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Is the movie industry’s latest attempt to answer the burning question: How can we make money selling movies, without losing all of our profits to pirated copies or ceding all control to Apple? I gave UltraViolet a spin over the past two weeks—via two movies that I purchased (the Blu-ray version of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 and a DVD of Crazy Stupid Love). While I see advantages to its approach, I still give the technology a thumbs down overall. UltraViolet will improve over time, but I doubt it will improve enough to change my overall assessment.
Buy Ultraviolet Movies
For now, it remains too complicated, cumbersome, and buggy. In brief, UltraViolet works like this: Purchase a qualifying movie, most likely a DVD or Blu-ray disc, although it could be a digital copy. With luck, you can then play it anywhere—on your television, on your computer, on your iOS devices—all without having to make any additional purchases or sync across devices. If your initial purchase was a digital copy, you may even be able to get a free DVD mailed to you (although this is ). Although UltraViolet-supported files are copy-protected, UltraViolet is not precisely a new form of digital rights management. Rather, it is a means of cutting across existing forms of copy protection to give users unified access, allowing them to play their media in any supported environment. In theory, Apple could modify iTunes so that you could play UltraViolet movies from within the app (but I don’t expect this to happen).
Ultraviolet Disc To Digital
So far, this sounds pretty good. I especially welcome the concept of “pay once, watch anywhere.” Unfortunately, this is yet another case of the devil showing up in the details. Let’s take a closer look. If you start with physical media (as I did), and assuming your disc purchase has the “Instant Streaming with UltraViolet Digital Copy” sticker on it, your first step is to locate the UltraViolet redemption code inside the box. You now go to the site listed and enter the redemption code.
For example, for Crazy Stupid Love, you would go to From here, if this is your first visit, you will be directed to set up two separate accounts: a Flixster account and an UltraViolet account, each with their own username and password. The UltraViolet account is what permits access to the movie; Flixster is a delivery mechanism. Ultimately, you’ll be able to choose other methods of delivery. For now, it is pretty much just Flixster.