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Warner wants to convert your existing disc collection to UltraViolet
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article published on 10 March, 2012
Since its launch, the UltraViolet movie cloud locker service has seen its share of ups-and-downs, but it appears to now be receiving a large push from Warner Home Entertainment.
Kevin Tsujihara, president of Warner Home Entertainment Group, says the group will start a disc-to-digital program that will help drive adoption of UV, as well as bring traffic to the movie recommendation site Flixster.
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10. March 2012 @ 13:51 |
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And they still don't get it..
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10. March 2012 @ 14:03 |
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but getting closer
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Jeffrey_P
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10. March 2012 @ 14:57 |
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No thanks Warner. Take UV and shove it where the Sun doesn't shine.
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ivymike
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10. March 2012 @ 15:12 |
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HA HA HA HA HA, Warner, I want a lot of things too but that doesn't mean that I'm gonna get it....
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10. March 2012 @ 15:25 |
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@ivymike Just like a three-way, every guy wants one but most dont get them. lol
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10. March 2012 @ 15:36 |
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I see where this is going with Warner. They won't be happy until they own everybody and their videos with no optical disk.
Screw that. I'm pretty sure the vast majority of people like owning a physical disk to do what they with it. Figures iTunes would be involved but Walmart? I purchase Blu-Ray disks through Walmart. Older remastered movies go from $5.00 up. I just purchased Spinal Tap widescreen 5.1 yesterday for $8.00. Shpping is free if you pick it up from one of the stores.
You better believe the first thing I am going to do is back it up and use the copy to preserve the original.
Wonder how the MPAA and RIAA attempt at revisions of the DMCA is going?
Hope we sleepy Americans realize like with the defeat of SOPA and PITA that no new restrictions are needed. Enough is enough.
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ivymike
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10. March 2012 @ 15:42 |
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I don't buy CD's at Wal*Mart. Only because the S.O.B.'s censor the profanity out of the discs and they do so without a clear label stating that this disc has been edited.
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10. March 2012 @ 15:54 |
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Originally posted by ivymike:
I don't buy CD's at Wal*Mart. Only because the S.O.B.'s censor the profanity out of the discs and they do so without a clear label stating that this disc has been edited.
I know what you mean like Cee-Lo's song, "Fuck You". However there is other resources. I'm talking movies at this point.
Jeff
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10. March 2012 @ 16:09 |
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I have 4 movies on my phone from these guys (came with the physical copies BTW), and the only advantage that I see myself is they're available to stream and not on your phone taking space, but that's about it.
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10. March 2012 @ 17:18 |
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Originally posted by blueboy09:
I have 4 movies on my phone from these guys (came with the physical copies BTW), and the only advantage that I see myself is they're available to stream and not on your phone taking space, but that's about it.
I have my entire collection ripped on a Synology NAS...it is available to stream anywhere I have internet connection, with no DRM crap.
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10. March 2012 @ 18:53 |
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I would think if you bought a disk, to play in a player.
You probably did so not generally to be able to have a copy but to simply be able to play a file without having to stream it.
To stream a movie to your phone you will still need enough quota to cover that whole file so if harry potter was a 2 gig file then you'd need 2 gig to be able to stream it to your phone another 2 gig to be able to stream it to your TV, another 2 gig if you want to play it at any other time.
See how you could run out of data quota quickly
Also if you don't have a connection able to pump the data through quick enough it's all pointless as it won't work at all anyway, so you'd need to pirate or buy the disks again.
It's not thought out very well, but this is what you get when people think you can convert everything into a digital copy it doesn't work for every situation.
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10. March 2012 @ 19:00 |
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Originally posted by ivymike:
I don't buy CD's at Wal*Mart. Only because the S.O.B.'s censor the profanity out of the discs and they do so without a clear label stating that this disc has been edited.
That's another reason why I also quit using NetNuts. They too started shipping disks without the 'making of' material on the DVD. It's like 'they' turned around, did like we did, stripped the movie, put only the menu & the film on the DVD, printed a new top of the DVD & then shipped it out for viewing.
That's not what I rented! I rented a DVD! Not a movie. I expected a DVD experience & didn't get it, thus stopping the service.
