VUDU / NetStreams link up for whole home video distribution

by Darren Murph posted Apr 9th 2008 at 2:41PM

Back at EHX in Orlando, VUDU's partnership extravaganza announcement was curiously light on details. Now, however, we're beginning to see how VUDU's positioning its movie set-top-box as a mainstay in the connected home. Reportedly, the deal with NetStreams will soon allow VUDU XL (vanilla VUDU left out?) owners to stream video around their domiciles using the VUDU XL as the video server. Reportedly, the box would have to be connected to the DigiLinX IP-Based Distributed Audio, Video and Control system, after which content could be accessed from other rooms. Unfortunately, that's all the details that have surfaced thus far, but we can't help but realize that the VUDU just got a whole lot more attractive for those with deep pockets.

Filed under: Media streamers, Other hardware, Set-top boxes, Others, Internet

Tags: digilinx, home automation, HomeAutomation, multiroom, NetStreams, partner, partnership, streaming, vudu, vudu xl, VuduXl

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Mike Newnam @ Apr 9th 2008 9:54PM

It's kind of cool, although all they are doing is taking the component video ouput and encoding it into an IP Video stream to be distributed by their video/audio client/server architecture. You can do the same thing with almost any high-end control system out there. For instance, you can control the Vudu from a Crestron processor and utilize Extron, a Crestron PVID, or AutoPatch Component Video Switcher to do the same thing without the additional step of converting to a packet stream.

Just an FYI, Vudu will activate the IP Control of the "vanilla" Vudu if you ask nicely. They may stop if alot of people ask for it, but I doubt alot of people will.

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