Re: [Videolib] Question: Wal-Mart's new digital streaming service via VUDU.com

2012-04-27 Thread Borden, Lisa M.
.edu -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Brown, Roger Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 3:20 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] Question: Wal-Mart's new digital streaming service via VUD

Re: [Videolib] Question: Wal-Mart's new digital streaming service via VUDU.com

2012-04-26 Thread Brown, Roger
Hi Actually this is more the studios' new service, Ultraviolet, which WalMart is just recently facilitating. It is very much a single hoome-user model, in which they are trying to get consumers to begin buying physical DVDs with the "promise" that they can watch them on any devices through VUDO.

[Videolib] Question: Wal-Mart's new digital streaming service via VUDU.com

2012-04-26 Thread Borden, Lisa M.
All: We're getting some questions about this new service provided by Wal-Mart: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2401511,00.asp Are any faculty or students on your campus buying into it? Thanks, Lisa M. Borden Serials & Electronic Resources Librarian, Section Head UTEP Library - Acquisition