Wal-Mart Closes Online Movie Download Service

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?"

Comments

Wal-Mart "squished"?

[Anonymous Coward]

Wal-Mart "squished"? I'd like to see that honestly.

Re:Wal-Mart "squished"?

[flaming error]

You could also try the book here, too.

It's hard to be all things to all people.

Nonono you got that wrong

[Anonymous Coward]

You have to at least pretend to be on-topic.

Like this:

WALMART ONLINE MOVIES SUX0RZ

or if you liked the service

WALMART ONLINE MOVIES SHUTDOWN SUX0RS

See, that wasn't so hard, was it?

Re:Wal-mart does what it does

[LanMan04]

Your sig makes me want to kill you. :)

New slogan.

[palegray.net]

Wal-Mart: We Sell Out For Less!

Re:Squished?

[markrages]

How does Apu increase mileage?

Re:Cost and lack of extras the reason.

[Facetious]

I simply don't have much free time... ...says the guy posting to /. (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)