VUDU To Cut Price From $399 To $295
A little birdy just sent me a press release that VUDU has scheduled to hit in the morning. They will be cutting the MSRP on their entry-level box from $399 to $295 effective January 24th. Certainly a move in the right direction, but still too expensive for what it provides in my opinion. Get it down to $199 and it gets interesting, $99 and it is an easy sale. But I still don’t like the multiplying set top boxes. I wish it did more. If it worked as a media center extender, supporting other content, it would be a much better value.
In what I think it is nice gesture, VUDU will offer a $100 movie credit to anyone who has purchased a VUDU box in the last 30 days, provided they can supply proof of purchase. Shades of the iPhone price drop, though this credit should certainly be more useful to VUDU owners than Apple’s credit was to iPhone owners. They also restate that the VUDU XL, announced at CES, will ship by the end of February.
The press release:
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