I\u2019ve already bought DVDs that included digital copies. This is the ability to also watch the movie from my tablet. However, only certain new DVDs come with this ability. What about my existing DVDs?<\/p>\n
Well, Vudu.com finally found a solution that the movie distributors are ok with \u2013 well some anyway. If you download Windows program from vudu.com, you can insert your DVD movie into your computer and it\u2019ll tell you if you can convert it to digital. It\u2019s actually not a conversion. It\u2019s more accurately a right to watch it digitally. That right costs $2\/movie. But, if you convert more than 10 at a time, it\u2019s only $1\/movie.<\/p>\n
So, I took about 60 DVDs and inserted them one at time to let it tell me if I could get the digital rights. About 20% of them it couldn\u2019t identify the movie title. And about 30% it could identify the movie title but said it was ineligible.<\/p>\n
The actual conversion is instant. These movies that qualified are already on Vudu. So, for $1, it gave me the right to watch them digitally from Vudu. Vudu has apps for tablets as well.<\/p>\n
Some notes. I wish it had the ability to eject the DVD from the app. I had to switch to Explorer and eject the DVD after each identification attempt.\u00a0 Twice it let me know that I already had digital rights, thus saving me the cost of \u201cconverting.\u201d That\u2019s a nice feature. And I can switch between viewing my purchased DVDs and the conversion procedure without losing my list of titles. Once I\u2019m done creating the list, I just hit purchase and it\u2019s instantly charged to my credit card. After that, access to the movies are instant as well.<\/p>\n
Other than not being able to convert all my DVDs (I couldn\u2019t convert Star Wars movies, but I could convert Harry Potter, classic and Matrix movies), it was a good experience. There is an option to upgrade to a higher resolution than standard DVD for $5\/movie (50% off also, if more than 10 are converted at once) \u2013 but I chose not to pay this higher fee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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