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VUDU is at the Consumer Electronics Show today (as are most of the staff of Stage Two btw.)  They have a few amazing pieces of news to share today, and have issued not just one, but two press releases to announce that news to the world.  The brief synopsis of that news, in three parts, is as follows:

1. Expansion with existing partners – many new HDTVs and Blu-ray players (BDPs) with VUDU on them will ship in 2010 from exisiting partners LG Electronics, Mitsubishi and VIZIO.
2. New partners: Samsung, SANYO, Sharp and Toshiba will all ship products in 2010 with VUDU services embedded, both HDTVs and BDPs.
3. Launching VUDU Apps: The VUDU Apps platform delivers a wide range of Internet services and applications to HDTVs and BDPs.  These services include streaming video, music on demand, photo browsing, social networking and more.  More than 100 applications are available on VUDU Apps, including Pandora, Picasa, Flickr, Dailymotion and leading news providers, such as The New York Times and The Associated Press.

The VUDU blog post goes into additional detail.  VUDU is announcing this from Las Vegas, as some of their CE partners also announce the relationship as well via press release or press conference (or both.)

CES is always a noisy time of year to try and announce something important and expect to get significant news coverage.  But VUDU has managed to transmit some signal despite the noise, and a few outlets have already covered the news.  The full list is below, and we’ll update as we see coverage come in.

• Gizmodo
• NYT
• NewTeeVee
• Engadget
• LA Times
• CE Pro
• IGN
• PC Magazine
• Electronic House

VUDU Apps

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