Originally posted by Jeffrey_P:
"Give 'em the finga!"
Way ahead of you Jeff! I have both at full mast!
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ivymike
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10. March 2012 @ 19:34 |
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I wouldn't be surprised if Wal*Marx censored some DVD's also...
I don't have an electron microscope on hand to look for the fine print bullshit that says whether this CD has been altered or not.
If I fork over hard earned money to hear Eminem swear his ass off, then I damn well better hear some foul language on the damn disc I purchased and not some sound gaps or stupid bleeping sounds.
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10. March 2012 @ 20:15 |
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Remember, Walmart's HQ is in Bentonville, AR, the bible belt of the U.S. Its the right wing christian censors who drive this BS and force Walmart and other media producers to censor media. In the mean time these folks are hitting on their neighbors wife and viewing porno on the internet, hypocrites all!
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10. March 2012 @ 21:43 |
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Originally posted by ivymike:
I wouldn't be surprised if Wal*Marx censored some DVD's also...
I don't have an electron microscope on hand to look for the fine print bullshit that says whether this CD has been altered or not.
If I fork over hard earned money to hear Eminem swear his ass off, then I damn well better hear some foul language on the damn disc I purchased and not some sound gaps or stupid bleeping sounds.
Since clean and dirty versions are produced by the music so-called industry, it would be difficult to sell something that doesn't exist. I don't think Walmart has enough pull for a clean version of a DVD or Blu-Ray. Unless of course Walmart is willing to pay umpteen million dollars to make it Mormon clean.
Just ask Mitt to foot the bill, corprate raider lying POS.
Jeff
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10. March 2012 @ 21:47 |
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Originally posted by Semperfipal:
Remember, Walmart's HQ is in Bentonville, AR, the bible belt of the U.S. Its the right wing christian censors who drive this BS and force Walmart and other media producers to censor media. In the mean time these folks are hitting on their neighbors wife and viewing porno on the internet, hypocrites all!
Indeed.. People are very Holy until they get out of church, have a few drinks then beat their wife(s) and children as LDS fundamentalist polygamists do.
Churches should pay taxes just like the rest of us. The line should be drawn between separation of Church and state at the economic level. The Catholic Church makes ~ 1/2 trillion $ a year without paying $0.01 for taxes. My family are all Catholic but damn.. Pay up guys and gals.
The Bible belt is 200 years behind the times.
Jeff
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11. March 2012 @ 09:31 |
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Originally posted by Jeffrey_P:
Originally posted by Semperfipal:
Remember, Walmart's HQ is in Bentonville, AR, the bible belt of the U.S. Its the right wing christian censors who drive this BS and force Walmart and other media producers to censor media. In the mean time these folks are hitting on their neighbors wife and viewing porno on the internet, hypocrites all!
Indeed.. People are very Holy until they get out of church, have a few drinks then beat their wife(s) and children as LDS fundamentalist polygamists do.
Churches should pay taxes just like the rest of us. The line should be drawn between separation of Church and state at the economic level. The Catholic Church makes ~ 1/2 trillion $ a year without paying $0.01 for taxes. My family are all Catholic but damn.. Pay up guys and gals.
The Bible belt is 200 years behind the times.
Jeff
(Deity of choice here) knows I've grown up around enough beer drinking baptists to confirm all this! Except one little smidge of a fact... just 200 years? Maybe for the US sure, but on a global scheme...
I just watched Keven Smith's "Red State" last night. Talk about a horror film. Yeah, yeah, little off topic & a possible political statement, but kinda hints toward a possible, passable truth. Might/could apply here too.
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11. March 2012 @ 11:50 |
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Originally posted by LordRuss:
Originally posted by Jeffrey_P:
Originally posted by Semperfipal:
Remember, Walmart's HQ is in Bentonville, AR, the bible belt of the U.S. Its the right wing christian censors who drive this BS and force Walmart and other media producers to censor media. In the mean time these folks are hitting on their neighbors wife and viewing porno on the internet, hypocrites all!
