LA Times says
Wal-Mart has unveiled an exclusive arrangement with five of Hollywood's top studios to convert DVD collections into digital copies.
Beginning April 16, consumers will be able to take their DVDs to about 3,500 Wal-Mart stores and have a digital copy stored in the cloud -- a storage system offering access from a broad array of Internet-connected devices -- for $2 each. Customers will have the option to upgrade standard DVDs to high-definition online copies for $5 each.
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Ya i think I'll be passing on this. I can make my own rips thank-you.
Don't like the idea. Personally I read this and though HD would be included in the deal or something of that nature, but 5 bucks? Come on, its still over priced for digital.
This still comes with the punishment of buying it legally anyways. You buy something digital at the high price, and what do you get in return? A company sitting there making sure its "legit," The inability to transfer it to any device you want due to stupid "security," and strict rules about what you can and can't do with it.
What do you get if you pirate or rip it yourself using the programs Hollywood sues on a daily basis? Freedom to do whatever the hell you want.
Do it yourself, PC users. It's not that hard. Just download free software, get a $20 DVD burner internal drive installed, and rip whatever DVDs-CDs you got to digital formats. Buy yourself a hefty 500GB-1TB for permanent storage, if you aren't using one.
What's this! walmart charging over something you can do
yourself. What else is new.
Hmm Xvid/Divx/mp4/h.264 VS the cloud
Having to put up with needing a network conection VS
stuffing as many video files as possible into memory.
I'll be riding the physical formats for as long as possible. Digital just isn't the same.