Download Not Working

[elwaylite]

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Yepp, people like WB, CBS and NBC have us by the short and curlys.

[canadien37]

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Elway, I have to disagree with you on your comment......I definitely don't feel that way.....I do have choices as to what to do with my discretionary income....If a business does not value my doing business with them, my dollars will go elsewhere, and as the economy tanks further, the content providers better get a clue because people can kick them to the curb just like anything else, or foster even more piracy....I think VUDU is an awesome product, but the studios are handcuffing them....It truly frustrates me as a consumer when the arrogant content titans think they have us by the ba**s, but they don't, the pirates prove that every day....I just want to do it the right way, but they are punishing people who really want to buy their product and have fair use of it....

To be honest, I don't watch TV at all, I primarily watch movies...news, etc. I get online at my convenience......Ultimately they will have to change their business strategy to be more consumer-friendly....Give us fair use of the content we buy and the providers can make some serious money!!! Part of fair use for me is being able to archive my films by storing them locally.....It would royally tick me off if I am limited to streaming only and something happens to VUDU, i.e. goes out of business, there is some sort of outage, etc...... and I don't have access to my purchased films......

[elwaylite]

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Sounds like you are mad at the same things as me, why do you disagree?

[canadien37]

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Because you mentioned that they have us by the short and curlies.......I definitely don't feel that way.....They absolutely DO NOT!!!! When any business gets arrogant enough to tell me "you can't do without us", I tell them to take a hike....content, be it movies, TV, etc. is only entertainment, it is not necessary to live.....

[bald_]

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is there a way to trigger a STB to download from the website? I have my stb connected to a projector, so it would be a pain to go to the theater, turn it on, trigger the download via the stb, rather than just have it default that way through the web as it has in the past. sort of frustrating. it use to be so slick.

bald

[elwaylite]

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is there a way to trigger a STB to download from the website? I have my stb connected to a projector, so it would be a pain to go to the theater, turn it on, trigger the download via the stb, rather than just have it default that way through the web as it has in the past. sort of frustrating. it use to be so slick.

bald

We lost a great feature there, would be nice to still have it.

[raaurora]

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We lost a great feature there, would be nice to still have it.

I had not even thought to try but is it safe to assume I can't download via the iphone app either?

[elwaylite]

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I had not even thought to try but is it safe to assume I can't download via the iphone app either?

Dunno about that one.

[coachkecz]

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Right now the feature to download rentals is only available on the STB's. Blu-Ray players and TV's only have the ability to download purchases at this time.

Is that right? Why not allow rental downloads to other devices? One of the major problems with all of the current streaming solutions is the growing difficulty in maintaining consistent bandwidth. The proliferation of streaming-capable devices as well as content delivery platforms is putting a lot of pressure on network infrastructure. Service providers are clamping down (in some cases literally, by choking off bandwidth to data-intensive applications). This is going to mean more problems with buffering and other related issues. These will ultimately hurt all streaming services and slow adoption. The alternative will be to reduce the quality of the programming so it can fit into ever narrowing bandwidth limits.

Downloads provide much needed relief from this. Further, integrating a VUDU iPhone app for use with other devices would really improve the overall experience. I would love to be able kick off a rental download before I leave the office and have it waiting for me after dinner (and know that I wouldn't have to worry about peak internet usage, buffering, stutters, etc.).

Are there plans to allow this in the future? Should I just go find an old VUDU box on amazon and ebay to avoid the hassle of buffering?

[canadien37]

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Is that right? Why not allow rental downloads to other devices? One of the major problems with all of the current streaming solutions is the growing difficulty in maintaining consistent bandwidth. The proliferation of streaming-capable devices as well as content delivery platforms is putting a lot of pressure on network infrastructure. Service providers are clamping down (in some cases literally, by choking off bandwidth to data-intensive applications). This is going to mean more problems with buffering and other related issues. These will ultimately hurt all streaming services and slow adoption. The alternative will be to reduce the quality of the programming so it can fit into ever narrowing bandwidth limits.

Downloads provide much needed relief from this. Further, integrating a VUDU iPhone app for use with other devices would really improve the overall experience. I would love to be able kick off a rental download before I leave the office and have it waiting for me after dinner (and know that I wouldn't have to worry about peak internet usage, buffering, stutters, etc.).

Are there plans to allow this in the future? Should I just go find an old VUDU box on amazon and ebay to avoid the hassle of buffering?

I agree wholeheartedly with this....one major reason I have advocated local storage of films( I did at one time say on an external HDD, but now just a set-top box with integrated HDD will do.).....If you can get the XL VUDU box, it has a 1TB HDD inside.....Those are hard to come by, however....The standard box has a 250GB HDD, HDX movies will fill that up in no time.....In the meantime, an ideal situation for me would be the ability to shift films from the HDD to the cloud to free up space, then I could decide which films I want to store locally.....

[aaronwt]

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Will VUDU on the PS3 be streaming only or allow storage on it's internal hard drive?

[dterry]

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New to VUDU this summer and first time poster. Things worked fine until a couple of weeks ago, now I can't watch HDX or HD without constant buffering.
Currently my vudu test speed is only half the speed I see on my computer(s).

Can someone just tell me how to download (vs stream) a rental HD or HDX movie - I don't see the option.

Is it normal for VUDU to make changes like this without giving any kind of heads-up? They send me emails telling me to rent/buy stuff... why can't they tell me what to do when they screw things up?

[raaurora]

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Can someone just tell me how to download (vs stream) a rental HD or HDX movie - I don't see the option.

when you go through the rental process and you confirm your rental, you should get a screen with 3 options. One is 'Watch now' (streaming) and the last is 'Download and watch later' (amazingly I can't recall what the 2nd is but it does not relate to what you are asking). The 'download and watch later' does the download to the hard drive.

[Guest]

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it depends on what type of device you have. You can only pre-download rentals on the VUDU box. As far as your buffering problems, please call our support team so that we can help. 888-554-8838

[daycos]

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is there a way to trigger a STB to download from the website? I have my stb connected to a projector, so it would be a pain to go to the theater, turn it on, trigger the download via the stb, rather than just have it default that way through the web as it has in the past. sort of frustrating. it use to be so slick.

bald

I have the exact same setup, and the inability to initiate downloads from the website has me looking for other sources for viewing first, and only using vudu as a last resort. Used to be the other way around...