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    Please Explain HDX vs. Buying A Blu-Ray

    Let's assume Vudu remains as long as Blu-Ray. I don't want to have the argument about Vudu going out of business. Let's also assume that I have a Vudu player with a hard drive so I can store a movie I buy.

    My question is this - if the bitrate on Vudu HDX is around 10Mb/s max. vs. over 30Mb/s on spikes, and averaging of 20+ Mb/s overall, what is the motivation to pay about $20.00 for a HDX movie tied to a Vudu box, vs. just purchasing the "plain vanilla" Blu-Ray (not the multi-box sets that include digital copies, 3D copies, DVD copies, etc. and push the $30 mark) ?

    I'm not sure I get the selling point, although I think I think the HD samples Vudu put on this site are stunning. They trounce cable/sat HD in terms of clarity, no tiling, no mosquito noise, etc.

    But if I am paying virtually the same for an HDX title vs. a Blu-Ray, and I can't burn a single backup copy of my Vudu movies either, what is the selling point of HDX?

    I ask this sincerely and as a potential new customer. I am simply not seeing an advantage or I am missing something at the HDX level, which is the only level I would be a buyer at anyway.

    Thank you for any response to these questions. Again, the sample clips look awesome.
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    Re: Please Explain HDX vs. Buying A Blu-Ray

    Originally posted by Savage1701 View Post
    Let's assume Vudu remains as long as Blu-Ray. I don't want to have the argument about Vudu going out of business. Let's also assume that I have a Vudu player with a hard drive so I can store a movie I buy.

    My question is this - if the bitrate on Vudu HDX is around 10Mb/s max. vs. over 30Mb/s on spikes, and averaging of 20+ Mb/s overall, what is the motivation to pay about $20.00 for a HDX movie tied to a Vudu box, vs. just purchasing the "plain vanilla" Blu-Ray (not the multi-box sets that include digital copies, 3D copies, DVD copies, etc. and push the $30 mark) ?

    I'm not sure I get the selling point, although I think I think the HD samples Vudu put on this site are stunning. They trounce cable/sat HD in terms of clarity, no tiling, no mosquito noise, etc.

    But if I am paying virtually the same for an HDX title vs. a Blu-Ray, and I can't burn a single backup copy of my Vudu movies either, what is the selling point of HDX?

    I ask this sincerely and as a potential new customer. I am simply not seeing an advantage or I am missing something at the HDX level, which is the only level I would be a buyer at anyway.

    Thank you for any response to these questions. Again, the sample clips look awesome.
    I hope I can shed some light here.....I have both some Blu-Ray films and purchased VUDU films.....First of all I am showing my films on a 2.35:1 based projection system.....The selling point of HDX for me is I get right to the movie, no forced trailers, etc....Also no worries about updating firmware on my player just to play the newest releases, on VUDU you press a button and your film plays...You may see the FBI logo on some films, but the movie comes right after that....

    Even though Blu-Ray is superior to VUDU streaming because of it's bitrate, on my system I cannot tell much difference, I have found a great encode on VUDU beats a crappy encode on Blu, despite the high bitrate......I still say that Avatar is one of the best VUDU encodes IMO....I have the Blu as well, did and A/B comparison, could not tell the difference...At this point I have a digital library of over 200 movies on VUDU....I have run the VUDU Dolby demo to friends and they are blown away.....

    I do have a few films stored on the hard drive of my VUDU box.......most are streamed from the cloud.......That said, there can be streaming issues from time to time, but the VUDU techs have always been ready to troubleshoot the problem......Yes there is no Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio, but I get that on the rare occasion I play a Blu disc..The DD Plus on VUDU is good as well....For me the advantage is the convenience and the superior experience of a top notch VOD service......

    Update: I have to amend my "best encode statement"........In addition to Avatar, I have to add Tron: Legacy to the mix....fantastic encode on that one.....What eye candy....and this was the 2D version...detail was so good it darn near looked 3D at times...

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      Re: Please Explain HDX vs. Buying A Blu-Ray

      And some of us rent the HDX titles. I own hundreds of BD titles, and I do own a few VUDU HDX titles from when they had special sales a couple of years ago, but the bulk of my VUDU watching is rental HDX content.

      You can't beat the convenience of it. Some titles I rent on BD, some i buy on BD and some I rent from VUDU. I also use other VOD sources but VUDU is the first one I check for a VOD title I want to rent.

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        Re: Please Explain HDX vs. Buying A Blu-Ray

        OK, fair enough.

        I guess as someone who prefers to own a physical copy of something, my greatest concern is what if my device I store it on goes bad?

        Am I allowed to re-download it to a new device tied to my User/Password? Sort of like Netflix where I validate a device with my account?

        I do like the fact that I don't have to watch a bunch of annoying adverts with a Vudu title. That sounds quite nice.

        And for our family, we are not huge surround sound users since our living room is not really spec'd out for that and I have yet to build a home theater in our basement, so I'm not demanding with the loss-less surround sound formats.

        Thanks again for the replying. I appreciate it.

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          Re: Please Explain HDX vs. Buying A Blu-Ray

          You've pretty much got it....the titles are licensed to your account, so if you get a new TV or Blu-ray player and authorize it on your Vudu account, all of your Vudu purchased content will be available on it right away.

          We have two of the old set top boxes, and all of the titles we have ever purchased show up on both boxes.

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            Re: Please Explain HDX vs. Buying A Blu-Ray

            Originally posted by Savage1701 View Post
            OK, fair enough.

            I guess as someone who prefers to own a physical copy of something...
            This may be your answer. I rent HXD for movies I feel have little re-watch value and/or don't care to own. I buy BD's for movies I want to own because of the many advantages and peace of mind (real or perceived).

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              Re: Please Explain HDX vs. Buying A Blu-Ray

              Blu-ray was supposed to be one disc with the movie on it. Now we get DVD copy and digital copy and so much other crap and now they are talking about Warner Bros. flipper discs with blu on one side and DVD on the other. I'm to the point I just want to buy on VUDU and not have to store all these discs. I'd like to see the library include the Chris Nolan Batman movies...

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