rbbrittain

In Step 1, note that while creating a Vudu account it will ask you to sign up for (or sign into, if you have one) an UltraViolet account. (This should happen almost entirely within Vudu.) This is important because Vudu's D2D program is tied to UV, not Movies Anywhere. UV doesn't work with iTunes directly, but Vudu needs to be linked to UV as well as MA before you can use D2D to load your DVD & Blu-ray library into iTunes.

At present, only movies supported by Vudu D2D from one of the four studios (Fox, Sony, Universal & Warner Bros.) that support both MA & UV can be loaded into iTunes using D2D. Disney titles are not supported by D2D as Disney doesn't support UV. Titles from Paramount, Lionsgate, MGM and some independent studios may be eligible for D2D in Vudu, but won't go to iTunes as those studios don't support MA. (Most pre-1986 MGM & 1928-48 Paramount movies are now owned by eligible studios; those *will* go to iTunes.) D2D movies eligible for iTunes will have both MA & UV icons on their pages at the Vudu website; don't know about the iOS app as I don't have one, but the MA icon currently doesn't appear in Vudu's Android app (only the UV icon) so I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't appear in their iOS app either.

Another side benefit of this tip: If you already had a UV account from trying out a UV retailer -- not only the current ones (only Vudu, FandangoNow, a few studio sites, Verizon FiOS, and high-end movie server Kaleidescape are left), but even defunct ones (CinemaNow, Flixster Video, Nook Video, Target Ticket) as long as they were connected to UV before they shut down (most of those were) -- then linking your old UV account to Vudu, along with linking both Vudu & iTunes to MA, will load your UV titles supported by both Vudu & MA into iTunes for free. UV & MA won't talk to each other directly, but they will connect thru Vudu: UV -> Vudu -> MA -> iTunes, and vice versa. (Note that Verizon FiOS supports UV and did support DMA, but does *not* support MA.)