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Walmartstores.com: Walmart Announces Acquisition of Digital Entertainment Provider, VUDU - 0 views

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  • UDU is a revolutionary service, built into a growing number of broadband-ready TVs and Blu-ray
  • VUDU, based in Santa Clara, Calif., will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Walmart.
  • company is not disclosing financial terms of the agreement as the acquisition is not material to its first quarter earnings for fiscal year 2011.
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FT.com / Companies / Retail - Walmart rises in digital battle - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 28 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Walmart has used its retail power and influence to get Vudu installed on a range of new devices that it would normally not have had access to, such as Sony’s PlayStati
  • es: the new Apple TV has no hard disc
  • in the US, digital rental transactions rose more than 50 per cent in 2010 to 38m, compared with 25m transactions in 2009.
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  • Consumers clearly now prefer access to ownership
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Walmart Buys Online Video Service Vudu | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 27 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • skepticism about reported sales prices
  • my source tells me this will be a cash deal
  • Vudu is an also-ran in the online movie business,
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  • Vudu has licensing deals with all the big movie studios as well
  • everage with Hollywood than Apple, Netflix or Amazon
  • VUDU has licensing agreements with almost every major movie studio and dozens of independent and international distributors to offer approximately 16,000 movies, including the largest 1080p library of video on-demand movies available anywhere.
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FT.com / Media - Television goes smart in dramatic makeover - 0 views

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  • Apple TV device is expected to be launched in September
  • smart TV
  • Web TV has failed to catch on in the pas
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  • ability to stream in HD quality has transformed the offering
  • “dumb” monitors
  • Retailers are looking to increase their margins
  • Media companies, too, are spreading their bets,
  • Netflix,
  • Technology companies aim to serve all sides
  • network equipment makers
  • fighting among themselves over standards.
  • Walmart bought the Vudu digital media servic
  • Sonic Solutions acquired DivX
  • Pace, the world’s biggest set-top box maker, is buying 2Wire to serve telcos
  • Google’s developer conference
  • Google, Intel, Sony, Logitech, Adobe, Dish Networks and Best Buy appeared on stage together to launch Google TV
  • experimentation.
  • competing services on the same device
  • etflix and Vudu streaming movies and Yahoo Widgets
  • , Google TV represents Google and Intel trying to simplify and spur mass adoption with their own content combinations, operating system and interface,
  • Google TV as a unifying solution
  • app developers to target a Google TV platform and end up on multiple devices
  • Google TV concept allows viewers to find the content they want through search, with results that mix regular broadcast programming with web content, recorded TV and personal media such as photos and music
  • Google’s Chrome browser is the interface to the web and there is a big-screen version of YouTube
  • “Google TV is not designed for local TV needs
  • “Different markets around the world have different requirements,
  • problem with innovation in the TV industry is the go-to-market strategy,
  • TV industry has a subsidised model that gives everyone a set-top box for free. So no one wants to buy a box. Ask TiVo… ask us… ask Google in a few month
Alex Street

Wal-Mart Adds Its Clout to Movie Streaming - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 09 Feb 11 - Cached
  • sed $60 million in capital, was over $100 million.
  • Movie stores like Vudu’s also compete directly with the video-on-demand services of the cable companies,
  • They are making a bet on connected devices.”
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  • Wal-Mart has so far lacked a way to deliver movies digitally to people’s homes
  • Vudu stopped making hardware and instead began offering its movie store and simple interactive service as a feature that the largest consumer electronics manufacturers could build into their devices
Alex Street

Wal-Mart Re-Enters Digital Downloading of Movies With Purchase of Vudu - WSJ.com - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 27 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Alex Street on 27 Feb 11
     
    price was slightly more than $100 million.
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Vudu, Inc. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 27 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • VUDU, Inc., acquired by Wal-Mart in March 2010
  • VUDU began by only making their own set-top boxes, (the VUDU Box and the VUDU XL), but it now primarily markets its softwar
  • April, 2007 VUDU had received $21 million in venture capital funding from Greylock Partners and Benchmark Capital.[5] As of April, 2008 they have raised $40 million more.
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  • ebruary 22, 2010, Wal-Mart announced that it was acquiring the company for a reported $100 million
  • Alex Street on 27 Feb 11
     
    VUDU, Inc., acquired by Wal-Mart in March 2010
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