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Vudu, Inc.

Type	Subsidiary
Industry	Video on demand
Founded	2004
Founders	Alain Rossmann Tony Miranz
Headquarters	Beverly Hills, California^[i] , The states
Area served	U.s.a.
Owner	Warner Bros. Discovery (25%) NBCUniversal (75%)
Parent	Walmart (2010-2020) Fandango Media (2020-present)
Website	vudu.com

Vudu is an American digital video store and streaming service owned by Fandango Media, a joint-venture between NBCUniversal and Warner Bros. Discovery. The company offers transactional video on need rentals and digital purchases of films, besides as integration with digital locker services for streaming digital copies of films purchased as domicile video at retail.

The service initially focused on a digital media player known as the Vudu Box. In 2010, the company began to abandon its hardware business, and focus on integrating its service and associated app platform into 3rd-party devices such as televisions and Blu-ray Disc players. The company has since offered its services online, via mobile apps, and on devices such as digital media players and smart TVs.^[two]

In 2010, Vudu was sold to Walmart. In 2020, Fandango Media acquired Vudu for an undisclosed corporeality.

History [edit]

Vudu was founded by Tony Miranz and Alain Rossmann (the creator of WAP). 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 picture show studios and independent distributors to deliver admission to nearly 5,000 films.^[3]

As of April 2007^[update], Vudu had received $21 million in venture capital funding from Greylock Partners and Criterion Capital.^[4] The visitor is based in Santa Clara, California.

In May 2008, Vudu began displaying and selling its set-top box in Best Purchase stores. Before this, the box was only available via online retailers.^[v] In October, Vudu announced that it would brainstorm to stream films in 1080p high definition, branded as "HDX".^[6] These films would characteristic 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 slope processing" to meliorate appearance on flat-panel televisions, and "statistical variable bitrate" to optimize streaming performance.^[6]

On February 24, 2009, Vudu became the first on-need service to offer high-definition movies for download to own. Prior to Vudu allowing users to purchase high-definition movies, studios merely immune their films to be purchased in standard-definition format.^[vii] LG was the get-go to integrate Vudu into its HDTVs, with access beginning in Baronial 2009 through the television'southward NetCast awarding.^[viii] ^[9]

On January 8, 2010, at Consumer Electronics Evidence, Vudu announced that information technology would stage out its in-house hardware business organisation in favor of focusing on integration of its rich Net application platform,^[x] "Vudu Apps" (which featured Vudu as well as other streaming video and internet services), directly into cyberspace-connected televisions and Blu-ray players, with initial hardware partners including LG, Magnavox, Mitsubishi, Samsung, Sanyo, Abrupt, Toshiba, and Vizio.^[xi] ^[12]

On February 22, 2010, Walmart announced its intent to learn Vudu. The company had previously attempted to offer digital video sales in 2007, but the service folded due to contest with the iTunes Store.^[xiii] In society to comply with Walmart'due south content policies, Vudu subsequently discontinued its "After Dark" service (a collaboration with AVN), which offered pornographic content.^[xiv]

In 2012, Vudu partnered with UltraViolet, an industry-backed digital locker offering online streaming of retail DVD and Blu-ray disc purchases.^[15] In 2014, Vudu likewise joined Disney'due south competing Movies Anywhere initiative.^[16]

In Feb 2020, it was reported that Comcast (via NBCUniversal) had entered talks into acquiring Vudu from Walmart.^[17]

In April 2020, information technology was announced that NBCUniversal subsidiary Fandango Media would acquire Vudu for an undisclosed amount; the sale closed on July six, 2020.^[18] Fandango is minority owned by Warner Bros., and operates the similar service FandangoNOW. As part of the sale, Walmart will maintain its relationships with Vudu, including business relationship integration and promotion of the service via Walmart's website.^[nineteen] ^[20]

On August 3, 2021, FandangoNOW was merged into Vudu, with Vudu replacing FandangoNOW as the official video store on the Roku platform.^[21] Fandango chose to retain the "Vudu" proper name as it was the larger service with a loyal customer base of operations.^[22]

Content [edit]

As of June 2019, Vudu's selection contains over 24,000 titles in their itemize and over 8,000 television shows.^{[ commendation needed ]} Titles range from major motion pictures, independent films, documentaries, children's programming, anime, musicals, recorded musical performances, cartoons, and television series. Vudu has established content licensing contracts with all major movie studios as well as over 50 smaller and contained studios. Films are available to rent in standard-definition, high-definition, and 4K ultra loftier definition formats, with Dolby Atmos, Dolby Vision, and HDR10 bachelor on supported devices and content.

In Oct 2016, Vudu added a free, advertising-supported streaming library to its platform in the U.s. branded equally "Movies on U.s.", featuring recent and classic films.^[23] ^[24] ^[2]

In October 2018, Vudu partnered with MGM Television set to develop and acquire original programming for Movies on Us, with a focus on "family-friendly, advertiser-friendly content" derived from existing MGM properties.^[23] Vudu premiered its get-go original series, Mr. Mom—a continuation of the 1983 film of the same proper noun, on September 12, 2019.^[25]

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