Comments on: Vudu Brings Hollywood Fare to Boxee http://gigaom.com/2010/10/28/vudu-brings-hollywood-fare-to-boxee/ Thu, 23 May 2013 12:26:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Who Will Redbox Choose as Its Digital Partner?: Video « http://gigaom.com/2010/10/28/vudu-brings-hollywood-fare-to-boxee/#comment-490874 Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:39:50 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=58814#comment-490874 [...] of connected consumer electronics devices, and just announced today that it has struck a deal to bring Hollywood movies to the Boxee Box. With Vudu back out of its quiet mode, it wouldn’t be surprising for Walmart to leverage that [...]

]]> By: TV, viewers and clash of the media titans « Morgan's Corner http://gigaom.com/2010/10/28/vudu-brings-hollywood-fare-to-boxee/#comment-490873 Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:28:55 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=58814#comment-490873 [...] “Vudu Brings Hollyood Fare to Boxee” – Janko Roettgers, GigOm [...]

]]> By: Janko Roettgers http://gigaom.com/2010/10/28/vudu-brings-hollywood-fare-to-boxee/#comment-490872 Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:03:30 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=58814#comment-490872 Licensing is tied to DRM working…

Here’s the entire comment from Boxee’s Andrew Kippen:

“it’s a licensing and security issue that’s out of our control, but we’re hopeful in the long term that we can bring VUDU in all it’s 1080p glory to every Boxee user.”

Read: We didn’t get the license because we didn’t have the right security / DRM in place…

]]> By: BinaryTB http://gigaom.com/2010/10/28/vudu-brings-hollywood-fare-to-boxee/#comment-490871 Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:33:47 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=58814#comment-490871 According to the comments in the Vudu announcement blog post, Boxee software doesn’t get HD because of licensing issues, not DRM issues.

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