Vudu Movies On Us

Via CordKillers 142, I see that Walmart has launched a new service called Vudu Movies On Us.

You access the service through the Vudu app.  The drawback is that Vudu is only on one of the major streaming boxes.  It's on the Roku, but not on the Fire TV or Apple TV.

Anyway I hooked up my Roku and checked it out.

So launch Vudu.  Go to Spotlight (actually it was already highlighted), then go down to Movies On Us.

Yep.  There's 241 movies.  All free with ads.  Actually there's a lot more than 241 movies.  There's 241 featured movies.  219 in Top Drama.  115 in Top Action.  193 in Top Comedy.  65 in Top Romance.  165 in Music/Musicals.  100 in Family Movie Night.  37 in Animation.  578 in Documentaries.  Plus a few more categories.

Among the ones that caught to my eye were True Grit (the newer one), School of Rock, A Walk To Remember, Searching For Bobby Fischer, The Phantom of the Opera, Mad Max, Stardust, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Midnight Cowboy, The Magnificent Seven, Inherit The Wind, Waiting for Superman, Aeon Flux, The Running Man, Collateral Damage, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Star Trek: Nemesis, Race for Your Life Charlie Brown, The Legend of Bruce Lee, Universal Soldier, The Brothers Bloom (actually never heard of it before but the trailer seems fun), An Inconvenient Truth, Wayne's World 2, Pink Floyd: Behind the Wall,    So some well-known titles.

Some of these are on other free services like tubitv but certainly not all.  And the service is more responsive, seems better organized with not as much junk as Tubi.  The selection is as good or better than Crackle.  They certainly have more movies, though Crackle might have a few newer movies and also has more TV shows.

So I suppose this is another reason to go into the Vudu app.  But it's not like I don't have already have enough to watch with Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime.  And if I actually want to buy something, I prefer buying it on Amazon largely because it's on both the Fire TV as well as the Roku.  And also I like the captions on Amazon more than on Vudu.

One thing I do like about Vudu is that always have a few free TV episodes you can buy.  Generally, I check to see what's free on Fandango on the Roku or the TV section on the Apple TV to see what they are offering for free.  And often Vudu has it too (as well as Amazon).

All in all, I have to give it a thumbs up.  You can't argue with free.