Vudu to Add 1080p HD Movies WITH 4 hour download time

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Vudu to Add 1080p HD Movies The set-top service will debut the feature next week.

Since it only takes 4 hours to download the movie in 1080P, the picture quality is not going to be the high bit rate that one gets from 1080P BLU-RAY. VUDU will also not be offering 7.1 DTS-HD master audio or 7.1 PCM yet. Now if sometime in the future one can pay for a download that is 50GB worth of data and a fast download time then the quality would be exactly the same as BLU-RAY. The industry is not there yet. Technically in 5 years or so studios could offer the exact same 50GB BLU-RAY discs for download to a hard drive for video on demand. For now I am sticking with BLU-RAY for the best quality available.
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“DX displays content in the true cinematic gold standard of 1080p at 24 frames per second. Content in HDX is displayed at twice the resolution of other Internet HD formats and offers an ultra-detailed and virtually artifact free picture on any size screen. HDX also offers the best available surround sound quality for Internet delivered movies with immersive, high resolution sound at a 40 percent higher bit-rate than standard surround sound DVD's," Vudu's press release says today.”

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