Love VUDU but here are my gripes..

[Navigator]

Elf is on the $2 MD2D list, so she can get the HD for cheap if she has a barcode to scan for it.

[hunterxy]

1. If a movie is only in SD now, can we upgrade to HDX if avail in the future for a couple of bucks?

2. Prefer the old black look. Can we have a provision in "Settings" to choose our own background colors? I could do this with a Comcast cable box.

3. The slowest scan speed is still too fast

4. Can I have, say, Bates Motel in a bundle, even if not discounted, so I only see one thumbnail in my collection instead of 5?

5. Can't remove titles already bought from my Wishlist

6. Make the time counter in the bottom right larger. Too small to read.

7. The search function is a nightmare. Take a page from Netflix.

8. Why does it ask me to keep rating the movie every time i watch it? I already did the first time.

9. The last 25 movies I punched in are not available. No Wonder Boys? Where is Death on the Nile? Deconstructing Harry?

10. Why is Seinfeld a square picture? Would not have purchased if I knew this. Want it in Widescreen like on TBS.

All of these are great ideas. But to me #1 is the biggest concern. Some older movies are SD only cause that is all there is, if at some point an HD version becomes available, we should get the HD version if we already bought the SD version, or offer the HD version minus the difference paid for the SD version. At the moment if you buy an SD movie and then later buy the HD version, you pay for it in full. For example, my sister-in-law bought Elf in SD for $10, she regrets buying in SD and would buy it in HD but its $14 and offers no discount for already owning the SD version, so she would end up paying $24 for it.

[FelipeF]

I am confused. My Vudu app works great on smart TV n Blu Ray player .. but but I cannot get thethe Vudu app for my fire stick which is what I watch 95% of the time. I just joined tonight I I don't know how toto get ahold of Vudu concerning movies anywhere when I connected it a whole bunch of my movies from Vudu did not go over 2 MA. Can you help at all? Thank you

Amazon Fire Sticks are not supported by Vudu.

[gamescan]

That's not completely true. The show was filmed in a completely different widescreen format, and cropped for 4:3 and 16:9 later.
Here's some examples:

http://i.imgur.com/KKiMbWP.png

http://i.imgur.com/JYEzbfv.gifv

Pay close attention to what's available in the widescreen shot that is NOT available in the 4:3 shot. A normal Widescreen crop would not have any extra detail.

It was shot flat in Super 35 with safe space around the edges, but was always composed for 4:3.

[RogerJ]

Agreed, agreed and agreed.

[tinkBMW]

I am confused. My Vudu app works great on smart TV n Blu Ray player .. but but I cannot get thethe Vudu app for my fire stick which is what I watch 95% of the time. I just joined tonight I I don't know how toto get ahold of Vudu concerning movies anywhere when I connected it a whole bunch of my movies from Vudu did not go over 2 MA. Can you help at all? Thank you

[Navigator]

A reeeally thorough explanation of the Seinfeld aspect ratios...
https://youtu.be/PFIrsitJW5M

I found and was about to link that same video before I saw you had already posted it. The examples it shows provide a pretty good reason to choose the 4:3 version over the 16:9 version, at least to me. Some people so badly want the image to fill the entire screen that they don't care that it results in poorly composed shots.

The only time I've liked the conversion from 4:3 to 16:9 is with the show The Wire, in which the original production team actually had a say so in the process and worked to retain their original vision in the conversion.

The worst example I've ever seen is with The Simpsons, and I'm still pretty unhappy that Vudu only has the horrible widescreen version in HD.

[boojitede]

I love watching Seinfeld in widescreen on Hulu

[thekich]

No one wants to pay for a cropped version of a classic TV show any more than they want to pay for a cropped P&S copy of a widescreen movie.

If Vudu provided this in a cropped version, they would likely get a LOT of refund requests.

I want a refund now lol. I'm sure everyone is tired of their square Sein DVDs after a decade of WS versions on TV. I like movies on like HBO HD where it fills the screen even though there's a little cropping and it doesn't bother me. On something like a sitcom, I'm even less likely to care. I just want it to fill the 50" I paid for.

And how bout some concerts VUDU, huh? Police Synchronicity, No Doubt Live in the Tragic Kingdom, Rush R30?

[RogerJ]

A reeeally thorough explanation of the Seinfeld aspect ratios...
https://youtu.be/PFIrsitJW5M

[robot_deodorant]

Seinfeld was filmed and broadcast in 4:3. No one wants to pay for a cropped version of a classic TV show any more than they want to pay for a cropped P&S copy of a widescreen movie.

If Vudu provided this in a cropped version, they would likely get a LOT of refund requests.

That's not completely true. The show was filmed in a completely different widescreen format, and cropped for 4:3 and 16:9 later.
Here's some examples:

http://i.imgur.com/KKiMbWP.png

http://i.imgur.com/JYEzbfv.gifv

Pay close attention to what's available in the widescreen shot that is NOT available in the 4:3 shot. A normal Widescreen crop would not have any extra detail.

[Jerry8169]

Seinfeld was filmed and broadcast in 4:3. No one wants to pay for a cropped version of a classic TV show any more than they want to pay for a cropped P&S copy of a widescreen movie.

If Vudu provided this in a cropped version, they would likely get a LOT of refund requests.

Exactly, there used to be a forum thread, probably still around, of people complaining about cropped movies. Most people want things in the OAR (original aspect ratio) so we can see what was originally filmed and presented to the audience.

[gamescan]

10. Why is Seinfeld a square picture? Would not have purchased if I knew this. Want it in Widescreen like on TBS.

Seinfeld was filmed and broadcast in 4:3. No one wants to pay for a cropped version of a classic TV show any more than they want to pay for a cropped P&S copy of a widescreen movie.

If Vudu provided this in a cropped version, they would likely get a LOT of refund requests.

[Jerry8169]

10. Why is Seinfeld a square picture? Would not have purchased if I knew this. Want it in Widescreen like on TBS.

If you understood what had to be done to make it "widescreen" you wouldn't want it that way. Since it was filmed back before everything was widescreen, it was filmed for 4:3 format tvs. To make it widescreen, you zoom in, and cut the top and bottom of the picture off to make it fit, then scan up and down as needed to try to keep the most important things in view. This is known as pan and scan and it was done the opposite direction for people who didn't understand why movies filmed in 16:9 to fit a theater screen wouldn't fit their square 4:3 tvs so they would zoom in and cut the sides off to make it fit the square, again moving left and right to try to keep the most important things on screen. Unfortunately, you're still losing picture from what was filmed either way.

[4kcinema]

I'm wondering why movies that I've watched stay in my watchlist even though I've watched them in their entirety. Best I can think of is that the system is keeping them in there based on the progress they were at when they were last paused. Very odd.