I recently purchased a DVD w/UV copy, and to redeem it, I need to go to sonypictures.com/uvredeem.  If I get a movie from say, Universal, am I going to have to use their Website to redeem and subsequently view it?

I wanted to have just one account somewhere on the Cloud, such as UVVU, where I could have all my UV copies, but is this possible, or is each studio doing their own thing?  For example, if I sign-up with Paramount, will I be able to redeem and/or view a movie that's from Sony?

^ Two years ago for Father's day, I said that I'd like to have "Fudgie the Whale," an ice cream cake Carvel used to advertise that time of year for dads.  Only thing is, she didn't remember it was from Carvel, and went to three (I think) Baskin Robbins to try to get it.  She couldn't figure why none of them had it.    She was such a great sport, we all had a laugh about it and the incident has found its way into family lore.

That doesn't sound right to me.  But I looked at my account and only saw Warner titles and Paramount titles.  Sadly, I've not really paid much attention to my UV account, but it seems like everything is there.  On the other hand, I don't honestly have a good idea of what "everything" actually is.  So there may be things missing that I don't realize should even be there.  I just enter the codes so I have them down the line in case I ever find a need for my digital copies.

In short, I suggest any questions about your UV account should probably be sent directly to them.  Clearly you're getting much in the way of useful help here.  Not surprising given that this site is pretty much all about physical media.  Digital media is catching on very, very, very sloooowly around here.

What a joke.

They try to set this stuff up to "offset" the users who turn to software that has been around for years (like SlySoft) which actually works for the consumer's benefit.

And they expect people to think this is better?

The individual studios who put out the video media (DVD, BluRay, etc) have you go through their respective proprietary websites in order to add UltraViolet digital copies to the UltraViolet storage cloud. The passcode you type in for a Sony movie to do this means absolutely nothing when considered in the context of Universal Studios... and vice versa.

By conducting the transaction in this manner, it accomplishes a few goals:

[li]It allows the respective studios to collect marketing information from you (and about you) as you're redeeming your digital copy
It allows UltraViolet (really just a consortium of studios who have agreed to support the UltraViolet approach to managing digital copies) to avail itself of any responsibility when it comes to preventing piracy of the digital copies
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It's my understanding that (most) Samsung BluRay SMART players manufactured in 2012 and beyond possess the ability to add your movies (when inserted into your player) to your UltraViolet collection.

An interesting limitation is that if your movie comes from a studio that is not a part of the UltraViolet consortium, then you will not be able to add that movie to your UltraViolet collection.

You can also go to Walmart and (for a nominal fee) provide them with your DVD or BluRay disc and they can upload it to your UltraViolet account. Again, the same limitations about this only working for studios that are a part of the UltraViolet consortium.

No you only need one Ultraviolet account, you can add movies through the studio website,through flixter, the sheet on the dvd will tell you where to redeem, and some of them you can also get a copy to use on windows media, or itunes.