http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/ Engadget Comments for Wal-Mart joins the digital movie download fray http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/Nov 28th 2006 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/
Walmart, Steve Jobs will eat you.]]>Nov 28th 2006 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/Nov 28th 2006 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/
They are fun to make jokes about though.]]>Nov 28th 2006 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/Nov 28th 2006 9:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/Nov 28th 2006 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/Nov 28th 2006 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/Nov 28th 2006 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/Nov 28th 2006 12:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/Nov 28th 2006 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/
Walmart currently provides about 45% of the Movie studios total revenue ....just in DVD sales .

]]>Nov 28th 2006 1:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/This is ridiculously ass-backwards.
Sorry wally, DIAF.]]>Nov 28th 2006 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/
Rawr, you're really going to spend the money to get a download when for a few bucks more you can get a download and a DVD? Not too smart and I'd guess most people won't side with you. Downloads in their current form are low-quality and thus will take a back-seat to DVD sales. Once they start getting DVD and High-Def qualities downloadable then maybe this market strategy won't work, but for now it's genius.

It's also especially smart to have Walmart doing this rather than another retailer... if they expand this feature to their entire stock, that's 40% of the world's DVDs that have online-purchase-pairing ability... if anyone is going to make this a main-stream strategy, Wal-Mart is the company to pilot it.]]>Nov 28th 2006 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/Nov 28th 2006 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/
perhaps "tack" is the phrase you may be looking for.

after all, for all intensive puposes you must be floundering anymore.]]>Nov 28th 2006 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/Dec 4th 2006 9:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/Nov 28th 2006 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/ No American retail chains aren't that bad. It's just that we are Americans and like to complain about everything, plus most of the people that post around here are no good tree hugging hippies. In America it is trendy to hate large corporations, unless of course, that corporation is named Nintendo. Just remember when you talk with smug Americans who dwell in cities along the Northeast or on the West Coast: Walmart, Starbucks, Sony, Microsoft, Best Buy = Evil and Nintendo, Apple, Whole Foods, Trader Joe's = Good]]>Nov 28th 2006 3:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/
In my opinion this is better than iTunes. If I own a movie and want it on my device, I still have to pay Steve $9 for the download.

How is this not better?

Of course simply buying the DVD and doing a quick rip and transcode is always better, but hey.]]>Nov 28th 2006 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/Nov 28th 2006 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/Nov 28th 2006 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/Nov 28th 2006 3:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/28/wal-mart-joins-the-digital-movie-download-fray/Hardcore @ Nov 28th 2006 2:12PM

"Alex C -
No American retail chains aren't that bad. It's just that we are Americans and like to complain about everything, plus most of the people that post around here are no good tree hugging hippies. In America it is trendy to hate large corporations, unless of course, that corporation is named Nintendo. Just remember when you talk with smug Americans who dwell in cities along the Northeast or on the West Coast: Walmart, Starbucks, Sony, Microsoft, Best Buy = Evil and Nintendo, Apple, Whole Foods, Trader Joe's = Good"

Yep, and that's why I live in the Midwest. I love Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Microsoft, Nintendo, and parts of Sony (not their gaming division). There is nothing wrong with these companies. They are no different from any other company. The way I see it, if you don't like Wal-Mart, don't buy from them. Don't go and bitch about it on the internet, just don't buy from them. And Hardcore: Rock on.]]>Nov 28th 2006 9:23PM