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This is good news indeed. After 20 million, a consumer product is no longer considered Niche and is in the adopter phase. That's where UV is heading now. This is a perfect ramp up of information prior to CES where there may be more announcements. I must say though that I will not be satisfied until UV CFF is released as promised...
 

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that is a rather obtuse perspective.the article says physical sales are seeing the start of a dwindling sales slope. In conjuction, UV is expanding with high marks from consumer satisfaction surveys. Things seem on track.To what article are you refering?Sent from my iPad using HTF
 

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nor do we know how many Izod shirts Target sold in October of 2013. Sales numbers are always closely guarded by retailers due to the ferocious fierce combat which occurs on the retail plane.Sent from my iPad using HTF
 

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20 million is great, but the rate of growth is needs to start increasing. It has been stagnant at 500k per month for 2 years. If we have 22 million accounts by CES, that will be a slight holiday increase. Also, we know it's not just people redeeming codes, The UV vendors together have 15% of the EST market. When Comcast joins, it will be 30%. If Amazon and Sony Entertainment and Microsoft join it will be close to 50%.
 

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I do know that the early release digital sales numbers are increasing and the studios are happy with them. I have an ever expanding number of UV titles, but all have been freebies that came with BDs.
 

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Where'd ya get that 15% figure from Josh? I think I've seen it referenced before but not backed up anywhere, citation appreciated. If your numbers add up then you are saying the iTunes store alone would have greater than 50% of the (admittedly small compared to Physical Disk) market still, is that right?
 

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"Nothing but good news"?...So, they didn't go about publicizing the bad news, then? Well, that's surprising. ;)
Joshua Clinard said:
Also, we know it's not just people redeeming codes, The UV vendors together have 15% of the EST market. When Comcast joins, it will be 30%. If Amazon and Sony Entertainment and Microsoft join it will be close to 50%.
Ah, but that's just it, you see--Didn't you read the headline?

UltraViolet Says It Will Continue To Grow, Even Without Disney And Amazon

(When a company starts bragging about how much they "don't need" the most currently popular competition, and can go it alone without merging, I sense a bit of defensiveness--How many of us "didn't need" the girl we broke up with, before leaving a dozen voicemails the next day?
If they're believing that Flixster, Target Ticket and CinemaNow will shoulder them to the top of the market, I don't want to be the one to disappoint them.)
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20 Million people have not paid for UV, 20 million people signed up for free accounts to register codes they got for buying Blurays...

Now that Disney incorporated their DMA-code titles, I've now got almost twenty movies in my Vudu library, and I've never paid a dime yet, outside of buying the original hard-disks.

(Oh, maybe a Vudu rental once in a while, but even whatever's on my Amazon library came from promotional credit-dollars here and there from choosing the No-rush shipping option. Think I've got enough now for another movie.)
 

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reading between the lines and critical thinking are all well and good, but it should be easy enough to back with published articles. Otherwise, it is just a siloed opinion. From the ones I have read, the trend DECE is on is very positive, as reflected in this article.Sent from my iPad using HTF
 

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Consumers who use it like it. It is expanding their global footprint. The growth is anticipated to continue or accelerate.Remind me again, where is the bad news in all of this?Sent from my iPad using HTF
 

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Ejanss said:
Now that Disney incorporated their DMA-code titles, I've now got almost twenty movies in my Vudu library, and I've never paid a dime yet, outside of buying the original hard-disks.
Case in point, I look forward every year to the online customer-feedback Warner A-List forum community being offered the annual Christmas thank-you present of a free Warner UV movie, out of a set list of seven or eight easily over-demographic'ed favorites--
Usually it's been a hospital-vs.-airline-food choice that's made it easy to pick, say, a 2D copy of Hobbit:AUJ over Dark Knight Rises or Hangover 2. This year, however, they decided to up it a notch and offer fans all seven of this year's options, with no choice.

