VUDU now home to 1,100 HD titles: "largest HD library in existence"

We realized that VUDU was on some sort of mission with its ferocious adding of high-def titles last month, and now we know what the company was up to. Indeed, it was adding around 150 HD titles per week in October in order to pump out this glowing release. As of today, there are over 1,100 HD titles available to VUDU users for instant, on-demand viewing, or as VUDU would say, "the largest library of HD content in existence." Thankfully, the company isn't planning to just rest on its laurels, as it's fully expecting to maintain its "leadership" position with continued HD rollouts in the near future. Funny how we were all questioning VUDU's viability just a few months back, huh?

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 10th 2008 10:34AM]

Amazingly I just picked up the Vudu unit and wireless kit for it. It's very nice. The quality even with regular HD titles (not HDX) is pretty damn good even better then Xbox one and HDX is pretty much the same as Blu-Ray. I don't really see any difference.

I had the pleasure to talk to the Vudu representative and he just told me that they are getting ready to kick butt with new updates, adding additional network features and bonus content and allowing ALL purchases to be redownloaded so you don't have any fear that you will lose your money/movies you bought through them.

Exciting really. I'm really enjoying it and it makes me very happy that their catalog is massive. I think I'll use Netflix/Xbox combo only for specific things but Vudu is my main movie watching machine these days for rental.

Try it, it will definitely make you think twice about downloads.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 10th 2008 10:53AM]

Is it a subscription based rental or per title? I don't see the value of a per title rental if I can Netflix BDs AND watch certain movies streamed with a fixed monthly cost.

I will say that DL's are starting to look a lot more promising than I previously thought for rentals, but for now, I'm sticking with Netflix for rentals and BD for movies I want to own.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 10th 2008 11:13PM]

What I like about this box is that for every Iron Man and Speed Racer (and they're ok movies), they also have a very cool list of classic films. THX 1138 looks very good in HDX. They have old Sam Peckinpah movies (Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia) in HD. They have stuff in HD that isn't on DVD yet (Rolling Thunder, for example if your a Paul Schrader fan).

The full count including even the old SD stuff is now close to 12,000! I managed to find an old Andrei Tarkovsky film (The Mirror) that I couldn't find on DVD for years.