The number of televisions estimated that sit unused in closets.
The EPA estimates that nearly 100 million unused televisions are currently taking up precious, beautiful space. (source: EPA, July 2008)
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It's kind of cool, although all they are doing is taking the component video ouput and encoding it into an IP Video stream to be distributed by their video/audio client/server architecture. You can do the same thing with almost any high-end control system out there. For instance, you can control the Vudu from a Crestron processor and utilize Extron, a Crestron PVID, or AutoPatch Component Video Switcher to do the same thing without the additional step of converting to a packet stream.
Just an FYI, Vudu will activate the IP Control of the "vanilla" Vudu if you ask nicely. They may stop if alot of people ask for it, but I doubt alot of people will.