Studios Sign Up with Vudu

[J_UNTITLED]

From The Hollywood Reporter

"Vudu, a movie download set-top box, has partnered with Paramount, Universal and Lionsgate to deliver HD titles on a video-on-demand basis, the company said Thursday.

The Vudu box went on sale last month and has over 5,000 titles in standard definition. It has agreements with all the major studios and 22 other independent and international film distributors. The box connects to the Internet, content is delivered using peer-to-peer technology and requires no software downloads."

[Jim L]

So it is a threat more to the DVD format than to Blu-ray.

If DVD is being eroded by cable, satellite and these services then you think this would play against Toshiba's strategy to kill off HDM.

If the infrastucture were there, this could also become an HD download service in competition to M$.

[J_UNTITLED]

Originally Posted by Jim L

So it is a threat more to the DVD format than to Blu-ray.

If DVD is being eroded by cable, satellite and these services then you think this would play against Toshiba's strategy to kill off HDM.

If the infrastucture were there, this could also become an HD download service in competition to M$.

I think downloaded HD content will be just as much of a threat to Blu-ray (and HD-DVD) as anything else.

[lch]

it's more threat to hd-dvd, nobody will buy them since they can get from vod right ?

[oldmike]

downloads are a danger to all HDM they are the real evil that MS wants to take off

[ClaytonMG]

I'll never download movies. There's this feeling of opening a new package, and having it sit on display for others to see that downloaded media will never be able to replace (obviously).

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by Jim L

So it is a threat more to the DVD format than to Blu-ray..

And then, not even that:
Uh, this's that one whose "5000 pre-loaded movies" are actually pre-loaded trailers to movies you can order through PPV over an Ethernet line?
(And even then with that crappy half direct-video title selection you get from the Redbox vending machines?)

Someone obviously found the article from a while ago, but apart from the EXTREMELY download-gullible who leap on any technology from the press release description, this one just had too many Ghosts of DIVx, and interest lasted about a week.