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    #31
    Re: VUDU on Yahoo

    When DVDs first came out, they did not have 5,000 titles available. If you only wanted to watch what they had, you could have completely done away with VHS. Taht wasn't the case. I just retired my last working VHS player this week. It took some time for DVDs to surpass VHS in their ubiquity. It certainly took more than a few weeks.

    The point was that people who bought DVD players when they fist came out, paid a lot more than people who buy them today. Also, they had to continue to use their old VHS for their existing collections and when they wanted to rent or buy anything that wasn't available on DVD, which was almost everything. That sounds exactly like what is happening here, though having 5,000 titles available is way ahead of what you could get in the first 3 weeks of the first DVD player being availalble.

    You are faulting them for not having every movie you want to see in the first several weeks of their product availability. By your standards, CDs and DVDs should have failed as well and we all know how that went. If they had the same numbers as DVDs initially had and had every single new release available as soon as it came out, it might have satisfied you but others wouldn't have liked that as much. My wife tends to buy tons of DVDs to add to our collection. They are probalby 10% new titles and the rest are older titles that she happens upon by browsing. She has already drastically cut her DVD purchases because of Vudu, which cuts my work of having to rip them onto my TeraStations. This is exactly what I wanted to accomplsih. This is useful to us now and we only see it as getting better. Eventually, I envision never dealing with physical media again. The key word is eventually.

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      #32
      Re: VUDU on Yahoo

      Terrastations, 5 vudu boxes, 3 HD TiVo Series 3 boxes ... you're my gadget hero ... life must be good ...

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        #33
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        Not bad, actually. I'm sure I am not representative of the average consumer for stuff like this. I sometimes question whether or not it's an obsession. The big thing I want is to never have to deal with physical media again. I explore every promising avenue to reduce my need to buy, rent and handle physical disks. So far, this looks like the best alternative. At least I hope that's how it plays out.

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          #34
          Re: VUDU on Yahoo

          Supply vs demand? Price vs technology? geeks vs common man?

          Boy are we getting philosopical or what? What used to be called smoke and mirrors...;-) The main questions 3 or 4 of us want answered are not being answered....and we are the ones who want it to be good.

          It does the job it intends to do, which is probably the best argument. It will serve me up to 5k movies at my whim. But I won't buy 7 of these and scatter them around my house, that is a waste of money even if I were exceedlingly wealthy..lol

          It does not do the job of a combination of products available to me as a consumer....IE HD DVD, a surround sound player and a movie in a plastic box.

          It will be the start of a new concept in watching movies and will be known as breaking open the field, the Holy Grail of movie boxes...with a blemish or two....

          BTW 5 VUDU boxes?...I hope they don't come out with Parent-child technology for add-on's in the house....or some folks will get nice Christmas presents from you..;-)

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            #35
            Re: VUDU on Yahoo

            Originally posted by metallus2000 View Post
            But I won't buy 7 of these and scatter them around my house, that is a waste of money even if I were exceedlingly wealthy..lol
            I would argue that one doesn't know what they would do with their money if they were exceedingly wealthy until they actually become so. Even so, people with exactly the same financial situation prioritize their spending differently from one another.

            Originally posted by metallus2000 View Post
            It does not do the job of a combination of products available to me as a consumer....IE HD DVD, a surround sound player and a movie in a plastic box.
            I think this is a matter of time.

            Originally posted by metallus2000 View Post
            BTW 5 VUDU boxes?...I hope they don't come out with Parent-child technology for add-on's in the house....or some folks will get nice Christmas presents from you..;-)
            I thought the same thing initially. You can look at some of my first posts on this forum. As it turns out, I don't want to ever buy movies anymore. I only want to rent them. I would rather that all movies be rentable and the viewing window changed to 48 hours than any of the other suggested features. From that perspective, having the parent-child thing would be ok but wouldn't change anything for me. Sharing content throughout the house is only beneficial if you own the content, it takes time to download, or you can get cheaper secondary boxes. Since I don't want to own any movies, they download instantly, and I already spent the money, it wouldn't affect me.

