eldavojohn writes “A year after opening its movie download service, Wal-Mart has abandoned the endeavor. They claim that is a outcome of HP’s decision to stop supporting its video download store software. The commentary plus notes that, unlike iTunes, Wal-Mart offered variable pricing which attracted a lot of studios. ‘The world’s largest retailer instead turned its rental service by to Netflix Inc. Wal-Mart still operates a

music download service and continues to sell CDs and DVDs at retail stores and by the Net for shipping by mail.’ Is that evidence of the strength of unified pricing in media downloads or just another company being squished by the giant Netflix & Apple?”

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