Vudu Brings Apps, By The Hundreds, To Big Name TVs and Blu-ray Players

Whoa. This summer we were pretty excited about Vudu bringing Rotten Tomatoes to connected LG hardware. Take that excitement, add hardware from Mitsubishi, Sanyo, Sharp, Toshiba, and Vizio, and multiply it by hundreds of services and you've got Vudu Apps.

For months, Vudu has been steadily strengthening its stable of services, rolling out Wikipedia, Pandora, and Flickr applications to connected LG TVs (in addition to streaming 1080p movies). Vudu Apps expands their reach in terms of services offered as well as hardware supported by offering hundreds of apps to connected TVs and Blu-ray players from a variety of new partners: the service will show up in HDTVs from Mitsubishi, Sanyo, Sharp, Toshiba and Vizio, as well as Blu-ray players from those last two companies.

We've stated that connected devices, when fully realized, could put an end to the separate streaming-based boxes that clutter our AV stacks. This is a strong step in that direction. Though it's unclear exactly how Vudu will manage all the new content, the screenshots suggest some sort of browser-based system. By officially partnering with Mitsubishi, Sanyo, Sharp, Toshiba, and Vizio, and bringing content from Twitter to New York Times to Entourage, Vudu Apps shows a lot of promise for multi-service, connected TVs and Blu-ray players in 2010.

• VUDU Streaming Movie Service
• Pandora
• Flickr
• Picasa
• Facebook
• Twitter
• AP
• New York Times
• Dailymotion
• Stock Quotes
• Weather
• NBC Nightly News
• Meet the Press
• Today
• Countdown
• Rachel Maddow
• Morning Joe
• Zeitgeist
• Good Morning America
• Face the Nation
• White House Weekly Address
• Fast Draw
• Katie Couric's Notebook
• Anderson Cooper 360 Daily
• CNN Daily
• Bill Moyers Journal
• In Case You Missed It
• Now in the News
• CNN Student News
• Journal Editorial Report
• FOX News Flash
• Washington Post | Photo Stories
• Washington Post | HD Podcast
• Slate V
• Around the Horn
• Mike & Mike Moment
• The Basketball Jones
• MLS
• The Dish
• Racing One
• TGRtv Extreme HD
• Discovery Channel
• NOVA
• Nature
• NASA Jet Propulsion Lab
• Hidden Universe HD
• Ted Talks
• Walt Mossberg
• Andy Jordan's Tech Diary
• USA Today - Talking Tech
• Hak5
• Pixel Perfect
• Systm
• Fresh Trax
• Philharmonia Orchestra
• XLR8R
• Best of VH1
• The Frustrated Rockstars
• UVTV
• Popcorn
• The Digg Reel
• The Screening Room
• Scene Stealers
• Indie Film Nation
• National Lampoon
• New Yorker Animated Cartoons
• iFanboy
• Scam School
• Sesame Street
• Stump the Chef (HD)
• Good Housekeeping: Whats for Dinner
• Delicious TV Veg
• City by City (HD)
• DiveFilm HD
• The Parent Code (HD)
• Rocketboom
• Diggnation HD
• Totally Rad Show
• Tekzilla
• Best of Revision3
• Sessler's Soapbox Video Podcast
• Attack of the Show
• X-Play's Daily Video Podcast
• X-Play Game Previews
• G4 Videogame Trailers
• Fresh Ink
• The Feed Daily Video Podcast
• Gadget Pr0n
• Around the Net
• Cheat! Video Podcast
• The MMO Report
• Teton Gravity Research
• Golf Tips
• From the Top at Carnegie Hall
• Stand Up
• IRrelevant Astronomy
• London Landscape TV
• Backpack Picnic
• Big Love
• Bored To Death
• Curb Your Enthusiasm
• Entourage
• Flight of the Conchords
• Hung
• True Blood
• New York on the Clock
• ABC News with Diane Sawyer
• Amanpour
• Cnet News
• Monocle
• Princeton University
• Californication
• Dexter
• Beautiful places in HD
• City Concealed

Send an email to Kyle VanHemert, the author of this post, at kvanhemert@gizmodo.com.

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