Greenfield Communications and VUDU Team Up to Deliver Movie Magic to Fiber-to-the-Home Customers.Greenfield Will Deploy VUDU to Its Residential Customers and Provide Instant Access to Thousands of Movies at the Click of a Button DANA POINT, Calif. -- Greenfield Communications, a fast-growing fiber-to-the-home (FTTH (Fiber To The Home) See FTTP. ) company, announced today that it has signed a distribution agreement with VUDU to deliver video on demand (VOD See video-on-demand. VoD - video on demand ) services to the company's southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, and Arizona customers starting in Q4 2007. Greenfield will market VUDU to its existing customers, install the equipment, and provide hands-on tutorials. "VUDU delivers what other companies still only dream about -- instant digital gratification GRATIFICATION. A reward given voluntarily for some service or benefit rendered, without being requested so to do, either expressly or by implication. ," said Mike Powers Ellis Foree Powers (born March 2, 1906, in Toddspoint, Kentucky; died December 2, 1983, in Louisville, Kentucky) was an American major league baseball player. He played for the Cleveland Indians from 1932-1933. , Greenfield's president. "The company's extensive relationships with major studios and independent distributors made the decision easy for us. VUDU is what we've all been waiting for." Since Greenfield employs FTTH GPON See PON. access equipment from Calix calix /ca·lix/ (ka´liks) pl. ca´lices [L.] calyx. ca·lix or ca·lyx n. pl. ca·li·ces or ca·ly·ces 1. A flower-shaped or funnel-shaped structure. that is able to deliver over 150Mbps of usable bandwidth, residents in Greenfield communities are poised to receive cutting-edge, high-bandwidth products. "We're pleased Greenfield selected us to provide on-demand access to Hollywood," said VUDU co-founder Tony S. Miranz. "Greenfield is an innovative provider of FTTH. This unprecedented deal demonstrates how FTTH providers can add value to their offering by partnering with VUDU." VUDU provides instant access to thousands of movies from every major studio and 20 independent and international distributors. The company has been recognized for its large on-demand library, innovative user interface, elegant hardware design, and ease of use. A core benefit of deploying VUDU is that it requires zero development and operational investment. ABOUT GREENFIELD COMMUNICATIONS, INC inc - /ink/ increment, i.e. increase by one. Especially used by assembly programmers, as many assembly languages have an "inc" mnemonic. Antonym: dec. . Established in 2001, Greenfield is a fiber to the home company based in southern California with active projects throughout the southwest and contracts for communities in development nationwide in excess of 250,000 homes. Greenfield delivers broadband communications to over 5,000 active customers who enjoy TV, phone, Internet, and Intranet services custom tailored to their communities. ABOUT VUDU, INC. VUDU is dedicated to bringing instant access to thousands of mainstream movies to every living room. Through relationships with every major US movie studio and 20 independent studios and distributors, VUDU offers the optimal home entertainment experience for consumers. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Silicon Valley. |
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