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              #36
              Re: VUDU on Yahoo

              Originally posted by redwein View Post
              When DVDs first came out, they did not have 5,000 titles available. If you only wanted to watch what they had, you could have completely done away with VHS. Taht wasn't the case. I just retired my last working VHS player this week. It took some time for DVDs to surpass VHS in their ubiquity. It certainly took more than a few weeks.

              The point was that people who bought DVD players when they fist came out, paid a lot more than people who buy them today. Also, they had to continue to use their old VHS for their existing collections and when they wanted to rent or buy anything that wasn't available on DVD, which was almost everything. That sounds exactly like what is happening here, though having 5,000 titles available is way ahead of what you could get in the first 3 weeks of the first DVD player being availalble.

              You are faulting them for not having every movie you want to see in the first several weeks of their product availability. By your standards, CDs and DVDs should have failed as well and we all know how that went. If they had the same numbers as DVDs initially had and had every single new release available as soon as it came out, it might have satisfied you but others wouldn't have liked that as much. My wife tends to buy tons of DVDs to add to our collection. They are probalby 10% new titles and the rest are older titles that she happens upon by browsing. She has already drastically cut her DVD purchases because of Vudu, which cuts my work of having to rip them onto my TeraStations. This is exactly what I wanted to accomplsih. This is useful to us now and we only see it as getting better. Eventually, I envision never dealing with physical media again. The key word is eventually.
              You're talking about physical media. Vudu isn't physical media. It's virtual.

              there's NO reason, aside from poor content licensing with the studios, that new releases can't be available on vudu on day 1.
              There's NO reason, aside from again the licensing, that HD movies can't be on vudu.

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                #37
                Re: VUDU on Yahoo

                I was countering the arguments about whether new technology should be expected to instantly replace old technology and gave examples where it didn't. It is irrelevant what the technologies are. You say that there is no reason and then say that there is a reason (e.g. the studios) and state the same reason that has already been mentioned.

                This whole discussion is about whether patience is in order or whether Vudu should be shot down immediately because they didn't have the best offering imaginable. I'm just proposing that imaginable isn't the correct standard. Their current offering is reasonable given the hurdles they have to overcome and compared to previous shifts in technology. If it isn't ready for you, fine. Don't buy it then. But playing Nostradamus and predicting the demise of the company based on unreasonable expectations doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.

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                  #38
                  Re: VUDU on Yahoo

                  Ok who's selling their VUDU for 500 bucks?...lol

                  http://cgi.ebay.com/Are-you-Ready-to...QQcmdZViewItem

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                    #39
                    Re: VUDU on Yahoo

                    Originally posted by metallus2000 View Post
                    Ok who's selling their VUDU for 500 bucks?...lol

                    http://cgi.ebay.com/Are-you-Ready-to...QQcmdZViewItem
                    WOW! There is a sucker born every minute...

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                      #40
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                      Originally posted by NA9D View Post
                      WOW! There is a sucker born every minute...
                      Wow even more.

                      You and I agree on something!

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                        #41
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                        Service provider Greenfield Communications has signed a distribution agreement with VUDU to deliver VOD services to the company?s southern California and Arizona customers beginning in Q4 2007.

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                          #42
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                          Originally posted by mag12203 View Post
                          Service provider Greenfield Communications has signed a distribution agreement with VUDU to deliver VOD services to the company?s southern California and Arizona customers beginning in Q4 2007.
                          Sounds like the type of thing we want to see!

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                            #43
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                            You see I told you: Patience Grasshopper, like I said, all gadgets go down in price.

                            The Vudu is now selling for $249

                            now what are you going to complain about??

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                              #44
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                              That was faster than the iPhone drop. CSR are going to be busy today, what with the 30 day return policy.

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                                #45
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                                I guess it's back up to $399.

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