Walmart's Disc-to-Digital questions?

[Dave3000]

I currently own 14 BDs and ran out of shelf space, actually don't have enough shelf space for all my discs as I share the same shelf with my PC games and console games as well. I've been thinking about going to Walmart with my retail discs and having them converted to digital. If I have my discs converted to digital does that also mean that I can't resell my retail discs, in other word is it illegal to resell my retail discs once the movies are tied to my Vudu account? I understand that they stamp the center part of the disc during the process of converting to not allow that same disc to be converted again and I can imagine that I would have a hard time selling them to a movie store in that condition.

Last question; is there any difference in the end result between buying a movie directly through Vudu and having a retail disc converted by Walmart into my Vudu account?

 

[dclive]

Of course you can't resell your digital disks once you've made a copy of them. In order to legally sell them you'd need to destroy all of your copies, including your Vudu licenses to run/play them.

I agree with you - that mark would likely impact resale value to a dealer.

 

[kornphlake]

I'm probably a minority here, but I prefer having physical media for music or movies I own. If the only real issue is storage space, I'd opt for spending the money on a new bookshelf instead of spending money to convert movies you already own.

I don't know what it costs to have wal-mart add a movie to your vudu account (I doubt they're actually ripping the disc you own and uploading it to the vudu server) or what it cost to buy a movie directly on vudu without physical media, but there is software available that will let you do this at home and store the movies on your own media server. I'd rather pay for software and do the job myself and store the physical media in a box in the garage or at a friend's house instead of paying wal-mart.

 

[gar655]

All Walmart does is give Vudu a code showing you own the movie and then are able to stream it. HD costs more than SD of course.

One nice thing is is if you have DVDs you can "upgrade" them to HD through Vudu. And IME Vudu HDX is pretty darn close to blu-ray as far as the video. The audio is still DD 5.1 though. It sounds pretty good.