Its over 6GB so what kind of software is needed for downloading?

With best adsl you can have 24/1 connection so it is ~2.5mb/s which makes it less than 1 hour of download but you have to live next to dslam to get that speed =) i live 8.5 km (1.6x if you want miles) from dslam and i have 8/1 and thats 2 hours download time. I bet service wont be that fast because cap will be on their servers unless if it uses torrent. Lets see how this turns out. i would quess it is no match for blu-ray.

where i live renting blue-ray movie is 5€ with membership (in u.s dollars about $7.30). on the otherhand if you havent invested on bd drive it might me quite tempting to go for vudu.

Still it is only renting. Most likely there will be drm to stop you from making copies out of it and even if you could make copies current mainstream hdd will fail someday and all data including movies are gone.

Still it will be nice try what ever the out come will be.

VUDU Box = $299
HD Rental = $5.99
BluRay-esque rental = >$5.99

At those prices I'd rather go with Netflix or Blockbuster or even with Dish or Comcast HD VOD. At 6GB I would say this would be severely compressed and without lossless sound (BluRay lite?).

Anyway, when does your 24-hour time limit start? Does it start at the beginnning of the download - which could take 2 hours or more - or does it start when the download ends?

Plus I thought there was a rumor that VUDU was going bankrupt.

nuff said