{"id":351594,"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.media\/index\/351594","title":{"rendered":"Walmarts Gets Into Streaming Video With Possible Vudu Acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/walmart_logo_expovudu-thumb-400x396-37297.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>While Walmart sells everything from gasoline to groceries, and they have a pretty sizable online presence, they haven&#8217;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<p>Much like <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/02\/is-microsoft-trying-to-buy-blackberry.html\" >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<p>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&#8217;t get into the online video business now, they risk losing a huge chunk of revenue.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/23\/technology\/23video.html?src=tptw\" >Wal-Mart Is Said to Be Buying Vudu Movie Service <\/a> [NY Times, via <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5477406\/report-wal+marts-buying-vudu-after-all\" >gizmodo<\/a>] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Walmart sells everything from gasoline to groceries, and they have a pretty sizable online presence, they haven&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}