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Some questions about Ultraviolet and Vudu's role in the future

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    Some questions about Ultraviolet and Vudu's role in the future

    OK, surfing around the different Ultraviolet access points like Flixster, MGo, CinemaNow, Target Ticket, and even the Ultraviolet home page, has gotten me worried about a couple of things.

    Vudu is, without a doubt, the premiere spot to use for Ultraviolet....but what if Vudu goes away?

    Apparently, what you have on Vudu doesn't necessarily mean you will have it on another site...

    I have several movies that are HDX on Vudu, yet come up as just SD on other sites. And I have yet to see a site that even has SD, HD and HDX, it is usually just SD or HD..

    So even if you paid for HDX on Vudu, it doesn't seem to mean that you will have those as HD (let alone HDX) anywhere else if Vudu goes out of business or closes.

    Then there's movies that aren't even carried by other sites, they may show up but when you try to play they say it is unavailable. So even though I buy a movie on Vudu, if Vudu goes under we may just simply lose titles..without anyway of viewing them anymore.

    Not to mention, for overall aesthetics, information provided, ease of use, the other companies are atrocious. Without Vudu, the whole Ultraviolet genre is a joke. Vudu is simply the ONLY way to enjoy your UV collection. So, again, if Vudu goes under, and without any real alternatives, my UV collection gets mothballed basically.

    These are the kind of questions / issues that make it hard to go all in sometimes for this format...
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    Re: Some concerns about Ultraviolet and Vudu

    Originally posted by stryperrocks67 View Post
    I have several movies that are HDX on Vudu, yet come up as just SD on other sites. And I have yet to see a site that even has SD, HD and HDX, it is usually just SD or HD..

    So even if you paid for HDX on Vudu, it doesn't seem to mean that you will have those as HD (let alone HDX) anywhere else if Vudu goes out of business or closes.
    You aren't going to see HDX anywhere else, as it's a format that was created by Vudu. Other stores will only offer SD and HD.

    The UV locker simply says whether you own it in standard or high definition. It doesn't differentiate between HD and HDX.

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      Re: Some concerns about Ultraviolet and Vudu

      Originally posted by jjohns View Post
      You aren't going to see HDX anywhere else, as it's a format that was created by Vudu. Other stores will only offer SD and HD.

      The UV locker simply says whether you own it in standard or high definition. It doesn't differentiate between HD and HDX.
      Ok...thank you for that info. I did not know that.

      That doesn't explain though why some movies that I have as HDX are just listed as being SD when I view my collection elsewhere.

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        Re: Some concerns about Ultraviolet and Vudu

        Originally posted by stryperrocks67 View Post
        Ok...thank you for that info. I did not know that.

        That doesn't explain though why some movies that I have as HDX are just listed as being SD when I view my collection elsewhere.
        That usually means the other service just doesn't currently offer an HD version of the title. The lack of consistency between stores can be annoying, for sure. Things will hopefully improve, with time.

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          Re: Some questions about Ultraviolet and Vudu's role in the future

          It is my belief that the intention was that all UV retailers were to have all UV titles available for streaming on their site. Without that, UV doesn't work as advertised. If a UV title is missing from a site, or the retailer doesn't have it labeled as UV, then you can contact them and request that they update their system. That doesn't mean it will happen right away, but this has worked for me with another UV retailer and with Vudu.

          This doesn't mean that they have to provide both SD and HD. If you own HD then you should be able to watch in SD format, however if you own SD and a retailer only has HD then you may not be allowed to watch your movie on their site.

          If you buy non-UV titles from Vudu and they go under then you loose access to those titles. This is why I still buy physical media. We've all been burnt by the movie, and even music, industry before when they introduce new forms of media and force us to repurchase movies we already own at full price. I have at least 200 movies that I have purchase twice...once on VHS and again on DVD. I now have about 50 or 60 of those titles that I have bought a third time on Blu-ray. I like the convenience of being able to stream movies from the cloud, but it's still fairly new and there is still a lot of uncertainty regarding the longevity of these UV retailers that many families are slowly becoming dependent upon to watch their movies.

          So what I do is this: if I know the movie is one of those that we will want to watch more than once then I will buy the physical media. If I know we will like the movie and may not watch it more than once or twice, and we would be okay if we lost the movie, then I will possibly buy it from a UV retailer if the price is less than the DVD or Blu-ray. If we are not sure we will even like the movie then we will rent the movie instead of buying it.

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            Re: Some questions about Ultraviolet and Vudu's role in the future

            When they roll out CFF I'd expect your HD downloads would work, even if VUDU is gone. We'll need to wait and see.

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              Re: Some questions about Ultraviolet and Vudu's role in the future

              You have all given me some great input on this..thank you.

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                Re: Some concerns about Ultraviolet and Vudu

                Originally posted by jjohns View Post
                You aren't going to see HDX anywhere else, as it's a format that was created by Vudu. Other stores will only offer SD and HD.

                The UV locker simply says whether you own it in standard or high definition. It doesn't differentiate between HD and HDX.
                This implies that that somehow HDX is better than other sites HD which isn't necessarily true. HDX is more for marketing purposes to give consumers the impression that what they are streaming is better than what anyone else can do because they "just have HD". HD is up to 1920 x 1080p resolution which HDX is not higher than and encode and streaming rates would affect quality likely more than resolution. Apple just has 'HD' but in the head-to-heads done on sites like AVS it is usually just as good if not better (though they don't support UV so they can **** off.. )
                *edit apparently p.i.s.s is a bad word now?

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                  Re: Some concerns about Ultraviolet and Vudu

                  Originally posted by CBrown View Post
                  This implies that that somehow HDX is better than other sites HD which isn't necessarily true. HDX is more for marketing purposes to give consumers the impression that what they are streaming is better than what anyone else can do because they "just have HD". HD is up to 1920 x 1080p resolution which HDX is not higher than and encode and streaming rates would affect quality likely more than resolution. Apple just has 'HD' but in the head-to-heads done on sites like AVS it is usually just as good if not better (though they don't support UV so they can **** off.. )
                  *edit apparently p.i.s.s is a bad word now?
                  I wasn't trying to imply anything about HDX versus HD. I was simply explaining to the OP why HDX versions aren't found on services other than Vudu.

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                    Re: Some questions about Ultraviolet and Vudu's role in the future

                    Originally posted by tsken02 View Post
                    When they roll out CFF I'd expect your HD downloads would work, even if VUDU is gone. We'll need to wait and see.
                    What's CFF?

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                      Re: Some questions about Ultraviolet and Vudu's role in the future

                      CFF = Common File Format

                      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UltraV...29#Downloading

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