{"id":672379,"date":"2010-02-22T14:48:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T19:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002418"},"modified":"2010-02-22T14:49:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T19:49:22","slug":"walmarts-gets-into-streaming-video-with-possible-vudu-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/672379","title":{"rendered":"Walmarts Gets Into Streaming Video With Possible Vudu Acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While Walmart sells everything from gasoline to groceries, and they have a pretty sizable online presence, they haven’t gotten into the lucrative business of on-demand\/streaming video. But that could all change with news that the box store leviathan is about to purchase streaming video service Vudu.<\/p>\n

Much like Microsoft considering buying a smartphone company<\/a>, this is a move that could help Big W keep afloat in an ever-evolving marketplace. <\/p>\n

Walmart is currently the largest DVD retailer in the country, but as the quality of streaming and downloaded video improves to match DVD and Blu-Ray, more and more customers are moving in that direction. If Walmart doesn’t get into the online video business now, they risk losing a huge chunk of revenue.<\/p>\n

But the acquisition of a struggling company like Vudu allows them to get a head start, rather than having to develop the technology or create a new infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Is this a smart move for Walmart? Do you care who provides your on-demand video, so long as it looks good and the price is right?<\/p>\n

Wal-Mart Is Said to Be Buying Vudu Movie Service <\/a> [NY Times, via gizmodo<\/a>] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While Walmart sells everything from gasoline to groceries, and they have a pretty sizable online presence, they haven’t gotten into the lucrative business of on-demand\/streaming video. But that could all change with news that the box store leviathan is about to purchase streaming video service Vudu. Much like Microsoft considering buying a smartphone company, this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2OUP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}