A new set top brick…er, we mean box, is now available for sale today. VUDU, with lots and lots of movies to rent and download, is priced at around $400 for the box plus one-time rental fees ranging from $0.99 - $3.99 and prices for purchased movies ranging from $4.99 - $19.99.

The VUDU is designed to be connected to a high speed broadband connection at home so you can enjoy your choice of more than 5,000 titles from every major U.S. film studio and more than 20 independent and international film distributors. This box lets you watch movies instantly by streaming them for viewing as they are downloaded and stores the movies you rent or buy. It’s also equipped with HDMI outputs for connecting to a HDTV.

The folks at VUDU seem to have done their homework by getting every major Hollywood studio on board to feature recent blockbusters and older movies. The big question is: can this set top box prevent itself from going the way of most others before it, given that consumers still aren’t fully sold on downloading movies yet?

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