Wal-Mart cancels movie download service
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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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In the latest salvo in a long-running battle between Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and organized labor, the company said Wednesday it will close a Canadian store where about 200 workers are near winning the first-ever union contract from the world's largest retailer.
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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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One step at a time Comment We have to say we are a little baffled by the trial film download service the Wal-Mart has launched, tied as it is to the purchase of a DVD from the store. The price is right, just $1.97 for a file that will play on a portable device (except which portable device, not another Windows device surely). Itâs $2.97 for PCs and Laptops (yep itâs only a Windows version) and $3.97 for both.â¦
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc has decided to  exclusively sell high-definition DVDs in the Blu-Ray format,  dealing what could be a crippling blow to the rival HD DVD  technology backed by Toshiba Corp.
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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  iTunes download service.
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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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InfoWorld - 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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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Friday  denied it was not trying to dissuade movie studios from working  with other forms of distribution, such as Apple Computer Inc.'s  iTunes download service.
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The movie rental service has decided to abandon its plans for its own set-top box, instead opting to offer its platform through a new device to be manufactured by LG.
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In a win for Blu-ray and a loss for consumer choice, Netflix said Monday it will no longer be stocking new HD DVD movies for its subscribers to rent.
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Following in the footsteps of Netflix and Best Buy publicly siding with Blu-ray in the next-generation DVD format war, Wal-Mart announced Friday it will no longer be stocking HD DVD players or movies by June.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reduced its reported second-quarter profit by $153 million due to expenses from selling its German retail operations, the world's largest retailer reported Monday.
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Wal-Mart canceled an order for a best-selling book by Jon Stewart and the writers of "The Daily Show" after executives learned that it contained a photo of nine naked, aged bodies, each with the superimposed head of a Supreme Court justice.
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The giant retailer shut down its video-downloading site after Hewlett-Packard discontinued the technology that powered the service.
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The publisher of the new Harry Potter book said it canceled shipments to one of Britain's largest supermarket chains, owned by Wal-Mart, in a dispute over unpaid bills.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is edging into selling video downloads by offering buyers of the "Superman Returns" DVD a chance to buy downloads of the same movie, beginning Wednesday.