Walmart wades into Online Video Streaming

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http://money.cnn.com/2011/07/26/news/companies/walmart_vudu_online_movie_service/

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Wal-Mart must be hoping that the third time's a charm: It announced Tuesday that it is launching an in-house movie streaming service directly on Walmart.com.

Wal-Mart (WMT, Fortune 500), the world's largest retailer, said it is fully integrating online video service Vudu -- which it acquired last year -- on Walmart.com.

A cloud-based video movie service, Vudu lets customers rent or buy movies over the Internet and stream them to their TVs, Blu-ray players and a variety of Vudu-enabled devices such as Sony's PlayStation 3 and HDTVs from LG Electronics, Sharp and Panasonic.

Vudu online video rental service.

http://www.vudu.com/ offers a High Definition On-Demand Movie Service, similar to Blockbuster. This is a pay per movie with a 24 hour viewing time. This is different from Netflix which is pay one monthly price and all you can eat.

Vudu also work on a number of Blueray and TV's from Mitsubishi, LG, Samsung, Sanyo, Sharp and Toshiba.

LG's BD390 BlueRay disk player