Vudu arrives on the Boxee Box, along with a host of big fixes (update)

Ah, there we go. After a bit of a false start , Boxee’s rolling out Vudu to the Boxee Box today — you can either hold tight for the auto update in the next 24 hours, or trigger the manual update in Settings. Vudu’s offering new users who sign up on the Boxee Box a $5.99 credit, which is the price of a single HDX rentals, so that’s clever. Vudu remains Vudu — 1080p/24 video, 5.1 audio — but we’ll obviously give it a look on the Box to check it out. As for other improvements, there are quite a few; highlights include better browser performance with HTTPS support, a sorting option to ignore “the” or “a” in titles, more deinterlacing controls, a whole host of bug fixes, and quite a bit more. Not bad — we’ll let you know if we discover anything crazy. PR and the full changelog after the break. Update: Vudu’s $2 for two nights deal applies to SD rentals, but you can get a single HDX rental for $5.99. Continue reading Vudu arrives on the Boxee Box, along with a host of big fixes (update) Vudu arrives on the Boxee Box, along with a host of big fixes (update) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink