We heard the rumors in September, and now the day has come.Industry giant Wal-Mart will introduce a new and improved Wal-Mart video downloading site today, in another move toward their ultimate goal of complete world domination.
The big news is Wal-Mart has partnered with Sony, Warner Brothers, Walt Disney, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, and Universal making them the only video download site with support form all six major studios, and making them an instant video powerhouse. The site also plans on getting television shows from Comedy Central, MTV, FX, and Nickelodeon amongst others.
New release movies will run you anywhere from $12.88-$19.88, with older movies starting at $7.50 and TV shows at $1.98.
[via NY Times]
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2-06-2007 @ 12:13PM
Lonnie McClure said...
Apparently Wal-Mart believes this section of their website should be viewed only in Internet Explorer. I've seen sites that had some issues in Firefox, but http://mediadownloads.walmart.com/ is an absolutely unusable jumbled mess.
I realize this is a beta service, but given that the main section of their website displays fine, I would have expected better out of the gate.
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2-06-2007 @ 12:13PM
Bruce said...
Maybe they should get the site to work with Firefox before launching it.
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2-06-2007 @ 12:18PM
MacDeac said...
Only works with Windows Media Player, so it is not Mac or Linux compatible.
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2-06-2007 @ 6:18PM
fuddes said...
So the price isn't cheaper than the DVDs in their store, even though they don't have to package or ship the downloadable movies? Sickening. I'll just continue renting movies from Netflix and burning a copy of the ones I like until retailers like Walmart get a clue.
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2-06-2007 @ 7:32PM
fd said...
Safari works.
No details nor FAQ on the way things work though.
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2-06-2007 @ 8:25PM
Lonnie McClure said...
The site appears to work in Opera with only minor formatting issues.
I dug around a bit to try and determine the resolution of the videos. I comment I saw elsewhere claimed only 320x240, but gave no link to the source.
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2-06-2007 @ 9:45PM
james 42 said...
So, when they throw in the towel on this one, you think they will refer their customers to Netflix like they did after their DVD by mail rental fiasco?
Good news for Netflix I guess.
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