Hoping to easily convert your DVDs and Blu-Ray discs to digital copies? Wal-Mart and its Vudu mobile app have a solution for you.
As of March 23, the app will allow users to scan the barcode of movies they already own. Standard definition movies will cost $2 per copy, while high definition movies will cost $5 per copy.
However, in order to cut down fraud, there are two measures that will stop you from going wild scanning copies at your local Best Buy.
- You can only scan 100 movies per year, because Vudu believes that’s the size of the average movie collection.
- You can only scan movies when you are physically in your listed home address. So the only way you can download movies is if you bought them or your friend brings a movie over.
Those (completely understandable) rules aside, this is still a pretty awesome invention for non-millennials who still own actual DVDs but not a DVD player. Many laptops don’t even come with DVD drives these days, so if you don’t want to pony up for some extra equipment, DVDs are fairly unusable. That time is over.
[Variety]