “The Godfather”; comedies like “The Hangover” and “Planes, Trains and Automobiles”; animated films including “Kung Fu Panda” and “The Lorax”; and romances like “The Notebook.” Vudu’s Mobile Disc-to-Digital is similar to the in-home Disc-to-Digital service it has offered for several years; that uses a PC’s DVD drive to scan a disc to verify ownership before it’s made available digitally. Vudu also offers InstaWatch, which automatically sends customers a digital copy of eligible DVDs or Blu-ray discs purchased at Walmart stores and on Walmart.com.
The aim for Vudu is to provide a convenient way for consumers to upgrade their physical movie collections to digital (and, of course, for Vudu to profit from that). According to the company, the average movie collector owns nearly 100 DVDs and Blu-rays. “We know these customers have invested a lot into building their physical movie collections,” said Vudu GM Jeremy Verba. “As more and more customers create digital libraries, we are constantly looking for ways to help them unlock additional value from the movies they already own.”.
I'm posting this here, in case anyone missed it in. VUDU is offer 50% Off all Disc-to-Digital conversions using the In Home software when doing 10 or more items. That means Blu-rays are $1 and DVDs are $2.50 when converting to HDX.
They're also giving a $2 credit to all accounts for a free D2D conversion using the new software. This offer expires on August 31st. This is a great way to get HD versions of movies that haven't been released on Blu-ray. I love converting my old non-anamorphic DVDs to HDX. Lake Placid (non-anamorphic DVD) The Haunting (1999) House On Haunted Hill (1999) Cube Mindhunters John Carpenter's Vampires Jason X Bring It On Snake Eyes (non-anamorphic DVD) Femme Fatale Basic (2003) Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life Urban Legends: The Final Cut Leap of Faith The Englishman That Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain (non-anamorphic DVD) Volcano (non-anamorphic DVD) Eight Legged Freaks Oliver! The Producers (2005) Philadelphia Story Yankee Doodle Dandy Mixed Nuts (current DVD is fullscreen) Prince of Darkness (1987) In The Mouth of Madness Zero Effect Josie & The Pussycats The Dish Team America: World Police Mulholland Drive Virus The Hills Run Red Barton Fink The Pianist Marathon Man A Very Long Engagement Psycho (1998) Notting Hill Top Secret!
Matchstick Men Duck Soup Night at the Opera Day at the Races Idiocracy Rat Race School of Rock Undercover Brother The Last Mimzy Flushed Away Millions Nancy Drew The Avengers (1998) House of the Dead Lost Souls Airplane II: The Sequel Young Sherlock Holmes Evolution Mouse Hunt Ravenous Slither. OK, but what if you don't want that? I've used UV before on my iPad and it looked like shit so I don't really care to have that link, but apparently I am required to have it.You'll need a VUDU account to take advantage of their promotion, as well as to watch them in HDX. As of now, I think they are the only ones that offer UV streaming in 1080p. VUDU is not the same as your UV account. Your UV account would be linked to any streaming provider you choose (including VUDU of course). So for anybody signing up for the first time, they need to create 2 accounts: one with their streaming provider and one for their master UV account.
You don't need to worry about accessing both accounts to add movies, since as they are linked, the info will be passed to both. The nice thing about having a master account is if a streaming provider goes belly up then you don't lose your collection but just use another provider (or several for that matter). You'll need a VUDU account to take advantage of their promotion, as well as to watch them in HDX.
As of now, I think they are the only ones that offer UV streaming in 1080p. VUDU is not the same as your UV account. Your UV account would be linked to any streaming provider you choose (including VUDU of course). So for anybody signing up for the first time, they need to create 2 accounts: one with their streaming provider and one for their master UV account. You don't need to worry about accessing both accounts to add movies, since as they are linked, the info will be passed to both. The nice thing about having a master account is if a streaming provider goes belly up then you don't lose your collection but just use another provider (or several for that matter).I understand they are different.
