Vudu offering HD downloads, say goodbye to HD DVD and Blu-ray

Nded

This is not correct. HD Movies on the Vudu are instant delivery/viewing if you have 3MB or faster internet service. Also, there are now over 100 HD titles in the Vudu rental catalog, and it continues to grow.

I'll agree that if you are part of the DVD Tuesday crowd that has been convinced they need to see the movie the same day it's released, then Vudu is not there yet. On the other hand, if you want faster service than the model posed by Netflix, Vudu is a very competitive alternative that you should at least give a chance (i.e. take advantage of the 30 day money back guarantee).

treker

What I ment was that if you want to buy the HD movie(if it not only is for rent but sale also)that the download will take close to 4 hours. My viewing of the Vudu HD movies is instant as our connection is 6/1

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Nded

That is out of date information from December '07. As of February '08, the HD movie viewing is now instant, and the download is at the same time - there is no delay anymore. Only Bourne Ultimatum purchase took 4 hours to download, and that was an intentional bandwidth throttle put on the download in December when HD was first released. What you are saying is no longer true, the Vudu has changed the download process to take advantage of faster internet connections. The challenge you would face today is that most of the 100+ HD titles are rental only. That is something that should change over time (many, many, many more HD titles, plus purchase options on them, in addition to rental).

The_Omega_Man

The real question is, is this good enough and priced right for J6P?

The second question is the distributed storage model that VUDU apparently uses. Will J6P be okay with others pulling movie content (Bandwidth!) from HIS VUDU unit??

http://www.wikiappletv.com/page/Apple+TV+Versus+Vudu

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While optical discs are selling like they are no studio in the world would let their property be sold digitally. Because of the physical product, there is more profit as they can warrant charging more. Thats why HD films are only avaliable for rental, you'll have to wait until the studios have exhausted the market (and your wallet) first.

edders

from California. The studios would rather just rent movies so they can charge each time a person views them, that has been the Holy Grail in Hwd for quite some time. It might be that if this business model works, we could see fewer titles released on HDM.