Wal-Mart to launch video downloads
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NEW YORK - Hollywood's love affair with DVDs will face its biggest test beginning Tuesday as Wal-Mart unveils a movie and TV-show download service with participation by all major studios. New releases will be available at    www.walmart.com/videodownloads on the same day they come out on DVD and will cost up to $19.88. Older films will go for up to $9.88. TV episodes will be $1.96 the day after they air. Networks on board include Fox, CW and Viacom's MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, Logo and VH1.
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Wal-Mart, the largest U.S. retailer, on Friday said it would phase out the sales of HD DVD offerings and exclusively offer high-definition Blu-ray hardware and DVDs by the middle of this year.
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Amazon.com adds an online video hit to its downloadable arsenal.
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By GARY GENTILE LOS ANGELES - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is launching its long-awaited online movie download store, entering a market that has yet to catch on with consumers but is expected to grow rapidly.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc  on Friday  said it plans to exclusively back the Blu-ray high definition  movie format, the latest blow to the rival HD DVD camp backed  by Toshiba Corp (6502.T).
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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.
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If Apple unveils a movie download service at its September 12 press event as it&#8217;s widely expected to do, it will have some company. What&#8217;s more, whatever service Apple wind up announcing will follow on the heels of a digital video store launched by another tech industry giant.
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Wal-Mart Enters the Online Music Store Mix  Wal-Mart Stores Inc. launched an online music store that works with Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Media Player. Wal-Mart, which began offering music downloads in March, said that its new store will offer downloads at 88 cents per song and is somewhat of an affiliate of ...
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Friday said it   was not trying to dissuade movie studios from working with   other forms of distribution, such as Apple Computer Inc.'s   download service.
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Shoppers will be able to review and rate the merchandise sold on Wal-Mart Stores Incâs Web site beginning on Thursday, as the retailer works to expand its online capabilities.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc said on Thursday that it will open co-branded in-store medical clinics in its stores that will be called "The Clinic at Wal-Mart."
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LG Electronics and Netflix will work to develop a set-top box that can stream movies over the Internet directly onto a television screen, the companies announced Thursday.Netflix, best known for its mail-order DVD rental service, began offering a&#160;video-on-demand service&#160;for impatient movie buffs last year. That service, though, only plays movies on a PC, and with 6,000 titles available for download offers a more limited selection than the 90,000 Netflix offers by mail.The new streaming service will allow customers to watch on a high-definition television, using a networked set-top box that LG plans to ship later this year, the companies said.While Netflix seems keen to invest more in download services, other players are pulling out. U.S. retail giant Wal-Mart Stores closed down its video download service last month, less than a year after introducing it.Wal-Mart used Windows Media Player to wrap its video files in a DRM (digital rights management) layer so that they will only play on the PC to which they were downloaded, or on certain portable media players. Now that the service is closed, customers cannot move their videos to a new PC, according to the service&#39;s Web site.Macrovision, a software developer specializing in DRM systems, is also hoping to play a role in the market for downloads direct to the television screen. Movie download service CinemaNow will use Macrovision&#39;s DRM to prevent copying of its content downloaded directly to set-top boxes or digital television sets, the companies announced Thursday.
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TiVo, the popular digital video recording system, and Netflix plan to team up to offer customers movie-downloading on demand. According to Newsweek, an announcement is due later this month.
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The world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart, is set to open its long-awaited online movie download store on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES  - Wal-Mart Stores Inc.   on Tuesday introduced a test version of its new video  download service, making it the first major retailer to offer  such a service with the backing of all of Hollywood's big  studios.
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SEATTLE -- Amazon.com Inc. launched a digital video downloading service Thursday, ending months of speculation that the Internet retailer would be getting into the online TV and movie business.
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Wal-Mart, which has been eyeing the downloadable movie waters for some time, is now preparing to dive in.