Click to viewInterrupting my nap andscoring a major coup in digital dispersion — one not even his Jobsness has pulled off ( yet)—Wal - Mart has become the first ( and thus far , only ) digital distributor to go into business sector with all six major studio : Walt Disney , Warner Brothers , Paramount , Sony , 20th Century Fox and Universal will all be selling digital movies at its online store .
flick will run from $ 12.88 to $ 19.88 on the day the DVD overleap , while older flicks start at $ 7.50 . All flick will have roughly the same price as the actual videodisc at Wal - Mart stores , though . This is also the great deal ’s freehanded flaw in our survey — why bear almost what you ’d pay for the actual videodisk ? Intriguingly cite is the possibility of discount for mass who buy both DVDs and digital videos .
It will also have TV shows from Comedy Central , CW , FX , Logo , MTV and Nickelodeon — all Viacom net , so perchance we ’ll see CBS in the mix ? boob tube show run a bit cheaper than iTunes , at $ 1.96 a pop . all told , it will put up “ accession to 3,000 productions , ” though there ’s no reading as to how that ’s separate between movies and TV shows .
top it off , Wal - Mart has inscribe HP to design the storage and ostensibly make it more user - friendly than its stock site . We tried getting in to scope it out , but right now it appears to fence off . This is a immense profits for Wal - Mart , but it stay on to be seen if the Wal - Mart name can tug the market to new heights ( with lower price to boot ) , or conversely , if it winds up drive people away . Either mode , begun the download wars have .
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Wal - Mart and Studios in Film Deal[NYT ]
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