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Edit: See this thread for a lot of info:
https://slickdeals.net/f/9899132-vudu-app-disc-to-digital-program-dvd-sd-2-hdx-5-blu-ray-hdx-2-w-barcode-scan?p=97977120
TLDR: I used to do Napster. Now look at the music business! Support good art!
Edit: See this thread for a lot of info:
https://slickdeals.net/f/9899132-vudu-app-disc-to-digital-program-dvd-sd-2-hdx-5-blu-ray-hdx-2-w-barcode-scan?p=97977120
Scanning the UPC for the Blu-Ray Steelbook, Vudu would not accept it at all...ugh! Scanning the old DVD did work, but it was $5 for the HDX version.
Using the list from that forum post you linked to, I was able to find a working Blu-Ray UPC for Christmas Vacation and get HDX for $2. I don't condone abusing that list if people don't own the physical discs, but in this case it helped save me a few bucks since my Blu-Ray steelbook was inexplicably not accepted.
Thanks again.
TLDR: I used to do Napster. Now look at the music business! Support good art!
For me, the list helped me obtain the proper "conversion" that my Blu-Ray copy should have triggered (plus the fact that I also own a separate DVD copy). Just throwing out my 2 cents that not everyone referencing that list is pirating/gaming the system/"back door-ing".
TLDR: I used to do Napster. Now look at the music business! Support good art!
I completely understand what you're saying, but I do have to strongly disagree in regards to "you might as well pirate it".
Vudu and studios knew what they were doing when they made D2D available. There are probably millions of people who download movies and TV series for free every day, because they're not "crazy enough" to pay $15+ for a movie or a show. I was one of those people for 10-15 years, with the exception of a handful of albums I bought just to support those particular artists. Last year I lost my hard drive, which stored thousands of movies I'd downloaded over the years. Karma? Probably. Rather than starting over, I started collecting movies and shows in Vudu. Since middle of March of this year, I've spent well over $4,000 on around 1300 movies in my library, plus unknown (or, not added up yet) amount on over 2500 TV episodes. (Mind you, I didn't lose any of my TV shows when my hard drive crashed, I just stopped using Plex all together and started buying those same shows for Vudu). Most of those movies and shows were digital codes, a bunch were bought directly from Vudu or other providers, and a lot of them are D2D or MD2D.
As wrong as it is to MD2D a movie you don't own, it's simple math for those companies. Ultimately, they would rather get millions of dollars $2/$5 at a time, from people who have always just been pirating digital content, than get $0.