When was the last time you heard about a company (especially a home theater company) providing a major system update to an old, discontinued product just to make sure that its legacy customers could benefit from the same features and services as newer customers? It’s rare, to be sure. Well, that’s exactly what VUDU has done for owners of its original set-top box. Color me flabbergasted. <\/p>\n
Once upon a time, in the early days of this blog, I announced my intention<\/a> to watch and review movie downloads from VUDU. It seemed like a good idea at the time, and I actually did have some intention of following through. Sadly, there just aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done that I’d like. No reviews ever came. Sorry about that.<\/p>\n I still like VUDU, though. Of the many download and streaming services out there, it’s the only one that approaches Blu-ray picture quality. I find the so-called “HD” offerings from Netflix, Amazon, and so forth severely lacking to my videophile standards. <\/p>\n My only problem with VUDU has been that I still own the original BX100 set-top box<\/a>, which the company eventually discontinued. That set-top box was geared primarily for downloading<\/em> movies, not streaming them in real time. I could stream SD-resolution movies, but the HD and higher quality “HDX” files required several hours to download. That’s one inconvenience that has prevented me from using the service as much as I’d like.<\/p>\n