Wow, what a stressful evening!

It could have been so much worse. I am going to sleep well tonight.

Gah, crypto. We see a couple of people a week who discover their files for our program have nasty ransom notes in the data folders.

I'm rarely tempted by a phone, but this Moto G looks interesting.

Calling back to this, Gudanov (and anybody else looking for a cheap phone); my brand new Moto X went through a tragic fall that broke it in a weird (and not covered under warranty) way, so I actually sold it for $75 on swappa.com and bought the Amazon Prime version of the Moto G4. Paid $125 plus tax after the $25 Prime credit.

So far, it is AMAZING for that price. Heck, it's amazing for the full price of $200, but for $125 it's astonishing. Absolutely wonderful.

The Amazon ads are very non-obtrusive, though the fact that all of the Amazon apps come pre-installed (and nonremovable) is a little annoying, especially ones I don't use (I don't need Alexa app, I don't have an echo! I don't need Amazon Music, I have a google play music subscription!) Still, that has also provided an advantage in that the Amazon Appstore (which I use often, as many apps are cheaper there, especially kids apps) is more thoroughly integrated on the phone, making apps install more quickly and easily from there than before.

Now that I have an Xbox One, I got a handful of Blu-Ray Discs (on sale!) that came with digital download. Ultra-Violet. But it looks like they are only accessible via various portals (Vudu, Flixster, etc). I was hoping it was just a file that I could put on my media server. Am I missing something? Is there a way to add the files so I can load them in to iTunes as well as watch on my Xbox?

Ultra-Violet is junk in my experience. You can't locally store the files, so when that service eventually dies, so do your digital copies.

That's what I have been discovering. Glad to see I didn't miss something.

Reading into the details more, it looks like you get rights to the movie, as time goes by, the rights change, and you may have to pay to access it?!? And then one of the movies, "Gravity", one you really want to see in HD, is only available in SD. What the? Not a good alternative.

BR drive is on its way. Got it on sale. Will rip the BRD instead of UV.

Humbug.

I have used UV with Vudu and like it fine, Vudu being one of the better digital movie sites in my experience. I bet you can get Vudu on the Xbox; it is almost everywhere. You can use the Vudu app on phones,tablets,and PCs to cache the files locally but they are still locked down: that's pretty much par for the course these days unfortunately. I do recommend keeping/ripping the blu ray if that's your comfort place, but for casual netflix-style streaming of movies you have purchased, Vudu works just fine.

Obviously video/audio quality is generally inferior, but convenience bests quality for me usually and my TV/sound system aren't that great anyway.

Yup, Vudu app for the xbox. One of the titles has a flixster code, so Vudu doesn't see it, even though UV does. The biggest complaint is, now my library has half dozen items in a completely different location. Meh.

Should I be taking the free upgrade for Windows 10?