That's my point. I don't care about or want UV. But, when I logged into my existing Vudu account to check for movies to convert I was required to link to UV, whether it's an existing account or newly created right then and there. I don't see why that should be necessary to convert movies for use within Vudu.
What is to stop one from just going out and renting a bunch of discs and then converting them? I don't think that dvd's are individually serialized (?). Or, perhaps more importantly, what about all of the ex-rental discs that we have purchased through the years (especially blu-rays from Hastings, most of which I picked up for around two bucks a piece)?I'm fairly certain all of these would work. There's an odd chance that they would link the discs to an individual serial number and that further attempts to convert the same disc would be blocked, but I somehow doubt that.
I'm going to be converting 10 to 20 movies per paycheck from DVD to HDX ( when possible). I did my first ten today with the sale:. 100 Girls ( non-anamorphic DVD). 100 Women. Bring It On. Cheats.
Good Burger. Grind ( pan-and-scan DVD). Once. Over the Edge. Private Parts ( non-anamorphic DVD, only available in SD).
Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th The goal is to get as many DVDs that will probably not see Blu-ray releases anytime soon first. If there's an existing Blu-ray, it can wait. I tried Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie, Overnight Delivery, and Spice World which are apart of the program, but it didn't recognize the DVDs. I spot checked a few HDX titles of old classics (Marked Woman and Camille) and there is quite an improvement, especially with the audio (which seems almost muffled on the DVD by comparison). Definitely worth the upgrade, but wish I could use English subs. Also the rewind and FF go way too fast. I'm going to get as many as I can during the next 3 months, since I can't see paying $5 later unless it's got high replay value and no signs of it coming to Blu-ray.
Also I might get some $1 HDX of some BDs I own, but not sure if I'll ever watch them (only on the road or at a friends house I suppose, or if I'm too lazy to put the BD in the tray). I wouldn't do this 'conversion' if hell froze over. It's DRM-infested 2. Bitrates in 1080 are super-low with artifacts galore. It's not on a physical media = Streaming pile of shit!Want to thread crap elsewhere?
DVDs and Blu-rays are copyright protected. Your point being? Vudu's HDX encodes usually hover around 8 - 10Mbps, which is far superior to most cloud based services like Amazon Instant Video, Best Buy CinemaNow, iTunes, and others. The only streaming service that comes close to Vudu's encodes is Netflix's SuperHD service.
I'd rather take a streaming 1080p encode than a standard-definition DVD. Also, as long as your Vudu account is linked to Ultraviolet, the disc-to-digital conversions are linked to your UV account.
All of the titles you convert will be available on most, if not all, UV based services. Even if Vudu fails tomorrow, you'll still be able to access titles off CinemaNow, Flixster, and others. For the DVDs I convert, I'm ditching them unless there's specific material that's not available elsewhere like alternate cuts. For the first bunch of titles, they're bare-bones so I'm good with ditching the discs to Zia, BuyBacks, or whatever. DVDs and Blu-rays are copyright protected. Your point being?I'll assume that you meant 'copy protected', since all creative works are automatically 'copyright protected' when they are created. His point is a valid one.
While DVD's and BD's are copy protected (with encryption) to prevent casual copying, they don't employ DRM which requires an outside authorization in order to playback. That is, I can take any DVD or any Blu-ray to any player anywhere, and it will work, just by sticking the disk in the player. I don't have to authorize my account or manage my devices or anything like that.
That said, I agree with your other points and the points of other posters on here that this is an affordable way to get a decent HD video presentation that you can 'own' for some titles that may never be available on BD. I went through my DVD titles, and found the following available for D2D (all in HDX, I think): Abyss Better Luck Tomorrow Broken Flowers Forget Paris Garden State Ghostbusters 2 Intolerable Cruelty Iron Giant Mallrats Man on the Moon Prince of Egypt Punch-Drunk Love Roger & Me Roger Dodger Sneakers Team America World Police Time Code Titan A.E.
Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life Willard Young Sherlock Holmes I'll probably upgrade most of them.