frames per second) remain the same as Vudu’s HD format movies, but HDX films will be encoded using Vudu’s new TruFilm technology. TruFilm consists of four elements: “Psychovisual processing,” which Vudu maintains improves picture quality by enhancing...

Vudu Box Gets Fatter but Thinner. home theater Vudu movie download. Movie-download service Vudu introduced a third model in its hardware lineup: The Vudu XL2. The new box features a 1TB hard drive in a rack-mountable enclosure. . Movie-download service Vudu...

free. Vudu is running a similar promotion with Best Buy (crediting $200 of the box’s $299 cost to your rental account). Vudu will apparently still offer at least one advantage: Blockbuster says its movies will be “DVD quality;” Vudu offers at least some...

schemes. This kind of commitment to iTunes puts greater pressure on competing services, most notably Microsoft’s Xbox Marketplace, Amazon’s Unbox, the Vudu set-top box and the upcoming box from Blockbuster. A 30-day exclusivity windows had been the norm...

to get this opportunity right, this trend would be farther along if it wasn’t for the nasty nature of video rights and the historical problem of piracy. Even so, products like the Vudu box (which I started using last month) and Apple TV clearly demonstrate...

social networking sites (e.g., FaceBook and MySpace), and the peer-to-peer file-sharing client Limewire. BitTorrent, curiously enough, wasn’t mentioned at all. The trend doesn’t look good for online movie-download services such as Vudu, either. The market-research...