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Disc to Digital: Blue Ray or DVD

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Teriyaki88

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Hi,

I'm thinking about buying more DVD's on Amazon Prime Day.
Some of the collections I'm looking at come in regular DVD versions and some in Blu-ray versions.
The plan is to catalog these via an Alto device.

My questions:
Does it cost more to convert from DVD to Digital or Blue-ray to Digital?
If I only have the DVD version, can I get 'Blueray' or higher quality from Kaleidescape? Is the cost to upgrade depend on my original content/DVD version?

Thank you in advance.
 
The cost to convert depends on the pricing offered by the particular movie. Generally speaking however if you have the Blu-ray version, the discount will be greater than the DVD version of the same movie. You will be presented with what ever qualities that are available (SD, HD, UHD) and a corresponding price (IE you could just buy a movie in SD/DVD quality for the lowest price). Some (newer?) movies have what they call 'Unified pricing' that offers one price only. See below for an example of converting a DVD where you can choose between different prices/quality:

catalog-dvd.jpg
 
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Yes it usually costs more to convert from DVD to Digital HD whereas converting from Blu-ray to Digital HD is usually less.

Having said that if you don’t care about picture quality the least expensive conversion is usually converting from DVD to Digital SD.
 
It used to be that in order to do d2d with DVD’s, the Store version would also need to have the SD version. I don’t know if that is still the case, but it is something to check on. There are studios on the Store,that do not have SD versions.

John

EdiT: Fixed typo.
 
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AlienWarlock said:
The cost to convert depends on the pricing offered by the particular movie. Generally speaking however if you have the Blu-ray version, the discount will be greater than the DVD version of the same movie. You will be presented with what ever qualities that are available (SD, HD, UHD) and a corresponding price (IE you could just buy a movie in SD/DVD quality for the lowest price). Some (newer?) movies have what they call 'Unified pricing' that offers one price only. See below for an example of converting a DVD where you can choose between different prices/quality:

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Cant say that I recognise that screen. I have loads of d2d offers but they just show the movie and the price. Can you explain which device/store and app/screen you are in to see those options please?

Thx
 
Oldred said:
Cant say that I recognise that screen. I have loads of d2d offers but they just show the movie and the price. Can you explain which device/store and app/screen you are in to see those options please?

Thx
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That screen shot is what it looks like on a Cinema One. Here is the same movie in my store account. If I choose Blu-ray quality or DVD quality, the price goes down and matches what is shown in my first screenshot.

d2d-store.jpg
 
AlienWarlock said:
The cost to convert depends on the pricing offered by the particular movie. Generally speaking however if you have the Blu-ray version, the discount will be greater than the DVD version of the same movie. You will be presented with what ever qualities that are available (SD, HD, UHD) and a corresponding price (IE you could just buy a movie in SD/DVD quality for the lowest price). Some (newer?) movies have what they call 'Unified pricing' that offers one price only. See below for an example of converting a DVD where you can choose between different prices/quality:

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That is very helpful! Thank you!
 
AlienWarlock said:
That screen shot is what it looks like on a Cinema One. Here is the same movie in my store account. If I choose Blu-ray quality or DVD quality, the price goes down and matches what is shown in my first screenshot.

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Ahhh thanks. That is what I recognise (I don't have a Cinema One, just a C player and terra servers and I had a loaner Vault to catalogue our disks but that's gone back.
 
Teriyaki88 said:
Does it cost more to convert from DVD to Digital or Blue-ray to Digital?
If I only have the DVD version, can I get 'Blueray' or higher quality from Kaleidescape? Is the cost to upgrade depend on my original content/DVD version?
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Definitely a YMMV issue, but there was a screenshot from Mike (I think in this section of the forum but could not quickly find the post) showing what my experience has been. I have found that straight conversions will, as often as not, cost more than D2D-upgrades (ie. $9 for BD>HD but $5 for BD>HDR.)
 
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