All Things D's Peter Kafka is skeptical about Walmart's new Disc to Digital service, which lets you take your DVDs into a Walmart store, pay a fee and get access to a digital version for streaming and downloading via the company's Vudu service. He has reason to be — as he details, the service suffers from a bunch of gotchas.
If you received an email recently telling you that you would be receiving a Walmart gift card or cash equivalent as part of the corporation’s settlement in a class action lawsuit alleging that Walmart and Netflix illegally worked together to fix DVD rental or purchase prices, then I’m afraid there’s some bad news.
Leave it to Walmart to find some kind of silver lining in an expensive settlement to a class action lawsuit. A California court has tentatively approved the corporate giant’s proposal to provide the 40 million Netflix subscribers their agreed upon settlement in the form of gift cards to Walmart’s website, which just happens to house [...]
I love the idea of dumping cable TV in favor of the wealth of video that’s now available online. I’ve been thinking about it for years. I just haven’t done it. Mostly because much of the TV I watch is live news, usually on all-news channels–something which is still primarily the domain of cable. But [...]
Retail giant Walmart is putting its recent purchase of VUDU to work with the full integration of the service’s on-demand movie and TV show offerings on the Walmart.com website.
Not entirely shocking news, but at least we now know that Wal-Mart will be shutting down the naughty bits section of the Vudu portfolio. The following letter was sent out to Vudu’s After Dark partners notifying them of the dissolution of their naughty bits agreement.
It was made official Monday afternoon: Wal-Mart has agreed to purchase Vudu, an online movie streaming service. Full press release is below.
Below is a compilation of nerdy commercials from Super Bowl 44. Enjoy.
