FANDANGONOW to VUDU - NEW ACCOUNTS AND MERGING EXISTING (Some Questions)

[Blotchy777]

I’m having issues with the process. I opened the original email from FandangoNow “Move your account now to view your account info”. I clicked the “Start Now” link which brought up a web page with a link to verify email. Once I click the link it asks me to enter my email to send a verification email. Once that arrived I clicked the “verify” link which brought another web page saying “
Your Link Expired We’ll need to resend an email to you with a new link.” I’ve tried it several times and each time it comes back link expired. I’ve sent two emails now to Vudu to find out what’s going on. We’ll see what they say. I have a lot of movies that were digital copies of Blu-ray’s I bought. Most of which came from Flixter before Fandango took that over.

[jeremymc7]

Looks like some movies are still being transferred or other issues fixed. My movie count went up again today from the count post merger yesterday.

[JackDaniels1171]

I followed all steps in the merger emails and now I can no longer log in into Vudu using my Walmart.com Log in.

[SkepticHydra]

Purchased Showgirls on FandangoNow, looks like it didn't carry over to my Vudu account. Is there a work-around?

[bbqBiker]

Criminy. I had 1047 movies in Vudu this morning. Merged libraries and now I only have 1043. (Should have added 3 individual movies and 2x Studio Ghibli collections of 6 movies each...so 15 more movies or 5 if sets still only count for one.) How the heck would my movie count go down? How the heck am I going to audit what exactly happened? (I have a master Excel spreadsheet, but it will take forever to go line-by-line!) Suggestions...anyone?

[jeremymc7]

Might not be available in UHD. I’ve got a few Universal titles that state UHD rights but UHD streams by not yet available. This goes back prior to merger.

[MaskedMan]

My total of Vudu movies went from 875 to 879. Nothing new showed up at the top of the list. Before the merger I owned the uhd of the original 1974 "Gone in 60 seconds" on FN. But only in sd on vudu. After it says I own it in uhd but plays in hdx?

[RBBrittain]

Sadly yeah. IMAX enhanced wasn’t listed in all the advantages of this merger. Given that Sony Master Series OLED has an IMAX enhanced mode it’s a truly sad day.

Though IMAX tried to sell IMAX Enhanced as a special kind of HDR or other format, I'm not sure it was ever anything more than a certification program for ordinary HDR10 or possibly HDR10+, possibly with full-screen IMAX sequences. I also know that IMAX Enhanced discs were supposed to come with DTS:X audio, but I doubt that carried over to FN; while Vudu uses lossy DD+ Atmos (lossless surround sound codecs require too much bandwidth for streaming), I don't recall DTS:X being offered on any codec except lossless DTS-HD Master Audio.

[jeremymc7]

Sadly yeah. IMAX enhanced wasn’t listed in all the advantages of this merger. Given that Sony Master Series OLED has an IMAX enhanced mode it’s a truly sad day.

[RBBrittain]

I’m wondering what will happen with iMAX enhanced titles such as Spider-Man Far From Home? The FandangoNow app on my Sony TV plays parts of that movie in 1.77 resolution (full screen). In the Vudu app the whole movie is 1.85:1 (black bars at top and bottom).

My current Vudu listing of Far From Home still shows the usual "4K, HDR10, Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos"; no mention of IMAX Enhanced. Not 100% certain, but for now it seems that specific FN perk died with FN.

[RBBrittain]

I successfully merged Fandango and VUDU accounts together. I checked some movies and noticed that most Sharknado movies are now UHD that was not available for purchases on VUDU. The Last Sharknado (Sharknado 6) still is in HD because I purchased HD (UHD purchase was not available on Fandango). I need to upgrade to UHD format so that all Sharknado movies are in UHD format.

Looks like UHD isn't available for The Last Sharknado on Vudu either. (I wouldn't have even the original Sharknado except it was free at the time, but to each his own.)

[RBBrittain]

I started almost 12 hours ago and still have not received confirmation email of completion. Nor have I seen any of my FN only titles transferred over to Vudu yet.

I was able to transfer my FN into Vudu but they all transferred at lower amounts then FN confirms is on then.

I finally got my "confirmation" email, except it was another "click link to complete" button -- but by that time my initial confirmation expired and I had to request a new confirmation. Took its time arriving in my email, too. But after I reconfirmed my email, it took less than a minute to complete the transfer.

AFAIK I didn't have anything at FN that wasn't MA (or UV back in the day) except the original Sharknado (2013) which was a freebie during Shark Week a year or two back; it came over to Vudu as UHD, as did all four Hunger Games films (I upgraded them to UHD for cheap at FN before remembering they were non-MA & UV was no more). Also, On the Waterfront (1954) was previously UHD at MA & FN, but it was only HDX at Vudu; now it's UHD here as well. Also, Million Dollar Duck (1971) upgraded from SD to HDX. However, The Broadway Melody (1929) & Running on Empty (1988), both in HD at MA from other retailers (not originally from FN though they might have been HD at FN), are still SD at Vudu.

[Sword7]

I successfully merged Fandango and VUDU accounts together. I checked some movies and noticed that most Sharknado movies are now UHD that was not available for purchases on VUDU. The Last Sharknado (Sharknado 6) still is in HD because I purchased HD (UHD purchase was not available on Fandango). I need to upgrade to UHD format so that all Sharknado movies are in UHD format.

[jeremymc7]

After about a dozen hours it finally finished. Something like 9 movies were added. I had almost nothing in FN that wasn’t MA.

[Alan Gordon]

mine seemed to transfer successfully. Though I only had 8 titles on Fandango that were either not available before on Vudu or were in a higher resolution on fandangonow.

The merge is a multi-step process:
You need to start the merge
wait for the confirmation email that your account is ready
once account is ready, then finish the merge.

Mine was done over the course of about 4 hours.

I went to the FandangoNOW merge link. Clicked on "Or, Verify Account with Password"

Signed in with my FandangoNow account. It then asked me my VUDU account's info. I signed in with that, and then it started the merge. It took about 2-3 minutes, and I was good to go.

It took me from 1499 (Movies) to 1507 (Movies), and 1339 (TV) to 1352 (TV).