Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart Kills Video Download Store Before Christmas, No One Notices

Honestly, if we hadn’t been tipped to this, we probably would’ve been none the wiser—same as pretty much everybody else on the planet apparently—but it looks like Wal-Mart’s video download store caught pneumonia and died on Dec. 21. https://gizmodo.com/breaking-wal-mart-first-to-offer-digital-movies-from-a-234220 The big question for those of you who bravely bought in: Will my bastard child videos…

Wal-Mart Year-End Report Card: C

Oh, Wal-Mart. You are so easy to hate. What with your union-busting, mom-and-pop-killing, big box awfulness, who wouldn’t hate you? It would be all to easy for me to come in here and just give you an F and everyone would agree with me and we could all walk hand-in-hand into the sunset, hating Wal-Mart.…

Superbad DVD Pulled from Wal-Mart

This may be the first time Gizmodo has reported on a DVD controversy that didn’t involve the words “HD” or “Blu.” Apparently the special edition of Superbad has been pulled off of Wal-Mart shelves in Hawaii because of its inclusion of a novelty fake ID. Remember the movie? It belongs to a certain someone named…

Amazon vs. Wal-Mart: MP3 Store Showdown Before iTunes Final Battle

Click to viewNow that EMI and Universal have seen the light and started offering music in DRM-free MP3 format—and according to well-founded rumors, Sony and Warner are also exploring a DRM-free launch in 2008—online music stores finally have the means to get iPod-friendly and take on iTunes. As you know, iTunes only offers AAC files,…

Toshiba HD DVD and 12 Free Movies at Wal-Mart for $300

It may not be the biggest and best deal that has come out during the holiday shopping season, but $298 for a Toshiba HD-A3 HD DVD player with 12 free movies isn’t half-bad. The secret sale starts at Wal-Mart tomorrow. A sale so secret, it is posted on their website. [Wal-Mart via Electronic House]

The State of HD DVD

Where Blu-ray is a freight train of unrivaled weight and marketing might, backed by 13 of the world’s most well known electronics and computer makers, HD DVD is a Little Engine That Could, the product of a much smaller group of collaborators that has gotten over each obstacle by simply thinking it can. Judging from…

Wal-Mart Joins Amazon to Push Labels to Ditch DRM Once and For All

Even if the remaining major labels who have yet to ditch DRM are dragging their feet on the road of inevitability, major online retailers don’t feel like waiting around for them to finally do the deed. Wal-Mart has reportedly made an ultimatum of some sort to major labels demanding that they start selling their catalogs…

Wal-Mart IS Carrying the $199 Venturer HD DVD Player After All

After flat-out denying that they were going to carry the $199 Venturer HD DVD player this holiday season, Wal-Mart’s turned around and carried the $199 Venturer HD DVD player this holiday season. But if you take more than a cursory look at this sub-$200 player, you’ll find that the cheap Chinese knockoff isn’t actually a…

You know how we told you yesterday that Wal-Mart was fresh out of Everex gPCs? Guess what—they love you Linux-lovers so much, they’re gonna restock. [InformationWeek] https://gizmodo.com/everex-200-linux-gpc-sells-out-at-wal-mart-322335

Everex $200 Linux gPC Sells Out at Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart’s $200 Ubuntu Linux-loaded Everex gPC apparently was a deal too good to pass up for a lot of folks: The online store’s sold out. [Wally World via /.] https://gizmodo.com/everex-200-linux-gpc-gets-tested-verdict-great-deal-320084

Wal-Mart Selling Wiimote Knockoff, Perfect for a Stepchild Stocking Stuffer

Usually this kind of awesome is relegated to Chinatown shops, but this fake Wiimote produced by LA-based ToyQuest is available in that most red-blooded of American institutions, Wal-Mart. The $10 to $15 Wiimote-“inspired” toy actually features motion controls for the built-in game, but thanks to the tiny, cruddy screen you can’t see anything when you’re…

Question of the Day: What’s Your Price Point for HD Movies?

The $99 Wal-Mart deal and Best Buy’s subsequent price matching got us to thinking. Just how low do the HD DVD and Blu-ray players have to go before you’ll get into HD? At this point, we’re guessing it needs to be low enough that you can write it off as a loss if that format…

Zune 2 Display In the Wild Again

We saw a couple leaked display shots of the Zune 2 before the thing was even announced, but a Wal-Mart in St. Louis seems to have them up on prominent display. The site itsnotlikethat.com claims that the sales person “confirmed they were for sale”, but it seems to us that it’s unlikely that retail stores…

Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD: $99 at Wal-Mart

Remember that early Wal-Mart Black Friday we told you about? It just got blacker. Wal-Mart tells us that it will be selling Toshiba’s HD-A2 for $99 over the weekend only, starting Friday. Yes, at long last, the HD DVD player that was hovering in the mid $200s will break the (definitely profit-free) $100 barrier, at…

Dealzmodo: Wal-Mart Brings Black Friday Early

Continuing last year’s earlier-than-Black-Friday deals, Wal-mart’s decided to put up an Acer laptop for $348 this Friday. In addition to the laptop, they’ve got four other deals this Friday that they’re going to reveal online—not in a circular that will inevitably get leaked on Black Friday websites. So to get in on this, all you…

$198 Wal-Mart Toshiba HD DVD Player Confirmed By Spy Shot

That rumor about a sub-$200 Wal-Mart HD-A2 HD DVD player from Toshiba seems like it’s true, judging from this no-reason-to-be-blurry blurry shot of an end-cap at Wal-mart. It’s not set to be sold until 11/03 and will be in the circulars for that week, and each store will get 18 units. The guy who posted…

Rumor: $198 Toshiba HD DVD Player Coming to Wal-Mart

There’s nothing concrete about this, but a Wal-Mart employee claims that he saw a Toshiba UPC in their system labeled “Toshiba HDA2-W” priced at $198. This could be the mythical sub-$200 HD DVD player Wal-Mart’s been waiting for, having previously declined selling the Venturer $199 HD DVD player due to Venturer being a tier two…

Wal-Mart Not Carrying $199 HD DVD Player This Christmas

Wal-Mart’s just made a statement claiming that they have no plans to carry the Venturer $199 HD DVD in stores this holiday season. This is probably the first time Wal-Mart’s turned down a cheap, Chinese- made solution in preference to name brands like Toshiba, but they do still offer Venturer DVD players on walmart.com. We…

Amazon’s DRM-Free MP3 Store Likely to Launch Mid-September

Amazon will probably launch its DRM-free music store in the next few weeks, according to sources in the New York Post, joining Wal-Mart and others in posing the first real threat to the iTunes Music hegemony. As Ars and others have reported, Amazon honcho Jeff Bezos adopted an MP3-only strategy so that the music Amazon…

Hype Sheet: Vizio Rising

The Pitch This commercial’s official title is “Helping Hand,” but “Manmade Disasters” would’ve been more accurate. The spot opens with a dude balancing his old tube TV on a balcony ledge, then scanning around to make sure no one’s gonna bust him on such an obviously callous maneuver. (Pity about the pedestrian who will likely…