gizmodo.com — "These are the first pictures of the box, remote control and UI of Vudu, a video store in a box that is going to engage in a battle royale with Apple TV come June. The service will launch with thousands of movies from seven major studios as well as indie distributors, connects directly to your TV and does not require a PC or a cable box."
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venom8599Apr 29, 2007
Well, I'm sure you technically CAN, but I don't think you're supposed to. But then, there's a lot of things you can technically have sex with.
ghardingApr 29, 2007
@m00nstone:What? My 2tb of HD movies and 3 HD trackers with over 10,000 torrents beg to differ. And it's only just begun.
trylleklovnApr 29, 2007
Funny how there was no picture of the adapter that this thing obviously requires, if you inspect the power supply input.
leesoongApr 29, 2007
SUKX.It's not Apple - It doesn't work with my $1,000s of invested music / video in iTunes,not compatible with my iPod - and isn't swoopy groovy metal & cool white Apple Mac plastic.
xdreApr 29, 2007
Not that I think the AppleTV is all that, but this thing almost literally looks like somebody took the guts out of one, slightly changed the casing and remote, and then hit everything with a bit of spraypaint.It may be an AppleTV killer but sexy it ain't.
etandribApr 29, 2007
I highly doubt this will be a device that actually appeals to the Digg audience as it probably just streams from the internet and doesn't allow for your own movies/music/pictures/etc. Since it is 'PC independent' this is going to be one very tight locked down box. I don't even see this as comparable to the Apple TV since they do very different things. This is more comparable to Disney's failed venture MovieBeam. I suspect this will follow the same path.
Closed AccountApr 29, 2007
Am I the only guy who has noticed that: - Every ""-killer product never, ever kills the leading product. It invariably doesn't even get talked about, it just dies on launch. - Every ""-killer product is almost a complete and perfect clone of the product it's looking to kill. Right down to the design language, colour schemes, interface layout and all other details.So all these posts really comprise is a way of getting really s**tty, speculative and doomed product clones onto the front page of digg, as if they were something greater than they really are...We should end this madness here.
blakerApr 29, 2007
Didn't apple tv kill itself?
svpirateApr 30, 2007
The ports on the back ALONE look better than the AppleTV.I played with an AppleTV on my recent pilgrimage to olde London Towne (the UK has 14 Apple Stores and non are near me!) I stood in the Regent St. store and played with the AppleTV for all of 5mins and got bored really fast. It just doesn't do anything special. I know it's not necessarily supposed to but I juet kept thinking "erm, it's Front Row in a cute box with a huge price tag...". In the end my friend and I ended up more interested in the Sony TFT TVs they had them hooked up to. I know which I'd have taken given the choice :o)
tessaj43Apr 30, 2007
It is pretty sexy, though. In some sort of way. This thing will definitely challenge the Apple TV, but the ATV is getting some pretty impressive write-ups lately:<a class="user" href="http://advancedmediacommittee.typepad.com/emmyadvancedmedia/2007/04/appletv_just_wh.html">http://advancedmediacommittee.typepad.com/emmyadvancedmedia/2007/04/appletv_just_wh.html</a>If the Vudu is good enough to engender that kind of praise, then we are all in for a treat: two really good boxes that may let us cancel our cable subscriptions.