http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/vudus-streaming-service-demoed-live-on-an-lg-tv/ Engadget Comments for VUDU's streaming service demoed live on an LG TV http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/vudus-streaming-service-demoed-live-on-an-lg-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/vudus-streaming-service-demoed-live-on-an-lg-tv/Jul 30th 2009 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/vudus-streaming-service-demoed-live-on-an-lg-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/vudus-streaming-service-demoed-live-on-an-lg-tv/Jul 30th 2009 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/vudus-streaming-service-demoed-live-on-an-lg-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/vudus-streaming-service-demoed-live-on-an-lg-tv/Jul 30th 2009 12:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/vudus-streaming-service-demoed-live-on-an-lg-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/vudus-streaming-service-demoed-live-on-an-lg-tv/Jul 30th 2009 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/vudus-streaming-service-demoed-live-on-an-lg-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/vudus-streaming-service-demoed-live-on-an-lg-tv/Jul 30th 2009 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/vudus-streaming-service-demoed-live-on-an-lg-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/vudus-streaming-service-demoed-live-on-an-lg-tv/Jul 30th 2009 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/vudus-streaming-service-demoed-live-on-an-lg-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/vudus-streaming-service-demoed-live-on-an-lg-tv/
I am all for digital distribution...but how about full quality stuff...

oh wait...our broadband backbone would break!

-_-...guess ill stick with these crappy BluRays]]>Jul 30th 2009 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/vudus-streaming-service-demoed-live-on-an-lg-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/vudus-streaming-service-demoed-live-on-an-lg-tv/
Most 720 content will be almost indistinguishable from 1080 content when it's streamed. The best 1080 content currently is BluRay and Satelite. All other forms have to suffer tremendous compression.]]>Jul 30th 2009 11:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/vudus-streaming-service-demoed-live-on-an-lg-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/vudus-streaming-service-demoed-live-on-an-lg-tv/
3.99 for a hd rental? NICE!]]>Jul 30th 2009 12:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/vudus-streaming-service-demoed-live-on-an-lg-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/vudus-streaming-service-demoed-live-on-an-lg-tv/
1) I dont think the LG or Vizio display remotes have a scroll wheel so that means navigating with up, down, left right. It's not bad, but one of the best parts of VUDU was the simple and fast navigation with the rf scroll wheel remote.

2) HDX movies were able to play instantly. Previously this was not an option even if you had a 50mbps connection.

3) Instant playback may have been possible because they mention the quality was degraded for slower connections. This was never the case with VUDU before as the quality was always fixed and it would just download to the hard drive until enough had been downloaded to seamlessly playback the entire movie.

4) Chapter selection and graphical FFWD/REW. Chapters were never available on the traditional VUDU box.

These features show that VUDU is moving away from its most unique feature, the proprietary peer network. It now looks to be a completely streaming solution with possibly no internal hard drive, hence the need for dynamically adjusting PQ to the available bandwidth and the need for chapter skipping.]]>Jul 30th 2009 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/vudus-streaming-service-demoed-live-on-an-lg-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/vudus-streaming-service-demoed-live-on-an-lg-tv/Jul 30th 2009 4:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/vudus-streaming-service-demoed-live-on-an-lg-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/vudus-streaming-service-demoed-live-on-an-lg-tv/You can rent it in HD or HDX but you can only OWN it in SD?

I'm still waiting for a box where I can purchase in (full) HD and keep the copy for myself. Businesses come and go too quickly to trust that they can keep the actual movie and I'll be able to watch it any time I want. I guess Vudu would be best used for rentals. But that's what Netflix is for. So I'll keep on waiting.....]]>Jul 30th 2009 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/vudus-streaming-service-demoed-live-on-an-lg-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/vudus-streaming-service-demoed-live-on-an-lg-tv/
Let us buy or rent a movie online the same day it is is released on DVD/BluRay! And for that matter, let us watch new releases at HOME the day they hit the theater! Going to the movies is fun once in a while, but I would gladly pay $20 to watch a new release at home on my couch, as I'm sure millions of others would.]]>Jul 30th 2009 8:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/vudus-streaming-service-demoed-live-on-an-lg-tv/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/vudus-streaming-service-demoed-live-on-an-lg-tv/Jul 31st 2009 12:31PM