Re: Vudu Accelerates Plan to OEM its VOD
If you are saying that I may just be able to remove the Vudu Labs button, the button's existence doesn't bother me. I just said I don't use it. If what you are saying, however is that you envision the Vudu STB remaining and the content from Vudu Labs "promoted" into the first class UI, and you can use the polished UI on top of all kinds of data, then I'm perfectly fine with that. The more content the merrier. My skeptical comments about the "do everything box" were based on the premise that the separation of the Vudu from the non-Vudu content was the way it was going to be in the long term and what Vudu and Tivo have currently done. If you are saying you believe it is going to drastically improve, then I could be quite happy with that.
About the running on the other boxes, you gave a lot of reasons why it wouldn't work very well. My questioning whether it could work well or not was motivated by the original article that specifically mentioned that Vudu was accelerating its plans to run on things like DVD players. I was questioning how they could possibly do that well, for a variety of reasons. I honestly can't tell your positon on that from your post. I just don't see that being an offering I would be interested in.
About the Tivo suggestion that I get one without VOD, I'm happy with my series 3 for the features I use it for. I simply don't think they have done a very good job with VOD. Remember, I said I was fine with both Vudu Labs and Tivo's handling of VOD as long as they didn't interfere with what I use Vudu and Tivo for. I never said that their existence bothered me. If Tivo could find a way to elegantly fold VOD in in a way that was as good as Vudu, then I would consider switching to them for VOD as well. So far that hasn't happened. I'm not opposed to them doing it. I just wouldn't be happy with what they have done so far and what they have done so far makes me wonder if it isn't a pretty tough problem to solve. They do have this new search capability coming out. Maybe that will be something that moves toward a good integrated solution. I will certainly check it out when it gets here.
The bottom line for me is, I want something as nice as the current Vudu interface and user experience is as a front end for VOD. Whoever does that best will get my money. If it includes extra content, great, as long as the interface and user experience don't suffer because of it.
Originally posted by tamanaco
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About the running on the other boxes, you gave a lot of reasons why it wouldn't work very well. My questioning whether it could work well or not was motivated by the original article that specifically mentioned that Vudu was accelerating its plans to run on things like DVD players. I was questioning how they could possibly do that well, for a variety of reasons. I honestly can't tell your positon on that from your post. I just don't see that being an offering I would be interested in.
About the Tivo suggestion that I get one without VOD, I'm happy with my series 3 for the features I use it for. I simply don't think they have done a very good job with VOD. Remember, I said I was fine with both Vudu Labs and Tivo's handling of VOD as long as they didn't interfere with what I use Vudu and Tivo for. I never said that their existence bothered me. If Tivo could find a way to elegantly fold VOD in in a way that was as good as Vudu, then I would consider switching to them for VOD as well. So far that hasn't happened. I'm not opposed to them doing it. I just wouldn't be happy with what they have done so far and what they have done so far makes me wonder if it isn't a pretty tough problem to solve. They do have this new search capability coming out. Maybe that will be something that moves toward a good integrated solution. I will certainly check it out when it gets here.
The bottom line for me is, I want something as nice as the current Vudu interface and user experience is as a front end for VOD. Whoever does that best will get my money. If it includes extra content, great, as long as the interface and user experience don't suffer because of it.
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