Wal-Mart launches movie, TV 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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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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Amazon.com on Thursday unveiled a   widely anticipated Internet service offering movies and TV   shows that can be downloaded to personal computers, moving it   into a nascent and higher-margin business.
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Amazon.com on Thursday unveiled a   widely anticipated Internet service offering movies and TV   shows that can be downloaded to personal computers, solidly   moving the online retailer into the nascent market.
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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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An unprecedented service launched by the website CinemaNow enables US customers to download Hollywood films and burn them onto DVDs, the company announced.
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Time Warner Inc pay TV channel HBO  will launch a service on Tuesday to let subscribers download  movies and television shows over the Web, joining a crowded  market for video on the Internet.
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By Elizabeth M. Gillespie THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  SEATTLE -- Amazon.com launched a video download service Thursday, ending months of speculation that the Internet retailer would be getting into the online TV and movie business.
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LOS ANGELES -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has launched 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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Amazon.com AMZN.O on Thursday   unveiled a widely anticipated Internet service offering movies   and TV shows that can be downloaded to personal computers,   moving it into a nascent and higher-margin business.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has launched 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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Since November, Xbox LIVE Marketplace has offered video-on-demand downloads of movies and download-to-own episodes of television shows.
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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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By David Lieberman  NEW YORK -- Tiny retailers usually tremble when Wal-Mart invades their turf. Not CinemaNow CEO Curt Marvis.    For eight years he has offered people with high-speed Internet connections movies and TV shows to buy and download from his website.
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Amazon.com  on Thursday  unveiled a widely anticipated Internet service offering movie  and television shows that can be downloaded onto consumers'  personal computers.
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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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Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s entry into  movie downloading should have a bigger impact on the growth of  digital video distribution in the near term than on the  ultimate decline in DVD sales.