Wal-Mart shuts down online video download service
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Dec 28, 2007 at 7:21am
Wal-Mart has “quietly canceled” its online video download service less than a year after the site went live, reports Reuters.
Wal-Mart shut down the download site after Hewlett Packard discontinued the technology that powered it, Walmart.com spokeswoman Amy Colella told Reuters. She added that it will not look for another technology partner.
HP spokesman Hector Marinez said the company decided to discontinue its video download-only merchant store services because the market for paid video downloads did not perform “as expected.” He told Reuters that the Internet video business remains uncertain and is changing rapidly.
Wal-Mart will continue offering physical DVDs for sale at its stores and online, but would not continue the online downloads business, said Colella, who declined to disclose the number of downloads sold on the site.
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