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More => Music and Movie Services => Topic started by: JimH on December 27, 2007, 08:34:22 pm

Title: Walmart discontinues movie service
Post by: JimH on December 27, 2007, 08:34:22 pm

Walmart has dropped a service powered by HP.  Not clear whether something else may follow.

"Wal-Mart Stores Inc quietly canceled its online video download service less than a year after the site went live, a company spokeswoman said on Thursday.
 
"Wal-Mart shut down the download site after Hewlett Packard Co discontinued the technology that powered it, Walmart.com spokeswoman Amy Colella said in an e-mail. She added that it will not look for another technology partner.

"HP spokesman Hector Marinez said the company decided to discontinue its video download-only merchant store services because the market for paid video downloads did not perform "as expected." He noted that the Internet video business remains uncertain and is changing rapidly."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071228/wr_nm/walmart_dc;_ylt=AtXkHjs_C8cXMx.FVEAXrJFk24cA

Title: Re: Walmart discontinues movie service
Post by: KingSparta on December 28, 2007, 06:04:10 pm

Maybe it was a bad user interface.

Title: Re: Walmart discontinues movie service
Post by: JimH on December 28, 2007, 06:11:49 pm

I think they forgot to brush after every meal.

Title: Re: Walmart discontinues movie service
Post by: KingSparta on December 28, 2007, 06:19:01 pm

Yahoo Music has left me with a bad taste also (DRM).

I wonder how Amazon's Digital Video downloads are doing.

Title: Re: Walmart discontinues movie service
Post by: JimH on December 29, 2007, 05:26:56 am

I've watched 4 or 5 of Amazon's Unbox movies without any problems.  They're good quality.