May 31, 2012

My Experience with Vudu Disc to Digital

So, I've been reading up on Disc to Digital, and I thought to myself, "How awesome would it be to be able to watch my movies from anywhere?" It would be pretty awesome. So, I decided to give this a try with my typical new format process. Get the ninja turtle movies in the new format. I do this every time, so I continued with it.

I took my 3 ninja turtle movies to Walmart after making my conversion list. They had to look me up, but they couldn't find me in the system. That was a pain. I went home, emailed Vudu, and they said since I'm an existing customer they should look me up via account (email) only and no by my number. The next day I went back and did just that. I got my ninja turtle movies on Vudu.

How does it look? Pretty good actually. HDX is pretty good. After this experience, I was going to convert all my movies to Vudu... but then I thought about it. Why not just put these movies on my media server and access them from anywhere? Saves me a couple of bucks since I already own the movies.

So, I've decided to start using DVD Copy and Handbrake to convert my DVDs to MP4 on my media server keeping the same quality (both video and sound). I'm still in the process, but I'll let you know how to do this in the next post.

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