Walmart is Selling Its On-demand Video Service Vudu To Fandango

Movie ticketing company Fandango has agreed to buy Walmart's on-demand video streaming service, Vudu, for an undisclosed sum. From a report: The video service today reaches over 100 million living room devices across the U.S. including smart TVs, Blu-ray players, game consoles, and other over-the-top streaming devices, as well as Windows 10 and Mac computers, and iOS and Android mobile devices. To date, the Vudu app on mobile has been installed over 14.5 million times. As a part of the agreement, Vudu will continue to power Walmart's digital movie and TV store on Walmart.com. In addition, Walmart says Vudu customers will have uninterrupted access to their Vudu library. They'll also continue to be able to use their Walmart login as well as their Walmart wallet to make purchases on Vudu, the retailer notes.

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[CoreDreamStudios]

Matters I guess, wonder if all of peoples movies will be pulled/voided.

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[Thawk9455]

I was interested, I've used Vudu's disc-to-digital service with Movies Anywhere to provide digital copies of movies I already had that can be used with any of the services. I wish more services offered the ability.

And yes, I absolutely know I can rip the movies, but then I have to have them stored on my device or somewhere accessible to the cloud to be able to watch them whenever and wherever I want. Being able to randomly access them through any number of services to stream is pretty handy...

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[Etcetera]

Agreed... Media world is definitely News for Nerds.

Additionally, for a long time Vudu was the *only* way to bridge Ultraviolet, Disney, and other streaming library credential services together.

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[Dutch Gun]

Your bitching that this isn't "news for nerds" makes up for it, being a venerated, long-time Slashdot tradition. So, the balance is good now.

To Fandango?

[thegarbz]

That's Grim.

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[my boy]

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Whoa

[Etcetera]

First off, I had thought VUDU was just partnering with Wal-mart, not actually owned by them.

Secondly, Fandango (or at least FandangoNOW) seemed like it had been on its last legs as a streaming platform, and Fandango's revenue as a theater partner was completely destroyed last month. I wonder what made this deal happen.

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[IMightB]

I'm guessing that Fandango and Comcast need content for Peacock.

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[reanjr]

I recognized that Walmart owned Vudu. That's almost the entire reason I use them. I despise Walmart, but for a company selling you long-term DRM rights, as Vudu does, it's important to buy from a company you don't think is going to disappear in a year.

This will likely push me to make all my purchases on Google now. Which is disappointing. Not only does it fracture my collection, but Vudu actually has a really good product, and the competitors are not up to the high standard they've set.

I have started using Vudu less and less

[stikves]

I had built some Vudu library, because they had good deals, and they also partnered with the T-Mobile Tuesdays program. However I recently realized I was using them much less. I think the final nail in the coffin was Movies Anywhere.

When I purchase a movie on Vudu, I rarely watch it there. They do not have the nicest user interface, nor good device integration. This is dilemma of independent digital stores. When I turn on my Xbox, my game purchases give credits which can be used for movie purchases. When I order something from Amazon, I can choose to have slow shipping for a digital purchase coupon. And if there is a good deal on a BluRay, it is usually cheaper than digital even with a digital code included.

So I rarely have any need to visit Vudu, unless I am out of credits everywhere else, or they have a really good deal.

This is sad, though. The competition is really useful.

Vudu. old content

[bsdetector101]

Tried Vudu and was never impressed with their content. Mostly old or B rated stuff.