Tag archive: Vudu

According to a new study conducted by the NPD Group, video-on-demand and streaming video from services like Netflix were on the rise during 2011 and 31 percent of all rentals in North America are attributed to digital delivery options. Alternatively, total physical DVD and Blu-ray rentals fell by 11 percent over the year due to the decline in Blockbuster as well as flat Netflix growth. Redbox is the only bright spot in the physical rental… Read More

Microsoft's Xbox 360 transformation from a simple gaming console into a robust all-in-one entertainment center continues this week with the release of new apps from video-streaming service Vudu and a pay-per-view app from UFC. Vudu, which is owned by Walmart, allows users to either rent or download movies in either standard- or high-definition. And unlike Netflix, Vudu offers users a catalog of newer movies, rather than a random… Read More

Based off a yearly comparison study of 3,000 consumers conducted by Nielsen, video streaming on gaming consoles is on the rise while the number of people watching physical media is dropping. During 2010, ten percent of Xbox 360 owners watched video-on-demand or streaming services like Netflix through the Microsoft console. That number has climbed to 14 percent in 2011. In a similar trend on the PlayStation 3, nine percent of PS3 owners used the… Read More

According to a report from Bloomberg earlier today, Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications and Charter Communications was looking into usage-based fees based on the amount of bandwidth consumed rather than simply a flat rate for a specific transmission speed. This modification in pricing would impose extra monthly fees on consumers that consume larger amounts of bandwidth, likely due to watching high definition video on services like Netflix,… Read More

While Sony rolled out a sizable revision to PlayStation Home approximately three weeks ago, the social gaming environment has been expanded today to include virtual movie watching with friends. Pretty much identical to the concept of party viewing on the Xbox 360, the update to PlayStation Home allows PlayStation 3 owners to bring up movies served through the Sony Pictures Entertainment-owned Crackle and play the films within the virtual… Read More

Designed for the traveler, Vudu now allows users to download movies that have been purchased on the service. Previously, the service would only allow users to stream content over a PC or mobile device to watch a film or television show. This allows users to download an entire film similar to iTunes and watch at a later time. This also allows users with slower broadband connections to download an entire film instead of waiting for buffering… Read More

According to a recent study from Strategy Analytics, gaming consoles have become the preferred method within U.S. households for watching online movies, television and Web video on televisions. Approximately 12 percent of U.S. households (15 million) use a PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 to consume online media. This percentage of people is much higher than consumers hooking up a PC to a television or third-party, set-top box solutions like the media… Read More

Recently, we learned that Netflix will soon completely split up its Instant Streaming and DVD-by-mail services. Netflix will continue to be the home for Instant Streaming and a new company called Qwikster, run by the same guys who have been running Netflix DVD rentals for a decade, will handle DVD-by-mail subscriptions. If you're like us, you're wondering what the heck is going on over at Netflix headquarters. While we'll be… Read More

Walmart-owned Vudu moved into third place for video streaming as reported by IHS today. In the first half of 2010, Vudu only had about one percent of the market, but leaps to just over five percent in the first half of 2011. This catapults Vudu over Amazon's streaming service as well as video streaming on the Sony PlayStation 3. While Amazon's market share slightly increase from 4 percent in 2010 to 4.2 percent in 2011, Sony's… Read More

In a key move in its ongoing rumble with Netlflix, streaming-video service Vudu is now available on the iPad. Penetrating the Apple market is a big step for Vudu as it tries to keep up with the market leader. Vudu announced the change in a statement with Wal-Mart, the service's retail giant of a parent. Except, it's not the usual iPad app announcement. In fact, Vudu doesn't even have an app at all. Instead, Vudu reworked its… Read More

Today, Boxee launched a new iPad app for free on the App Store. The app aggregates video content from social feeds like Tumblr, Facebook and Twitter and allows the user to watch those videos on the iPad screen. The user also has the ability to share content on the social networks through the app. The Boxee iPad application can also stream video content from a PC or Mac onto the iPad screen, assuming the user is running the Boxee Media Manager… Read More

Onkyo announced the August release of the $599 BD-SP809 Blu-ray player with THX certification and 3D capability. In addition to Blu-ray movies, the BD-SP809 also handles WMA, MP3 and DivX HD files via the disc drive or a user-supplied USB thumb drive. The player is DLNA 1.5 certified, thus users can connect the BD-SP809 to their home network in order to access video, photos or music. Network connection requires hard-wired via the Ethernet port,… Read More

Earlier this year, streaming video service and DVD rental outfit Netflix made a few eyes roll announcing deals that have consumer electronics manufacturers putting dedicated Netflix buttons on their remote controls. Now competing service Vudu is following suit, announcing that top consumer electronic brands&mdsah;including Vizio—will be adding Vudu buttons to the remote controls of selected HDTVs, media players, and Blu-ray players. The… Read More

VUDU might not have the brand recognition that its competitor Netflix does, but with the tech built into a range of HDTVs and Blu-ray players, as well as support for Windows, Mac OS X and PlayStation 3 platforms, it certainly has reach. That reach just extended a little further with the announcement today that the Wal-Mart-owned Video On Demand service will now be available right in your browser window on VUDU.com. VUDU's entire library is… Read More

Months after its release, Internet TV device Boxee Box by D-Link is finally integrating Netflix, announced Boxee CEO Avner Ronen on the company blog. The arrival of Netflix, which had been delayed multiple times, dramatically increases the number of programs and movies available to Boxee users, and fulfills one of the company's promises made prior to Boxee's official release last November. “Netflix support was the most common… Read More