VUDU, the popular movie streaming service, has taken the wraps off its latest endeavor: VUDU Apps. After forging new partnerships with Toshiba, Sanyo, Sharp and Mitsubishi, VUDU has created the VUDU Apps platform to deliver movie streaming and various internet apps to network-connected displays and Blu-ray Disc players.
Using a "cloud-based" architecture that's been optimized for consumer electronics products, VUDU Apps serves as a launch pad for internet-based applications such as:
... and that's just to name a few. At launch more than 100 applications will be available, all accessed from VUDU's exceptional User Interface (UI).
VUDU Apps will a free service initially available on select models of Toshiba, Sharp, Sanyo and Mitsubishi HDTVs as well as Toshiba Blu-ray Disc players. Unfortunately, VUDU Apps will not be available on the standalone, hard drive-based VUDU box - the device that first introduced us to VUDU's movie streaming service. Hopefully that will change in the coming months.
It should also be noted that LG's 42LH50 (which I recently reviewed) - which DOES have VUDU's basic movie streaming service - does not yet have access to VUDU Apps, but LG is actively considering the addition.
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