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D2D Pricing Question

jarp81

jarp81

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Does anyone know if the Disc to Digital offers fluctuate in price? I have several digital offers to upgrade to HDR for $4.92, but didn’t know if the digital offer would remain at that price until I upgraded. Thanks
 
I've seen many go down in price to get to the $4.92 point, but can't say I've noticed many go up again once they get there. Perhaps I just buy most of them I want once I see them at the price point so I never see the increase.
 
Thanks for your reply. I think that I may also just go ahead and buy them, in case they do go up in price
 
I feel like I did see someone comment on here that a D2D price increased on some titles; a specific studio. But I can't remember what it was.
 
I appreciate the D2D program. After cataloging my collection (took weeks), there were many entries that are only in HD going for $3.14. I made a rule to only buy UHD versions. But if I were to buy the HD version for $3.14 and there's a UHD version in the future for $4.92, would I just have to pay the difference to convert? Anybody with experience or thoughts on this? Otherwise, I'll just wait until a UHD version is released.
 
alexbeans said:
I appreciate the D2D program. After cataloging my collection (took weeks), there were many entries that are only in HD going for $3.14. I made a rule to only buy UHD versions. But if I were to buy the HD version for $3.14 and there's a UHD version in the future for $4.92, would I just have to pay the difference to convert? Anybody with experience or thoughts on this? Otherwise, I'll just wait until a UHD version is released.
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You’d pay the full $4.92 for UHD regardless of if you had the HD version or not.
 
Rengozu said:
You’d pay the full $4.92 for UHD regardless of if you had the HD version or not.
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Thanks. This makes my decision easier and will help my wallet out a bit. I've easily converted over 100+ into UHD so far. At $4.92 it was a no-brainer even for movies that were so-so and may not rewatch. Like, will I ever watch Snow White and the Huntsman again? I kind of went crazy with the D2D program and all the Content sales.
There's very little hesitation in my part if I can convert my Blu-rays to UHD digital for $4.92; to buy UHD movies at $9.99 or under (each) through Content or Bundle Sales, or buy TV series (even HD) at $9.99 - $14.99.
I noticed K is having these sales very frequently and I am more happy for them for doing this.
Now with my growing collection, I just have to wait patiently for K to update their software UI for better organization. I'm sure it will come....
 
Well that really stinks. It looks like a bunch of studios have drastically increased D2D pricing. I had a bunch in queue that I was about to pull the trigger on. I typically buy the physical disc since they have all the special features and a digital code, then use D2D for K. This just means I will be purchasing much less through K. Very disappointing.
 
I haven’t noticed many studios increase outside of Warner Bros. Discovery… which doesn’t come as a shock. It’s almost as if the new CEO over there is making some really really bad decisions …. hah
 
Actually, it's everyone but Warner. I had D2D offers just this morning of $4.92 that are now showing as $13.42 (Sony) and $20.09 (Lionsgate and NBCUniversal).
 
Very disappointing if this stands. While I’d already gotten many of my favorites, there were many more I had planned on grabbing when I had more Terra space. Doubtful I’ll even consider some of them at the new prices.

Wonder if the recent ease of cataloging has made studios take notice?
 
David23 said:
Actually, it's everyone but Warner. I had D2D offers just this morning of $4.92 that are now showing as $13.42 (Sony) and $20.09 (Lionsgate and NBCUniversal).
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Hm…. are you in US? For example, Lord of the Rings went from $4.92 up to $21.15! It’s Warner Bros.

I already have the extended versions so I wasn’t planning to pick up the standard ones anyway but sorry to hear others are seeing more effected titles.
 
Actually, yes I do see some Warner titles that are showing $21.15 now. I have a big D2D list and had to dig through it more. That's insane pricing.
 
David23 said:
Actually, it's everyone but Warner. I had D2D offers just this morning of $4.92 that are now showing as $13.42 (Sony) and $20.09 (Lionsgate and NBCUniversal).
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I'm seeing the same thing, this happened a few weeks ago with the Sony D2D and they said it was an error and the price when back down after they fixed it. Hopefully it's another error, @MikeKobb can you check into this again?
 
tov5005 said:
Hm…. are you in US? For example, Lord of the Rings went from $4.92 up to $21.15! It’s Warner Bros.

I already have the extended versions so I wasn’t planning to pick up the standard ones anyway but sorry to hear others are seeing more effected titles.
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I'm seeing the same on the Lord of the Rings titles, but oddly the extended versions are $4.92 and the regular are $21.15. I prefer the extended versions. I've been holding out because of space on the Terra, but I think I'll just buy the extended editions and not download them yet before they raise the price.
 
Assuming this is not an error, D2D just isn't a perk anymore. $1.50 - $2.00 savings.........I mean why bother?

I don't know how much warning K gets on increases, but if you are going to have this large of studio wide increases, a price increase coming heads up would be nice. I'm also assuming the studios are setting the price and K isn't changing their margin.

Edit: The other thing is K just went to all the trouble of upgrading their software allowing folks to buy external disk players to catalog their disks. Increases the payback quite a bit on a $150 external drive at $2 a disk.
 
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Looking at my D2D page, I was fortunate that none of my formerly $4.92 (now much higher) upgrades were things I was interested in upgrading. Of the titles that are STILL $4.92, only Paramount seems to remain.
 
I don't understand why K would launch a software update that makes D2D easily available, then shortly after raise the prices on the D2D offers, It doesn't seem like a good business model if you want to get more customers buying into the K system.
 
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