Indeed.. People are very Holy until they get out of church, have a few drinks then beat their wife(s) and children as LDS fundamentalist polygamists do.
Churches should pay taxes just like the rest of us. The line should be drawn between separation of Church and state at the economic level. The Catholic Church makes ~ 1/2 trillion $ a year without paying $0.01 for taxes. My family are all Catholic but damn.. Pay up guys and gals.
The Bible belt is 200 years behind the times.
Jeff
(Deity of choice here) knows I've grown up around enough beer drinking baptists to confirm all this! Except one little smidge of a fact... just 200 years? Maybe for the US sure, but on a global scheme...
I just watched Keven Smith's "Red State" last night. Talk about a horror film. Yeah, yeah, little off topic & a possible political statement, but kinda hints toward a possible, passable truth. Might/could apply here too.
Sometimes I just ramble-on even though it may be off topic. Depends what mood I'm in.
I'll be 57 on Thursday the 15th (Ides of March)... OOoooo :0.
Maybe it's as my ex calls it, "Oldtimers."
I'm sure it's centuries for Europe. Americans have lived in the US just a few hundred years. My grandparents were Italian immigrants. The only true Americans are the native American Indians.
Jeff
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Originally posted by Jeffrey_P:
I'll be 57 on Thursday the 15th (Ides of March)... OOoooo :0.
Jeff
Kid's birthday is on the 16th, & you're 10 years 'my' senior, either way I'm getting older too. Happy birthday if it doesn't get around. And what's topical... Like an ointment.
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11. March 2012 @ 15:47 |
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Originally posted by LordRuss:
Originally posted by Jeffrey_P:
I'll be 57 on Thursday the 15th (Ides of March)... OOoooo :0.
Jeff
Kid's birthday is on the 16th, & you're 10 years 'my' senior, either way I'm getting older too. Happy birthday if it doesn't get around. And what's topical... Like an ointment.
Thank you.
My eldest daughter will be 30 5/4. My youngest is 27. Two + years apart.
Now, where is my scooter? j/k
Jeff
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11. March 2012 @ 16:30 |
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Originally posted by Jeffrey_P:
My eldest daughter will be 30 5/4. My youngest is 27. Two + years apart.
Now, where is my scooter? j/k
Jeff
Oldest is 21, 22 in Oct. On a cane now, be needing that chair before long myself.
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12. March 2012 @ 16:54 |
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Couple of questions:
Why do I have to have my disk "converted"? One would assume simply proving ownership should be enough to gain access to an already converted, HQ version.
Will they do like Apple did? Where they scan my PC and give me a streamable version of any media I already have?
Now THAT would be something.
Oh, Im sorry... Did the middle of my sentence interrupt the beginning of yours?
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Originally posted by ThePastor:
Will they do like Apple did? Where they scan my PC and give me a streamable version of any media I already have?
Now THAT would be something.
That plain gives me the heeby-jeebies, the corporates going through my stuff proving I did or didn't buy something. It's bad enough I have to put up with it on occasion at Walmart when the "You're an Asshole" alarm goes off when they didn't properly demagnetize an item.
But they don't shake-down my family & I, just the shopping bags. I just have a feeling the corporates will lovingly blaze through the entire computer & record the entire contents. Oh sure, they 'say' they won't report anything negative. As I'm sure the check is in the mail & all girls do this too.
That being the case... I'm with the band.
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12. March 2012 @ 17:26 |
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Originally posted by ThePastor:
Couple of questions:
Why do I have to have my disk "converted"? One would assume simply proving ownership should be enough to gain access to an already converted, HQ version.
Will they do like Apple did? Where they scan my PC and give me a streamable version of any media I already have?
Now THAT would be something.
I assume Warner will not convert any A/V. They just need proof of purchase to give you access to the UV version.
Indeed, if anybody has plans to turn in their optical disk, I would read the EULA front to back or hire a lawyer to translate the legalese into layman's terms.
It stinks and I would never go for it.
The industry will pawn you one way or another.
Jeff
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13. March 2012 @ 11:57 |
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Originally posted by Jeffrey_P:
The industry will pawn you one way or another.
Ding! Ding! Ding! What has he won Alex!
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