It makes sense they would limit it but I'm not sure what seems to be the problem with this to begin with.
You get 2 weeks when you rent the movie, when you start watching you have 24 hours to finish it. Seems totally fair to me. Who starts to watch a movie and watches it on and off?
I'm really excited where Vudu is going..
They are matching Blu-Ray quality, convenience, DD+ audio which is like Transformers quite capable of delivering master audio quality.
I have the more expensive version and I've been more and more pleasantly surprised with their service. They are totally delivering on the promises they made.
What's fantastic is that this past weekend, I had a chance to chat with Vudu's CEO at my local Magnolia (Best Buy).
He said a couple of things that got me really excited.
Number one is that they will update the firmware by end of this year to work with external content you connect through your USB plug on it or through network streaming. He didn't specifically mention what codecs they will support but he said it's coming which is huge because I have a huge library of Blu-Ray and HD DVD movies converted to my Home Media Server with several 1.5 Tb drives. To have access to them through Vudu is absolute blast.
Second thing completely blew my mind that he mentioned. Vudu, as he mentioned, is in negotiations with studios and movie theaters to bring Vudu customers opportunity to purchase tickets to movies in theaters or online as if they would go to the theater and in return they will get a code. They can use that code and punch it into Vudu system and watch current movie in the theater in HD glory on their system.
He mentioned that firmware for streaming and expandability for Vudu is coming by end of this year and live movie theater thing should be available sometime in 2009.
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It makes sense they would limit it but I'm not sure what seems to be the problem with this to begin with.
You get 2 weeks when you rent the movie, when you start watching you have 24 hours to finish it. Seems totally fair to me. Who starts to watch a movie and watches it on and off?
I'm really excited where Vudu is going..
They are matching Blu-Ray quality, convenience, DD+ audio which is like Transformers quite capable of delivering master audio quality.
I have the more expensive version and I've been more and more pleasantly surprised with their service. They are totally delivering on the promises they made.
What's fantastic is that this past weekend, I had a chance to chat with Vudu's CEO at my local Magnolia (Best Buy).
He said a couple of things that got me really excited.
Number one is that they will update the firmware by end of this year to work with external content you connect through your USB plug on it or through network streaming. He didn't specifically mention what codecs they will support but he said it's coming which is huge because I have a huge library of Blu-Ray and HD DVD movies converted to my Home Media Server with several 1.5 Tb drives. To have access to them through Vudu is absolute blast.
Second thing completely blew my mind that he mentioned. Vudu, as he mentioned, is in negotiations with studios and movie theaters to bring Vudu customers opportunity to purchase tickets to movies in theaters or online as if they would go to the theater and in return they will get a code. They can use that code and punch it into Vudu system and watch current movie in the theater in HD glory on their system.
He mentioned that firmware for streaming and expandability for Vudu is coming by end of this year and live movie theater thing should be available sometime in 2009.