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This Week in VUDU: Hellloo 63 HDX Movies
Posted by Mark Wilson at 12:15 AM on October 7, 2008
VUDU has over 120 new HD flicks available for rent this week, but the big news is that half of those films are in their new HDX format—downloadable HD that looks a lot better than the current downloadable, highly compressed "HD" we're accustomed to. Read on for the full new HD and HDX lists.
HD releases:
All the President's Men [HD]
An American Haunting [HD]
Be Kind Rewind [HD]
Belly 2: Millionaire Boyz Club [HD]
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 [HD]
Chaos Theory [HD]
CSNY / Deja Vu [HD]
Death of a President [HD]
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights [HD]
Dirty Harry [HD]
Doctor Strange [HD]
Fatal Attraction [HD]
Fido [HD]
Full Metal Jacket [HD]
Funny Games [HD]
Ghost [HD]
House of 1000 Corpses [HD]
Invincible [HD]
Kickboxer [HD]
Mama's Boy [HD]
Mistress [HD]
Mr. and Mrs. Smith [HD]
My Fellow Americans [HD]
Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow [HD]
Patriot Games [HD]
Saturday Night Fever [HD]
Saw [HD]
Saw 2 [HD]
Signs [HD]
Speed Racer [HD]
The Naked Gun [HD]
The Prestige [HD]
Timeline [HD]
Training Day [HD]
Ultimate Avengers 2 [HD]
Ultimate Avengers: The Movie [HD]
What's Eating Gilbert Grape [HD]
Xmas Tale [HD]
xXx [HD]
HDX Releases:
The Breakfast Club [HDX]
Pitch Black (Unrated Director's Cut) [HDX]
Field of Dreams [HDX]
Casino [HDX]
The Chronicles of Riddick (PG-13 Rated) [HDX]
The Fast and the Furious [HDX]
Happy Gilmore [HDX]
Lord of War [HDX]
Requiem for a Dream [HDX]
The Last Samurai [HDX]
Troy [HDX]
Unleashed (Unrated Director's Cut) [HDX]
Stop-Loss [HDX]
21 [HDX]
The Jerk [HDX]
Uncle Buck [HDX]
Weird Science [HDX]
Death of a President [HDX]
Fido [HDX]
Witless Protection [HDX]
Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll [HDX]
The Bad News Bears [HDX]
Boomerang [HDX]
Chinatown [HDX]
Harold and Maude [HDX]
Bless the Child [HDX]
Up in Smoke [HDX]
Fatal Attraction [HDX]
G.I. Blues [HDX]
Ghost [HDX]
Patriot Games [HDX]
Saturday Night Fever [HDX]
Staying Alive [HDX]
The Longest Yard [HDX]
The Naked Gun [HDX]
The Two Jakes [HDX]
Tommy Boy [HDX]
What's Eating Gilbert Grape [HDX]
The Italian Job [HDX]
Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier [HDX]
Drugstore Cowboy [HDX]
Close Encounters of the Third Kind [HDX]
Resident Evil [HDX]
Starship Troopers 3: Marauder [HDX]
Over Her Dead Body [HDX]
Darfur Now [HDX]
Mama's Boy [HDX]
Semi-Pro (Unrated) [HDX]
Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights [HDX]
Fool's Gold [HDX]
The Bucket List [HDX]
Snow Angels [HDX]
Speed Racer [HDX]
Run, Fat Boy, Run [HDX]
Step Into Liquid [HDX]
The Spiderwick Chronicles [HDX]
In Bruges [HDX]
Signs [HDX]
The Prestige [HDX]
Invincible [HDX]
Cube [HDX]
Shaun of the Dead [HDX]
The Recruit [HDX]
Comments (AU Comments · US Comments)
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fellersmtc
Posted 1:47 AM 7/10/08
Harold and Maude in HDX??? For six bucks???!!
fellersmtc
DigitalReaper
Posted 1:25 AM 7/10/08
Anyone know what the average HDX movie is taking up for storage/bandwidth?
DigitalReaper
Toastie
Posted 1:25 AM 7/10/08
I can watch Starship Troopers 3 in HD!?
I'll pass on that one, but everything else looks pretty nice to me.
Toastie
DigitalReaper
Posted 1:24 AM 7/10/08
@voltron80: Exactly. :(
DigitalReaper
Daren
Posted 1:24 AM 7/10/08
this, along with the $200 in free movies when you buy the $300 box through BestBuy might just make me a owner...
Daren
voltron80
Posted 1:22 AM 7/10/08
This will go awesome with my new Comcast bandwidth limits I just got!
voltron80
HJTravels
Posted 2:26 AM 7/10/08
Lots of movies, few you really want to watch, HD or not.
HJTravels
beekerstudios
Posted 2:45 AM 7/10/08
Just out of curiosity is there any info about this "HDX" format? Or is this just a re-working of divx/mpeg4/h.264? Seems less proprietary is better, but who knows I am just a wacky crazy kind of a person, that likes open formats, rather than closed.
beekerstudios
DigitalReaper
Posted 3:02 AM 7/10/08
I received a response from VUDU.
HD = 4GB
HDX = 10GB
so those of us with monthly bandwidth restrictions are screwed. :(
DigitalReaper
Rusdude
Posted 3:47 AM 7/10/08
@DigitalReaper:
You'll be fine on a 250GB cap, but maybe not a 50GB cap that I hear some smaller providers have. But really, it's not VUDU's fault. I fear cable companies are going to use caps to force users into their own services :(
P.S. It's fairly obvious, but I do want to point out that numbers quoted above are average sizes and will vary based on movie length :)
Rusdude
Rusdude
Posted 3:36 AM 7/10/08
@beekerstudios:
All of VUDU content is in H.264. However, they tweak encoding settings and they, especially when it comes to HDX, are probably proprietary as they don't like to elaborate on it (understandable since they are trying to differentiate on quality).
Also, even SD rentals on VUDU can look good if the source is good quality. For example, SD version of "Chinatown" looks HD-like and is one of 99-cent movies ("99 for 99" weekly promo).
Rusdude
DreDog
Posted 7:01 AM 7/10/08
@voltron80:
Everyone has the wrong idea about those new Comcast limits, I've spoken to Comcast about this as I have close to a dozen computers running off of my home connection (not a more expensive business line), some of which are running a business and use ungodly amounts of bandwidth. What I've been told is that despite what people have been saying, there is NO way Comcast would ever actually just cut your service out from under you, and the worst case scenario is you'll get a phone call about how much bandwidth you've been using and they'll want to talk to you about what is using all this bandwidth and setting up a plan that works.
DreDog
VencentioKabolla
Posted 4:53 AM 7/10/08
FWIW, those numbers aren't the size of the movie but rather the bit rate of the content. Instant HD streams are roughly 4mbps and HDX are roughly 10mbps. To get disk space (or bandwidth against a cap) is easy math. For a 90-minute movie, instant HD movies would be somewhere around 2.5GB and HDX titles 6.5 GB. So you could watch up to 100 instant HD or nearly 40 HDX titles in a month without hitting against the 250GB Comcast cap. Patrick Ellis VUDU
VencentioKabolla