Vudu, the relatively expensive set-top box for movie rentals, has been chugging along at a meager but positive rate. The problems lie, as AlleyInsider points out, in its high price (relative to AppleTV), and its closed-system (AppleTV accesses iTunes and Youtube).
But they may have found a valuable addition to their movie libraries (which at the moment consist of about 5,000 titles): porn. And not just any porn, but HD porn. The Adult Video Network (AVN) is now a channel on Vudu, and titles can be "rented" the same way normal video titles are. Whether or not this venture will be profitable in the face of massive amounts of free porn available on the internet is anybody's guess, but maybe people will appreciate its subtletly ('Honey? I'm just gonna go, uhhh, rent a MOVIE on Vudu, see you in an hour and a half...'). All I know is that already questionable remote just got a bit more suggestive.
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