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    #31
    Re: VoD Movie Hobby

    Originally posted by Ruinit View Post
    Yeah it is fun and a little expensive, for me anyways ... lol I now have over 1300 titles in my UV locker. I have some movies that aren't UV but I am totally against buying movies I already own that aren't UV unless they are a very nice deal like VUDU runs on occasion. Sub $10 HDX's if the movie is good I will buy it. I am waiting on MGM and my movie list will grow even larger. My family has varying taste in movies so it is quite easy to amass a large collection. I could easily have 2000 movies if they MGM and Disney joined UV and some of the hold outs from other studios were added. But frankly I prefer watching movies at home to going to the theater. Over priced, over crowded, noisy, uncomfortable, kids running around and crying yea my home is better!! lol
    Out of curiosity, how are you collating your list of needed titles? My wife and I have been going through Wikipedia's year in movies pages.

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      #32
      Re: VoD Movie Hobby

      Originally posted by goneviral View Post

      We own about 500 titles on Vudu right now, and I have noticed that loading the entire library takes a long time. I am not surprised to hear that 10k breaks the UVVU system as that site runs at a glacial pace. What I will note that is that Vudu is the gold standard in terms of providing the user with library flexibility. Even at 500 titles, I already have difficulty finding the right movie if I have to scroll by purchase order. Since your library is a factor of seven larger, the process must be aggravating for you. Do you usually just direct dial a film via the search bar? That's what we do on Amazon.
      I use the sorting features. Alphabetical by genre lets me find pretty much everything I want. And for new purchases, we sort by acquisition date.

      Up to 3900 titles now, and I'm pretty much out of things to redeem on D2D...until they add more movies. (I wish Disney would get on board. And MGM.)

      -- John

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        #33
        Re: VoD Movie Hobby

        I have 1395 in my account and UVVU.COM times out sometimes or takes forever. Also I could reload the same section in uvvu.com twice and get different results. I D2D my entire collection that was eligible including rated and unrated version and alternate cuts when available. I put them all in an excel sheet that is uploaded to drop box so I can remember what I have and sort easily. VUDU loads for me pretty quick. CinemaNow does not and Flixster hasn't updated with new movies for me since about 100 or so.

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          #34
          Re: VoD Movie Hobby

          Originally posted by Corinthos View Post
          I have 1395 in my account and UVVU.COM times out sometimes or takes forever. Also I could reload the same section in uvvu.com twice and get different results. I D2D my entire collection that was eligible including rated and unrated version and alternate cuts when available. I put them all in an excel sheet that is uploaded to drop box so I can remember what I have and sort easily. VUDU loads for me pretty quick. CinemaNow does not and Flixster hasn't updated with new movies for me since about 100 or so.
          I started to do an excel sheet but got too lazy for it. now i just place small color coded circular stickers on the spines of my titles. Green sticker represents titles I've done D2D. Purple stickers represent films that came with UV codes.

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            #35
            Re: VoD Movie Hobby

            It's great but I am being ultra-conservative with UV. I am very optimistic about the future and prefer UV, however I made the mistake of buying tons of DVDs, then was semi-liberal on BD but now more conservative. I am under 200 movies in total. I'm considering to buy a cheap BD drive so I can convert my 200 BD's but was hoping they would launch a PS3 app to D2D.

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              #36
              Re: VoD Movie Hobby

              I used the excel since I have an app on my phone that can read it. It also prevents me from accidentally buying something I own in store. I have two pawn shops near me that sell blurays for 3 dollars so it comes out to about 5 all together after I D2D them if I don't own them and want them. I just sit in the store with a pile of them looking them up to see if they eligible to convert before buying. Surprisingly even at almost 1400 I still find about 5 titles each visit.

              The excel sheet took me about 20 hours to complete over the course of two weeks but mainly I was watching a movie at the same time. Put year, title, rating, format (SD or HD, probably put 3D here if I get one), comments, and UV provider I purchased/redeemed from. Took me a while since I had to look up the year and rating on many since UVVU was incorrect on many. They list 1998 or 2005 as the year on many movies that came out way before then.

              Originally posted by swiss21 View Post
              I'm considering to buy a cheap BD drive so I can convert my 200 BD's but was hoping they would launch a PS3 app to D2D.
              It will come out of no where a week or two after you buy the drive.

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                #37
                Re: VoD Movie Hobby

                Originally posted by Corinthos View Post
                I used the excel since I have an app on my phone that can read it. It also prevents me from accidentally buying something I own in store. I have two pawn shops near me that sell blurays for 3 dollars so it comes out to about 5 all together after I D2D them if I don't own them and want them. I just sit in the store with a pile of them looking them up to see if they eligible to convert before buying. Surprisingly even at almost 1400 I still find about 5 titles each visit.

                The excel sheet took me about 20 hours to complete over the course of two weeks but mainly I was watching a movie at the same time. Put year, title, rating, format (SD or HD, probably put 3D here if I get one), comments, and UV provider I purchased/redeemed from. Took me a while since I had to look up the year and rating on many since UVVU was incorrect on many. They list 1998 or 2005 as the year on many movies that came out way before then.



                It will come out of no where a week or two after you buy the drive.

                Good job with the Bluray conversion. $5.00 ($3 @ store + $2 for UV conversion) is a low price to pay for a 1080p title.

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                  #38
                  Re: VoD Movie Hobby

                  ...I just did my bi-monthly trip to Walmart. Today's strike included;

                  1) Romeo & Juliet (1996)
                  2) Mr. & Mrs. Smith
                  3) Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas .....New to D2D this past week
                  4) Robots
                  5) Frida
                  6) Memoirs of a Geisha
                  7) Happily N'Ever After
                  8) Jeremiah Johnson .....New to D2D this past week
                  9) Sahara
                  10) Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life


                  OMG, This is so much Fun!!!!

