Comments on: VUDU review http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/09/06/vudu-review/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:40:03 -0500 hourly 1 By: KevinJ http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/09/06/vudu-review/comment-page-1/#comment-970931 KevinJ Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:10:42 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/09/06/vudu-review/#comment-970931 Alas, 'tis true even a year later. Hooked up the system last night, easy, delightful, even watched a SD movie without a hitch. I think I love the technology. However, I could watch all the Vudu movies of interest to me in a month. The content is sorely lacking. Mainly a bunch of odd filler movies. Many can only be purchased. Of the trilogy, only Fellowship of the Ring is available...odd. The so called "Foreign" and "Historical" collections are just plain laughable. If you really want to delve into film, including classics, unusual, art, indie, thought provoking, explore directors/actors/genres.....you wont do it on Vudu. I have a GREAT independent videostore nearby, they will still get my business. Alas, ’tis true even a year later. Hooked up the system last night, easy, delightful, even watched a SD movie without a hitch. I think I love the technology.
However, I could watch all the Vudu movies of interest to me in a month. The content is sorely lacking. Mainly a bunch of odd filler movies. Many can only be purchased. Of the trilogy, only Fellowship of the Ring is available…odd. The so called “Foreign” and “Historical” collections are just plain laughable.
If you really want to delve into film, including classics, unusual, art, indie, thought provoking, explore directors/actors/genres…..you wont do it on Vudu.
I have a GREAT independent videostore nearby, they will still get my business.

]]> By: rl http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/09/06/vudu-review/comment-page-1/#comment-670158 rl Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:58:54 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/09/06/vudu-review/#comment-670158 I have tried the xbox movie service, movies take forever too load, I have tried moviebeam not enough selection and bad selection, then I tried VUDU. !!!! Wow what a difference great selection and instant play !!!!!! Big Difference I have tried the xbox movie service, movies take forever too load, I have tried moviebeam not enough selection and bad selection, then I tried VUDU. !!!! Wow what a difference great selection and instant play !!!!!! Big Difference

]]> By: Cjohn17 http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/09/06/vudu-review/comment-page-1/#comment-531424 Cjohn17 Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:42:35 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/09/06/vudu-review/#comment-531424 VUDU has some really serious content issues - of the 5,000 advertised titles there's little to rent. Their movie library if filled with titles one would find on a Hong Kong street corner or flea market. Laughable, amateurish, appalling movies that look like they're been shot in someone's basement. Much of the catalog is purchase only. New releases are not available to rent for 3-4 weeks, if ever. Quite a few older titles that have been staples at Blockbuster, or gathering dust at a the local supermarket, are purchase only. VUDU moderators are blocking forum posts critical of the product. "Vudu relies on a peer-to-peer network system for faster downloading. So, essentially, this company is using your bandwidth to help it save money it would have otherwise spent on its own servers and bandwidth." - Walt Mossberg, WSJ "Plenty of the movies are pure filler. They range from no-name horror cheapies (“San Franpsycho” or “Night Fangs,” anyone?) to superniche flicks like “The History of Texas Longhorns Football” and “Yoga for Depression and Gastro-Intestinal Disorders.” Another reason: Vudu’s catalog is a victim of what Hollywood calls distribution windows. After a movie leaves theaters, it becomes available through other channels in a strict order: (1) hotels and airlines; (2) DVD; (3) pay-per-view television; (4) movie channels like HBO and Starz; (5) TV and everywhere else." - David Pogue, NYTimes "The average consumer, as long as he or she doesn't have true control over downloads thanks to technology such as digital rights management, is going to have a hard time justifying an expensive set-top box when it has neither the channel-surfing capabilities of a TiVo digital video recorder nor the low to nonexistent price of a DVR provided by a cable television company." - ZDNet "That doesn't count for much when you can't get "the right movie, right now". The studios don't want to rent new releases, because they make more off sales... VUDU sucks and there is no reason to believe they will get better." - Keith Ohlfs, User Experience Architect, VUDU Inc. 11/24/07 My extended review: http://theillustratedconservative.blogspot.com/2007/11/vudu-pointless-disappointing.html VUDU has some really serious content issues – of the 5,000 advertised titles there’s little to rent. Their movie library if filled with titles one would find on a Hong Kong street corner or flea market. Laughable, amateurish, appalling movies that look like they’re been shot in someone’s basement. Much of the catalog is purchase only. New releases are not available to rent for 3-4 weeks, if ever. Quite a few older titles that have been staples at Blockbuster, or gathering dust at a the local supermarket, are purchase only.

VUDU moderators are blocking forum posts critical of the product.

“Vudu relies on a peer-to-peer network system for faster downloading. So, essentially, this company is using your bandwidth to help it save money it would have otherwise spent on its own servers and bandwidth.” – Walt Mossberg, WSJ

“Plenty of the movies are pure filler. They range from no-name horror cheapies (“San Franpsycho” or “Night Fangs,” anyone?) to superniche flicks like “The History of Texas Longhorns Football” and “Yoga for Depression and Gastro-Intestinal Disorders.”

Another reason: Vudu’s catalog is a victim of what Hollywood calls distribution windows. After a movie leaves theaters, it becomes available through other channels in a strict order: (1) hotels and airlines; (2) DVD; (3) pay-per-view television; (4) movie channels like HBO and Starz; (5) TV and everywhere else.” – David Pogue, NYTimes

“The average consumer, as long as he or she doesn’t have true control over downloads thanks to technology such as digital rights management, is going to have a hard time justifying an expensive set-top box when it has neither the channel-surfing capabilities of a TiVo digital video recorder nor the low to nonexistent price of a DVR provided by a cable television company.” – ZDNet

“That doesn’t count for much when you can’t get “the right movie, right now”. The studios don’t want to rent new releases, because they make more off sales… VUDU sucks and there is no reason to believe they will get better.” – Keith Ohlfs, User Experience Architect, VUDU Inc. 11/24/07

My extended review: http://theillustratedconservative.blogspot.com/2007/11/vudu-pointless-disappointing.html

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