Thursday, March 8, 2007

Could Wal-Mart's entry into movie downloads actually help others?

When mega retailer Wal-Mart enters a market, most existing competitors fear for their life. This may not be the case with online distribution and movie downloads claims CinemaNow CEO Curt Marvis.

ContentAgenda.com is reporting that Wal-Mart's entry into movie downloads may actually help because it bring more studio support for online distribution. Wal-Mart pushes 40% of all DVD sales, this has kept the studios from attempting anything online that would annoy Wal-Mart.

Marvis predicts that "by 2010 downloading of movie and video content will be as commonplace as downloading of music is in today's world. It will happen that fast."

We are already seeing some movie downloads with the limited success of CinemaNow, Amazon Unbox, HungryFlix.com, iTunes, Vongo and MovieLink.

What separates the movie downloads at HungryFlix.com is the premium independent content that can not be found at other sites.

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# posted by HungryFlix : 6:50 PM  
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Unbox is awesome. I download all the movies I want to see, including great truly independent films (which are welcome here)to my ZEN. I watch some on the go and when at home or a hotel, I plug my ZEN into the TV and watch in DVD quality on the "big screen" It couldn't be easier - one click from Amazon's Unbox site. Who needs TiVo or a video store? The Zen is a great DVR.
# posted by Linda Nelson : March 8, 2007 10:35 PM
 
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