                  Each of them were upgraded from DVD to 1080p HDX (Jeremiah Johnson was only SD available). I feel like I am getting away with highway robbery each time I make my trips!

                  This ten title trip was a big haul for me. Normally, I only do about three or four. However, this week officially put me into the tripple digit club, bringing my title total to 109.

                  I have about 50 left to do, so it will easily take me the rest of the year since I only go on my payday every two weeks.

                  This is a conditional estimate assuming Disney does not release. If so, it will take me two years.

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                    #39
                    Re: VoD Movie Hobby

                    Originally posted by FungManHin View Post
                    I started to do an excel sheet but got too lazy for it. now i just place small color coded circular stickers on the spines of my titles. Green sticker represents titles I've done D2D. Purple stickers represent films that came with UV codes.
                    I do the same. A little blue circular sticker goes on the spines of the titles I've done D2D for UltraViolet/VUDU, and a little green one goes on the Digital Copies I have in the iTunes cloud. This makes it easy as I look through my physical collection, to see which ones I might want to convert next.

                    I note that when I use the Flixster app (which has a beta of "D2D at Home" for DVDs) and I insert a disk for a title that's not eligible yet, there's a checkbox where I can be emailed when it *is* eligible, so I can know to try again. That's cool. When I try the same with the beta of VUDU's D2D@H app, it doesn't do that. It says "not eligible" and leaves it at that. (Or, it doesn't recognize the disk, and it asks me to tell them what it is -- so it can learn, I suppose.)

                    In any case, I'm enjoying the hobby too. I only have about 50 titles so far but I'm looking forward to adding more.

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                      #40
                      Re: VoD Movie Hobby

                      Originally posted by wildside View Post
                      Up to 3900 titles now
                      Wow.

                      I wonder, is that the largest library of anyone yet reported here? There should be a thread celebrating your achievement

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                        #41
                        Re: VoD Movie Hobby

                        Originally posted by goneviral View Post
                        I had this issue with Amazon Video. We apparently possess one of the largest TV libraries in their system. Their software lost the ability to load all of our titles for an extended period. I got the vibe from several phone conversations that they eventually had to update their software specifically for us. Amazon handled the entire situation wonderfully, though. They gave us a free TV for our trouble, and it was selling on their site for $1,100 at the time.
                        Yowza! That's awesome

                        Now I am curious, just how large is your Amazon Video TV library?

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                          #42
                          Re: VoD Movie Hobby

                          Originally posted by wildside View Post
                          I use the sorting features. Alphabetical by genre lets me find pretty much everything I want. And for new purchases, we sort by acquisition date.

                          Up to 3900 titles now, and I'm pretty much out of things to redeem on D2D...until they add more movies. (I wish Disney would get on board. And MGM.)

                          -- John
                          damn wildside can link me to your account

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                            #43
                            Re: VoD Movie Hobby

                            Damn I Luv THIS!!!

                            Added eight this morning with my friends at the photo counter. Oh, yeah. I am so, on-fire!
                            1. 21 Grams (2003) IMDB LINK
                            2. About Schmidt (2002) IMDB LINK
                            3. American Beauty (1999) IMDB LINK
                            4. Aviator (2004) IMDB LINK
                            5. City of Angels (1998) IMDB LINK
                            6. Hitch (2005) IMDB LINK
                            7. Lost in Translation (2003) IMDB LINK
                            8. The Nativity Story (2006) IMDB LINK




                            all eight went from DVD-->HDX.

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                              #44
                              Re: VoD Movie Hobby

                              Originally posted by Walter-S_North_Carolina View Post
                              Damn I Luv THIS!!!

                              Added eight this morning with my friends at the photo counter. Oh, yeah. I am so, on-fire!



                              all eight went from DVD-->HDX.
                              I am jealous that you still have titles to convert. I am just waiting for new titles to become D2D eligible. I have been buying other titles here and there. Mostly MGM or Touchstone movies that I want to watch. I would really like for MGM to come on board with their catalog titles.

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                                #45
                                Re: VoD Movie Hobby

                                Originally posted by woodrowjr View Post
                                I am jealous that you still have titles to convert. I am just waiting for new titles to become D2D eligible. I have been buying other titles here and there. Mostly MGM or Touchstone movies that I want to watch. I would really like for MGM to come on board with their catalog titles.

                                I am down to nine left. One more is currently SD only and I am going to hold onto it till it ups to HDX too.

                                I am ahead of my origional schedule. I thought it was going to take me through q4'13 and maybe into q1'14, but I am going to close out the outstanding D2D titles in about another month, I would suspect.

                                Then I will be in the same boat as you where I am waiting to snipe titles as they become available and also wait for the mother load from the master mouse.

                                That is just D2D.

                                As far as buying movies, I am an EST guy now. My physical collection is in boxes in my garage. It doesn't make sense to me to buy packaged media any more. Everything new has been from EST.

                                For instance, I am getting ready to EST purchase the below three using a $50 father's day gift from my mother;
                                1. Catwoman (2004) IMDB LINK
                                2. Sucker Punch (2011) IMDB LINK
                                3. Tomb Raider (2001) IMDB LINK


                                I wouldn't think of getting any of these in packaged media form just to then store them in the boxes in the garage. That wouldn't make sense. Even if I can save a dollar or two, it is easier to just EST purchase them.

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