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Wal-Mart Closes Online Movie Download Service

Posted in Business (December 28, 2007 at 11:05 pm)

eldavojohn writes “A year after opening its movie download service, Wal-Mart has abandoned the endeavor. They claim this is a result of HP’s decision to stop supporting its video download store software. The article also notes that, unlike iTunes, Wal-Mart offered variable pricing which attracted a lot of studios. ‘The world’s largest retailer instead turned its rental service over to Netflix Inc. Wal-Mart still operates a music download service and continues to sell CDs and DVDs at retail stores and over the Internet for shipping by mail.’ Is this evidence of the strength of unified pricing in media downloads or just another company being squished by the giant Netflix & Apple?”

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