Vudu on sale - $99 hardware (with $50 movie credit purchase)

railven

Again, I can only go from what I experience and know. Maybe things are different in Taxachusetts versus Florida, but what I listed is pretty much common across my friends and family.

2-3 Online Capable Consoles (PS3 or 360, and a Wii)
1xPC per adult/bedroom - not sure how to word this (none of my friends/family have just one PC unless there is only one person in that household)
Netflix subscription (again I was the last one I know to get one)

Again, that is the common thing I see. No one has an uber PC like I do or PC setup like mine, but when regarding the fields of interest my PC isn't as uber as it should be.

Sorry, I thought I took out the reference to yourself as average.

Nded

Yes, quite heavily, including a ton of classic catalog titles, and all of the latest and greatest releases (glad both of my kids are in college now).

I don't really want to spend the time looking up a specific title on Vudu's for its current status (1,400+ HD titles is a lot to dig through) for somebody that has made it clear he won't buy a Vudu under any circumstance, however, for the purpose of addressing an interesting point I offer the following observation and logical conclusion:

Contention: The lack of availability of a title in HD on Vudu and/or Blu-Ray is being described as a "drawback".

Fact: Blu-Ray has about 1000+ titles available.

Fact: Vudu has 1400+ HD titles available (with most of them also now available in HDX, but we don't count them twice)

Estimate: Based on what I've been able to dig up, there are about 900 duplicate titles available on both BR and Vudu HD/HDX.

You may find a venn diagram useful to visualize this information, allowing you to wrap your mind around the relative drawback that can be concluded from this.



While I may be off by a few on the overlap, whether it is larger or smaller, the relative drawback will always be much worse for BR than Vudu. Ergo, if you are a person that puts weight in the importance of this drawback, you will want to own a Vudu to overcome this.

This also clearly illustrates my long standing position that the person who owns both a BR player and a Vudu has the best HD entertainment options (about 50% more content than somebody with BR alone). I believe "Content is King" and the person with access to the most content is the real winner.

Lee Stewart

So where is WALL-E?

Did I miss it?

Can you please link ALL the movies in HD/HDX

Thanks

Nded

You can find out about Wall-E on Vudu at http://www.vudu.com/movies/Title/WALLE/

I would discourage you from actually watching this excuse for a movie. My 4 year old nephew dragged me to the theater to see it last summer (the last time I've been to a theater, and hopefully never again). The story is awful and I found the whole movie to be a waste of time.

That is not the easiest thing to come up with as the list changes daily. You can browse the HD/HDX title information on the website at http://www.vudu.com/movies/ but that is not always current with what is on the Vudu box itself. Coincidentally, earlier today I asked a friend who works at Vudu to get me a current HD/HDX text list, along with the "attach rate" for TDK on Vudu's I will gladly give you that information the moment I get my hands on it.

hatt

So you can buy Wall-E in SD on Jan 2 for $20 or you can buy it on DVD in superior quality with some extras for $15. That FAILS on so many levels I really don't know what to say. The BD is $25. VUDU = FUCKING STUPID, that is putting it nicely.

Lee Stewart

Maybe to you it is - because you are comparing own versus own.

I would not be interested in owning any of the movies - I would just want to see them once.

Comcast's HD PPV is lacking to say the least - in titles.

jadedeath

So, for $5 more {which you could factor into the price of the box} you get a Blu-Ray that you can watch whenever you want even if your box fails {you can buy another Blu-Ray player easily whereas VUDU might be out of business soon}

I'd never trust any downloading thing anyway, it's too hard to gift a movie to someone in that regard and get your money back if they a} don't want it, or b} already have it.

Logan

Nded

Alas, my ignore list grows again, as I really don't care to read posts from folks with vocabularies and educations so limited that they resort to profanity in a public discussion.

Lee Stewart

OK - guess you will pass on Vudu.

Different strokes for different folks.

Me personally - looks very interesting.

jadedeath

Unless you're trying to skew the prices in your favor {for nefarious purposes} why would you be comparing rent vs own?

Logan

hatt

It is still stupid on the renting front. How long has Wall-E been available to rent for cheap at Netflix or BB? You're going to wait a month or two and then pay $4(+?) to get it in download SD quality, not even DVD quality. Even you can see the nonsense here Lee.

Bravestime

I'm afraid you'll have to place half the members on ignore since we have used profanity sometime or the other.

jadedeath

It still looks interesting, but with me it's a physical media thing. I owned alot of DVD's I owned just about as many VHS, I will {hopefully soon} own a great deal of Blu-Ray.

Plus, I was brought up with the old school belief that you should never put all your eggs in one basket.

Logan

Bravestime

Remember Hatt, your paying for the convenience.

hatt

$5 more for the best quality and features available or $5 less for a superior DVD a month ago. I really can't figure why I'd op to wait on the download for $20, can anyone enlighten me on why I would do such a thing?