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Walmart’s Vudu Converts Your DVDs & Blu-Rays To Digital From Your Home

• devicenull 14y ago
  But once all that’s done, there’s the promise of being able to own your movie forevermore without ever having to buy it again. Forever, aka until Walmart decides the program is unprofitable and shuts down the DRM servers.
  • wmf 14y ago
    The UltraViolet registry is actually operated by Neustar and one would hope the multi-platform aspect would keep it around longer. But yeah, DRM is still DRM.
• freehunter 14y ago
  So theoretically, one could rent movies from Redbox, convert them to digital on Vudu, and for $3 ($1 from Redbox, $2 to Vudu) you could have a new release at a significant discount?
  • rikacomet 14y ago
    hmm, they might tweak the code to not let something like that happen. Basically you may get a "sorry we cannot convert this video" . which won't be a surprise since nobody said that Vudu works with all sites. It might take a bit hit on both side, people still have KeepVid for youtube/daily/meta and co, while you won't be able to sustain downloading from redbox and others.