On February 22, 2010, Walmart announced its intent to acquire Vudu. On January 8, 2010, at Consumer Electronics Show, Vudu announced that it would phase out its in-house hardware business in favor of focusing on integration of its rich Internet application platform, "Vudu Apps" (which featured Vudu as well as other streaming video and internet services), directly into internet-connected televisions and Blu-ray players, with initial hardware partners including LG, Magnavox, Mitsubishi, Samsung, Sanyo, Sharp, Toshiba, and Vizio. LG was the first to integrate Vudu into its HDTVs, with access beginning in August 2009 through the television's NetCast application. Prior to Vudu allowing users to purchase high-definition movies, studios only allowed their films to be purchased in standard-definition format. On February 24, 2009, Vudu became the first on-demand service to offer high-definition movies for download to own.
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These films would feature a series of encoding and processing techniques branded as "TruFilm", including the dampening of artifacting and pixelation associated with darker areas of pictures, film grain preservation, "color gradient processing" to improve appearance on flat-panel televisions, and "statistical variable bitrate" to optimize streaming performance. In October, Vudu announced that it would begin to stream films in 1080p high definition, branded as "HDX". Before this, the box was only available via online retailers. In May 2008, Vudu began displaying and selling its set-top box in Best Buy stores. The company is based in Santa Clara, California. Īs of April 2007, Vudu had received $21 million in venture capital funding from Greylock Partners and Benchmark Capital.
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The Vudu Box had been secretly in development since 2004, but in April 2007, The New York Times revealed that Vudu had signed deals with several movie studios and independent distributors to deliver access to nearly 5,000 films. Vudu was founded by Tony Miranz and Alain Rossmann (the creator of WAP).