UltraViolet Digital Copies

[Razor Ramon]

I wasn't too concerned about this until I realized I eventually want to buy a Blu-Ray player and ripping all those movies onto HDDs is going to cost me a lot in HDD buying and space-taking. Does anyone have any experience with the service?

I want something I can just buy, leave on some cloud, and watch wherever I am on whatever device I so choose. When I left for California earlier this year, I realized how many DVDs I purchased and had to throw away because I did not want to keep the clutter. I don't want to go through the same thing with Blu-Rays in another 10 years.

So, please, let me know what to expect and what's the best service if UltraViolet is not as good as it seems.

[Timber]

I've only used Amazon but they're fantastic. Not the greatest prices but I normally only buy stuff on sale. You can watch anything you've bought on any device with a Amazon Instant app by just logging in.

[Razor Ramon]

Does Amazon put their digital stuff on sale? And I see some of their movies are $14.99. Does that mean they're just standard definition or go up to HD?

[Timber]

They put digital stuff on sale constantly, it's just hard to track exactly what it all is at any given time. [url=http://www.amazon.com/Instant-Video/b/ref=topnav_storetab_mov_aiv?ie=UTF8&node=2858778011]Right now on this page you should see a $5 & under and $10 & under section.

There are prices for SD and HD and you have to pay close attention to which you're looking at. I just searched for The Avengers and it defaults to the SD price of $14.99 but if you click the blue bar up top that says "available in HD, etc..." it'll switch over to the HD version which is $19.99. Normally HD should be $5 more.

[Razor Ramon]

Gah! How annoying! That's so expensive, but I guess it's worth having them host it FOREVER AND EVER so I won't have to worry about physical media.

I hope they're better with this than they are with their music. You can only download music once. If you lose it after, you're boned.

[Timber]

Not true at all. I use their music store exclusively for my digital library. I have downloaded albums several times and sometimes on a friend's comp without a single problem. And now they also keep everything in the cloud and I can access it from my phone whenever I like.

[Razor Ramon]

Oh really? I remember about a year or two I bought an album through them and I had lost the hard drive I kept it on. I asked them if I could re-download and they said I had to purchase the album again. I pirated it and told them to suck my nuts.

I have Google Play house my music. It's just the easiest for me to keep around.

[ChaoofNee]

They stopped that. Everything you buy on their MP3 store gets shoved on your Amazon Cloud Drive.

[Josh]

Amazon instant is included in the cost of a prime membership.

[Bacon McShig]

Most major studios are on the Ultraviolet bandwagon, a pretty decent majority of blu-rays and many DVDs seem to come with an Ultraviolet copy as the standard now.

It's usually cheapest to wait out a sale for a physical copy with the UV copy than it is to just buy the UV copy directly. Doubly so if you just want to snag the code and resell the disc.