Which will now make it very difficult for me to be able to share my VUDU Library with friends or family.
Because--while I don't mind having Gone With the Wind, Godzilla or Lego Movie in my collection--if anyone so much as asks me what Veronica Mars, 300: Rise of an Empire and Adam Sandler's Blended are doing there, I will be forced to hit them. :angry:
 
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Ejanss said:
Case in point, I look forward every year to the online customer-feedback Warner A-List forum community being offered the annual Christmas thank-you present of a free Warner UV movie, out of a set list of seven or eight easily over-demographic'ed favorites--Usually it's been a hospital-vs.-airline-food choice that's made it easy to pick, say, a 2D copy of Hobbit:AUJ over Dark Knight Rises or Hangover 2. This year, however, they decided to up it a notch and offer fans all seven of this year's options, with no choice. Which will now make it very difficult for me to be able to share my VUDU Library with friends or family.Because--while I don't mind having Gone With the Wind, Godzilla or Lego Movie in my collection--if anyone so much as asks me what Veronica Mars, 300: Rise of an Empire and Adam Sandler's Blended are doing there, I will be forced to hit them. :angry:
Just go to uvvu.com and delete them...
 

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Don't let the D2D bug bite. Your life takes a swift spiral down the tubes if it does where everything pales in comparison to raiding your local pawn shop for $0.25 DVDs to beef up your library numbers.It is a miserable existance. I speak from expirence. However, the lobotomizing clarity of 1080p playback of hundreds of titles takes away the pain for spells until the drive to add clicks to the counters again becomes all encompassing. Sent from my iPad using HTF
 

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Patrick Donahue said:
Just go to uvvu.com and delete them...
(looks up) Oh. Why, thank you. ^_^
There was no option on Vudu.com so I was stuck with that free "10-minute preview of Cowboys vs. Aliens" that I decided to Own instead of Rent, and I've been meaning to get rid of that digital graffiti ever since.

But if it helps Walt's point any, I suppose it's a helpful sign that the industry has now reached the saturation where once customers were unable to find titles they wanted, their online libraries are now able to access titles they DON'T want.
Don't let the D2D bug bite. Your life takes a swift spiral down the tubes if it does where everything pales in comparison to raiding your local pawn shop for $0.25 DVDs to beef up your library numbers.It is a miserable existance. I speak from expirence.
However, the lobotomizing clarity of 1080p playback of hundreds of titles takes away the pain for spells until the drive to add clicks to the counters again becomes all encompassing.
We know misery from the experience of your speaking--But we do observe the "lobotomized" effect on its victims you speak of, although we only have the immediate example to judge by. :P

But as to the dangers of rampant D2D addiction spreading like wildfire, claiming millions in its thrall, let us on the board quickly soothe all your fears about that, and let you get a good night's sleep. I'm one of the immune, if that helps in any small way, and am optimistic enough to believe I'm not alone.
 

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sadly, I fear you do not have a point of reference for the hopeless despair the malady causes.I remember thinking, as if in a past life, that once I got to the 200 mark, I would have all I need.Not even a speed bump slow down. I am now past the 1/2 a G mark and am still on a hopeless slide to see the digits increase.pls send help. I will be the one with dribble from my chin to my shirt watching the Lord of The Rings Extended Trilogy, in a sad state of being unable to blink or otherwise move.Sent from my iPad using HTF
 

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Walter-S_NC said:
pls send help. I will be the one with dribble from my chin to my shirt watching the Lord of The Rings Extended Trilogy, in a sad state of being unable to blink or otherwise move.
If you're suggesting that straitjackets, commitment and/or electroshock therapy may be necessary, we on HTF have heartily concurred for the last six months. :)
 

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from a streaming enthusiast, perhaps a scary story will alter your opnions.You spend $25 hard earned dollars on a new release BRD for your children to entertain themselves with while you get some domestic work done.You wake the next morning.You see the BRD left out, dog slobber on the carpet near it, and claw scratches arching rainbows of color onto the living room ceiling.Poof, your $25.00 investment has ended it's life cycle with your children again interruptting your ability to complete household matters.If you would have it stream, this nightmare could of been adverted. Dog claws are unable to effect redundant storage arrays which maintain media in pristine quality for perurpatutity. The national archives rates optical disc storage at 4 years, after which data loss is to be expected from reflectivity degregation.Sent from my iPad using HTF
 

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