Walmart Reportedly Planning Streaming Service to Rival Netflix

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Have you ever bought a non-UV or non-MA film or TV show on Vudu? I haven't. I've always bought non-UV/MA content on iTunes.
Twice i think. Once was unintentional on my sub account. I have bought a few foreign films on Google Play and Amazon because vudu didn't have them.

UV is dying. I'd be shocked if the other Studios didn't join movies anywhere by Year's End
 

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I know everybody wants a piece of the pie but this is pure market saturation at this point. I even side eyed Apple having it's own service. It's too late. The game is pretty much sewed up. Nobody hopping on the streaming bandwagon in 2018 or later is gonna make it like that.

Also, the majority of quality shows are going to be courted by larger, more established platforms and most show runners wanna go where the money and status is. Netflix is the gold standard, then Amazon and Hulu. Unless Walmart lucks out with a smash hit like the Handmaid's Tale, who's going to give a fukk? What titles are they going to offer that I can't find on one of the many other platforms I already pay for?
 

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I know everybody wants a piece of the pie but this is pure market saturation at this point. I even side eyed Apple having it's own service. It's too late. The game is pretty much sewed up. Nobody hopping on the streaming bandwagon in 2018 or later is gonna make it like that.

Also, the majority of quality shows are going to be courted by larger, more established platforms and most show runners wanna go where the money and status is. Netflix is the gold standard, then Amazon and Hulu. Unless Walmart lucks out with a smash hit like the Handmaid's Tale, who's going to give a fukk? What titles are they going to offer that I can't find on one of the many other platforms I already pay for?

Netflix is not the gold standard. They can't get everything and even the content they do have gets rotated or they end up losing.They're still Indy, so what happens when every media conglomerate pulls their content off of Netflix for their own streaming service? That's the next step. Netflix can't sustain as a original content only platform. Nothing outside of the media companies can, with regards to streaming. As for Walmart, I would think they would enhance their VUDU platform then outright stream from nothing. I could see companies offering Walmart their first rights to digital/streaming at a premium, because Walmart still sells other stuff, so people still use it.
 
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