TheBigDave

Draft Day (plus Bonus Features) is the $4.99 Daily Deal.

kenbuzz

A couple of quick hits:

(1) Yesterday at WalMart, I found a rack of $4.97 Blu-Ray Chick Flicks (stuff like The Bodyguard and Ghost, etc). Each of them come with a $5.00 Vudu Credit sticker on the outside of the case. The promotion registers online as "WB - Valentine's Day 2015 TCAT DVD - $5.00 Movie Credit" and the codes all begin with "VLFT". They expire on 3/31/2015 (barely 2 months from now) and you can redeem up to five VFLT codes within the same Vudu account. The Vudu credit is greater than the cost of the movie, so if any of the movies interest you it's like getting them for free. The rack was an endcap facing the back of the store.

(2) At that same WalMart, I found the MGM Exclusive "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" in the $7.96 Blu-Ray dumping bin. Several copies. The movie redeemed via InstaWatch (HDX) and came with a redemption code inside the case for a 2nd digital copy. It's a Digital Double Dip.

hanshotfirst1138

No, which is another problem. There isn't any unified "streaming service," whereas discs come off of an assembly line. I'm sure that studios are only tolerating aftermarket sales of UV codes because they're trying to push more people to adopt. I have a paranoid feeling that once it's the major method of delivery, many of the advantages and financial benefits of it will diminish.

Alan Smithee

http://www.vudu.com/movies/#!content...mos-Experience

4 free Dolby Atmos trailers plus the "Silent" cartoon in 7.1 (or Atmos if you have it.)

TheBigDave

The Skeleton Twins (plus Bonus Features) is the $4.99 Daily Deal.

RichC2

A Most Wanted Man is today's $4.99 Daily Deal

http://www.vudu.com/movies/#!content/564877

Mr. Cinema

Duel is now available to purchase for $13.99.

bigjim25

I guess this could be a decent deal if you had credit to spend or could buy some of those credits. Around $6.67 a movie

Vudu - Dreamworks Animation 15 Film Collection $99.99
The Croods
How To Train Your Dragon
How To Train Your Dragon 2
Kung Fu Panda
Kung Fu Panda 2
Madagascar
Madagascar Escape 2 Africa
Madagascar 3 Europe's Most Wanted
Monsters vs Aliens
Puss In Boots
Shrek
Shrek 2
Shrek The Third
Shrek Forever After
Turbo

Alan Smithee

Found out the "bonus features" for the "Saw" movie set are free- just do a title search for "Saw: Bonus Features" and it should come right up.

Doing a search for "featurette" you can also watch a few extras for other movies that you would normally have to buy to get, but the one for "Saw" is a free purchase.

FiveO

Divergent is the special today and tomorrow: $3.99 in HDX. Ends Sunday (03-15-2015)

Thats the same as a rental....couldn't pass it up...even if it is a crappy movie. Going to watch it tonight.

Edit: Movie wasn't great but not bad either. I'll have to watch it again.

dfmaverick2

Season 1 of Mad Men is 4.99.

FiveO

Thanks! Bought it!

TheBigDave

In case anyone missed it in the HD Talk section:

Vudu has added the Star Wars movies. They should be available for purchase on April 10th.

http://www.vudu.com/movies/#uiPage/102

All of them (except for A New Hope) are Disney Movies Anywhere compatible. It looks like you can buy the movies individually, or in a bundle with all 6.

TheBigDave

Jane the Virgin: Season One is on sale for $19.99 (HDX)

Mikael79

#STARWARS TEXT what side of the #Force you are on: "LIGHT" or "DARK" to MYVUDU ( 698838 ) and get a $1.00 credit good for anything on #VUDU

TheBigDave

There are about 100+ catalog titles that have dropped their price down to $9.99 (HDX). Looks like it's all from 20th Century Fox.

I can't find the link on the Vudu website. But on the Roku, go to Deals and there's a banner at the bottom of the page.

Here's a partial list:

Castaway
Romeo & Juliet (DiCaprio/Danes)
Romancing the Stone
Jewel of the Nile
The Hustler (beware this is 1.33:1 pan-n-scan, OAR is 2.35:1)
Ravenous
The Newton Boys
Bulworth
Hoffa
X-Files: Fight the Future
Two Girls and a Guy
Anna and the King
Barton Fink
Down Periscope
The Fly (1958)
High Anxiety
Legend of Hell House
License to Drive
Lifeboat (Hitchcock)
The Man with One Red Shoe
Modern Problems
Quills
Shining Through

I think most of these are D2D eligible.

TheBigDave

Here's a link to the $9.99 HDX price drops:

http://www.vudu.com/movies/#featured/10481

Mr. Cinema

American Sniper, Selma, and Black Sea are all available as early digital exclusives.

American Sniper doesn't come out on BD until May 19.

Alan Smithee

The new DIVX...

RichC2

How so?

Yeah, it's normally 3 weeks digital before BD, odd that something as big as AS is otherwise, I guess it's one way to push the Walmart crowd to digital.

hanshotfirst1138

Given the sales of physical media right now, I doubt that they'll need much pushing.

Alan Smithee

Because they're intentionally crippling sell-thru media by releasing movies on digital first- same thing that happened with some movies on DIVX months before they were on standard DVD. I get that buying movies that way works for some people, but I simply refuse to and resent being "pushed" towards it like that.

hanshotfirst1138

Millions of other people have no such qualms.

EddieMoney

I appreciate a service like this with early digital releases.

RichC2

Yeah but the early digital releases appear to be actual early releases. Movies are still going from Theaters to Blu-ray in well under 6 months, American Sniper went wide on Jan 16th, is the top grossing movie of 2014 (I know that's weird) and is still out on Blu-ray in roughly 4 months time.

The digital release is an attempt to "Curb Piracy" which in turn just makes nicer copies available for the bootlegging masses, but at the prices they charge I don't believe it really makes that big of a difference in actual sell through, platforms like iTunes and Vudu are just getting newer movies on a time schedule similar to Hotels and Airplanes now, and at a premium.

Even the most staunch "GO DIGITAL!" fanboy has to balk at spending $20 for digital only copies that are often included for free with the blu-ray/retail release. I personally think they have it backwards and should re-initiate a 1 month "rental phase" for digital releases instead of selling them only.