Vudu and D2D has drastically altered the way I pay for, and watch movies. Here is my story.
I joined the Navy in 2006. At that time I owned about 200 DVD's, all of which I had to leave at home. When you live on a ship, there isn't much room for personal belongings. If you want to bring your movie collection with you, the most efficient way to do that is to bring a laptop and a portable hard drive with your movies. When I discovered this, I began to use bit torrent to download movies, so I that could bring them with me. At that time I stopped buying DVD's period. Over time I acquired about 300 movies, replacing most of the ones I had on DVD, and a whole lot more. But I knew many people who had hard drives with 3 times that many movies. I did feel a little bit guilty, but not too much, because I didn't know of a way to legally bring my collection with me, without buying them again on iTunes, and I sure wasn't going to do that, when I already owned most of the movies on DVD.
After I was discharged, I went back home and looked for my old DVD's. About 50 of them were missing. I knew that my parents had rented out my room to a college kid while I was away. He didn't take all of them, that would have been too obvious to my brother's, who still lived in the house, But he got a lot of the more valuable Disney ones. I was upset of course, because that was a lot of money to me, and insurance didn't cover it. But at least I had the hard drive. But then I heard about the Disc to Digital program, and vudu. As soon as it launched, I began to take the DVD's I had left to Wal-Mart to get them converted. Most of them I upgraded to HDX. I loved the convenience of being able to watch my movies anywhere, on any device. And I wouldn't have to worry about theft anymore. But you know all the advantages of D2D. Movies that I didn't have on DVD, such as the ones that got stolen, and newer movies that I hadn't yet purchased, I got used on half.com, and then upgraded them as well. In a few months I had built up a collection of 200 movies on vudu. Then I erased all the movies I had on my hard drive, except for about 30 Disney movies. Some of those were the ones that got stolen, so I didn't feel too bad. Now I have over 400 movies.
But there are still hundreds of movies that I would like to own that are not available for D2D conversion, or for sale on vudu at all. I think consumers are tired of buying the same movies over and over! Maybe we already bought them on VHS, DVD, and Blu-ray. For people like me, if a film is not easily available, downloading them is so much more convenient. When the studio's don't give people options to buy the film legally, they will take the easy route. So I think Disney and MGM are losing a lot of money to piracy due to their refusal to join the UV program. Wake up!
I joined the Navy in 2006. At that time I owned about 200 DVD's, all of which I had to leave at home. When you live on a ship, there isn't much room for personal belongings. If you want to bring your movie collection with you, the most efficient way to do that is to bring a laptop and a portable hard drive with your movies. When I discovered this, I began to use bit torrent to download movies, so I that could bring them with me. At that time I stopped buying DVD's period. Over time I acquired about 300 movies, replacing most of the ones I had on DVD, and a whole lot more. But I knew many people who had hard drives with 3 times that many movies. I did feel a little bit guilty, but not too much, because I didn't know of a way to legally bring my collection with me, without buying them again on iTunes, and I sure wasn't going to do that, when I already owned most of the movies on DVD.
After I was discharged, I went back home and looked for my old DVD's. About 50 of them were missing. I knew that my parents had rented out my room to a college kid while I was away. He didn't take all of them, that would have been too obvious to my brother's, who still lived in the house, But he got a lot of the more valuable Disney ones. I was upset of course, because that was a lot of money to me, and insurance didn't cover it. But at least I had the hard drive. But then I heard about the Disc to Digital program, and vudu. As soon as it launched, I began to take the DVD's I had left to Wal-Mart to get them converted. Most of them I upgraded to HDX. I loved the convenience of being able to watch my movies anywhere, on any device. And I wouldn't have to worry about theft anymore. But you know all the advantages of D2D. Movies that I didn't have on DVD, such as the ones that got stolen, and newer movies that I hadn't yet purchased, I got used on half.com, and then upgraded them as well. In a few months I had built up a collection of 200 movies on vudu. Then I erased all the movies I had on my hard drive, except for about 30 Disney movies. Some of those were the ones that got stolen, so I didn't feel too bad. Now I have over 400 movies.
But there are still hundreds of movies that I would like to own that are not available for D2D conversion, or for sale on vudu at all. I think consumers are tired of buying the same movies over and over! Maybe we already bought them on VHS, DVD, and Blu-ray. For people like me, if a film is not easily available, downloading them is so much more convenient. When the studio's don't give people options to buy the film legally, they will take the easy route. So I think Disney and MGM are losing a lot of money to piracy due to their refusal to join the UV program. Wake up!
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