sailorPremium
join:2003-10-21
Long Island
kudos:6 | Stating $20.00 in the Write Up is Misleading! Sorry, but everyone is harping about the $20.00 but that is very misleading the way this news article here was written..
By saying:
"For $20.00, you can download "near DVD" quality video from the Walmart website"
The posted article itself says UP to $20.00.
I personally don't care for Walmart but if you are going to present a front page news story, at least present it factually.
Here is an article stating the prices:
The nation's largest retailer is using its buying power to beat the prices charged by other download services in many cases, offering films from $12.88 to $19.88 and individual TV episodes for $1.96 — 4 cents less than Apple Inc.'s iTunes store.
Apple charges less for some films sold on iTunes — $12.99 when pre-ordered and during the first week of sale, or $14.99 afterward. But it only carries films from two studios, The Walt Disney Co. and Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Studios.
Wal-Mart's online store will sell older titles starting at $7.50, compared with the $9.99 charged by iTunes
»news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070206/ap_···ownloads |
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 MaxoYour tax dollars at work.Premium,VIP
join:2002-11-04
Tallahassee, FL | I was about the post the same thing. Not all movies are $20 (most aren't.) You can also purchase a single episode of some shows for a much smaller prices. Chappelle season 1 episodes are going for $1.96.
It's still too pricey for me though. |
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 CPUYODA
join:2003-01-25
Johnson City, TN | Especially when you can rent most of those shows at Blockbuster....  |
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| Which actually brings up the main form of competition that Walmart would be facing with me. Discover Card gives me the option of taking my Cashback bonus as Hollywood Video coupons. Each one is good for a free movie rental. There are 10 in a pack and each one costs $20 in Cashback bonus. This means that I effectively get movie rentals for $2 each.
So even in the optimal (for Walmart) case of me buying TV episodes for $1.96 each, my $20 would get me about 10 episodes. Meanwhile, my movie rental coupons would get me about 30 episodes (assuming a mere 3 episodes per disc and assuming that each disc requires its own coupon).
Of course, if you want to get picky about owning vs renting, then I could buy the entire fifth season of Smallville (to pick an example) for $39.99 (Amazon.com) versus buying it via Walmart's download service for $43.12. The usual arguments of extras and playing on DVD players apply. |
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