Wal-Mart

Weird Combo of the Day: PS3 Kiosk With HD DVDs

Seen at Wal-Mart, the finest high-tech outlet in the US, this PlayStation 3 store display has not just PS3 games and Blu-ray movies, it even has HD DVDs as well! No wonder its console costs so much. Hidden HD DVD support that nobody knew about! Click in for a better view. [Thanks Tipster!]

Wal-Mart has begun selling 256Kbps DRM-free MP3 tracks from EMI for 94 cents each ($9.22 per album). To view its new and improved music store, you’ll need Internet Explorer. [Wal-Mart]

Dr. Pepper Pays Boy Band To Live, Perform In Bubble

The latest installment in the “if dumb people watch, it must be smart” genre—a category that brought us Big Brother, The Real World, Making The Band and David Blaine—is the descriptively named Band In A Bubble, airing tomorrow on MTV. Somehow, we got blueprints of the bubble. A band I’ve never heard of called Cartel…

Big-Box Retailers: Why We Need iTunes and Other Online Stores

An article in the Wall Street Journal today drives home why record labels need to hop on the DRM-free digital music train to get their wares out there. Wal-Mart, Best Buy and their ilk are now responsible for at least 65 percent of all music sales—including online stores—and they’re reducing the amount of music they…

Format War Non-News and Rumor Smash: Wal-Mart Didn’t Order 2M HD DVD Players

Remember those rumors that Wal-Mart was going big in HD DVD and ordering 2 million cheapo Chinese HD DVD players? Yeah, that’s not so true. Fuh Yuan, the company supposedly taking the orders, just posted a correction regarding the orders, saying they “had not received yet.” Wal-Mart just asked them for a cost analysis and…

Dealzmodo: Sam’s Club Xbox 360 HD DVD Drives for $72

If you’re looking for a great deal on HD DVD drives for the Xbox 360, now’s the perfect time to hit up Sam’s Club. Reader Chris tipped us off to this $72 deal, which is coming as a result of “Wal-Mart” not stocking these HD DVD drives anymore. Chris isn’t sure whether they meant only…

Wal-Mart Makes the Push for $299 HD DVD Machines

Rumor on the interwebs has it that Wal-Mart is about to bring HD DVD to the masses. The retail giant we all love to hate just bought 2 million HD DVD units from Taiwanese electronics corp Fuh Yuan, who along with TDK recently built a massive factory to handle HD DVD cores. What does Wal-Mart…

Wal-Mart Agrees to Sell HD Radio

Wal-Mart has reached an agreement and will begin selling HD Radio players today at many stores nationwide. A $170 JVC car-radio will be the first available, but it is interesting to see Wal-Mart to plunge on this technology all together. As Orbitcast points out the fact that HD Radio is free could appeal to the…

Top 10 Reasons Why Movie Downloads Suck

Click to viewMovie downloads suck. There are lots of reasons why they haven’t caught on yet, and we have the Top 10 of them here. Sure, everyone’s talking about movie downloads, but in reality hardly anyone is doing anything about them. The idea of having a limitless selection of every movie ever filmed is compelling,…

Straight From Sam Walton’s Mouth: New Details on Wal-Mart Movie Download Service

We have a lot of new details about Wal-Mart’s movie download service—it is, as some feared, not as full-featured as we would have hoped, but it was repeatedly emphasized throughout the conversation that the service is very much in the “early beta stage,” so they’re “primarily focused on… improving what [they] offer.” Full rundown follows.…

Breaking! Wal-Mart First to Offer Digital Movies From All “Big Six” Studios

Click to view Interrupting my sleep and scoring a major coup in digital distribution—one not even his Jobsness has pulled off (yet)—Wal-Mart has become the first (and thus far, only) digital distributor to go into business with all six major studios: Walt Disney, Warner Brothers, Paramount, Sony, 20th Century Fox and Universal will all be…

Low End Theory: Always Low Prices! And Yet…

By Brendan I. Koerner A few weeks back, I asked y’all a tough ethical question: have you ever felt guilty about buying pirated goods in the name of saving a few bucks? Now I’ve got another dilemma to ponder, inspired by my recent discovery of the four-gig Ematic flash drive pictured to the right. What…

DVD Player Faceoff: $18 Durabrand vs. $20,000 Meridian

If you remember the dark days when the cheapest DVD player in the world cost $1000, you might get a kick out of this one by Chinese manufacturer Durabrand, selling at the British subsidiary of Wal-Mart for £9 (just under $18.00). How low can they go, indeed. That would qualify as disposable. We’d like to…

The Real Losers of the Next-Gen DVD Battle

The average consumer. It’s confusing enough for them to figure out that HD DVDs and Blu-rays don’t work in standard DVD players, as seen in this picture taken at Wal-Mart. But how are they going to know that Blu-ray discs won’t work in HD DVDs, and vice versa? To both the HD DVD and Blu-ray…

Wal-Mart, Don’t Touch Me There

What does Wal-Mart’s product description have to say about the zoom capabilities of the JVC GRD347US? Powerful 20x optical zoom lets you capture great candid shots, especially of children, because you can stand across the room and they don’t realize you’re filming them. Wow. Like…nothing I can say here can top that. Thanks John! Wal-Mart…

Dealzmodo: $350 Xbox 360 Premium

Ok, technically the 360 will still run you $399. But if you buy one at Wal-Mart in-store only, they will give you a $50 giftcard on the spot. Instead of a bundle with some game you have no interest in anyway, you can put the $50 to Gears of War or Viva Pinata. Both are…

Wal-Mart Relies on Superman to Kick Off Movie Service

Looks like Wal-Mart is looking for a slice of the movie download business. Starting next week it’s launching its own movie store. The way it works is you buy a DVD at the store and then log onto the Wal-Mart website to get your download (each DVD will have a sticker with a URL and…

Wal-Mart’s Zune Displays

His Zuneness has landed at Wal-Mart, home of schlock and ladies giving each other massive internal injuries over $30 DVD players. These pictures were taken with a cameraphone and thus, as clear as putting sandpaper inside your eyelid. But it does show us that the black and two brown players are visible at Wal-Mart. What,…

Walmart Listing Zune at $284, Plus Zune Phone Coming Soon?

We know Wal-Mart’s selling Zunes, but it looks like they’ve spilled the beans on the price as well. The Zune’s listed at $284, leading us to think that the real MSRP will be $299.99. Also, a Zune phone is definitely on the horizon. Whether it’s a Zune w/ phone hardware in it, or a phone…

Wal-Mart Already Clearing Out RCA HD DVD Players?

Brian, a reader over at HD Beat is claiming that he saw a RCA HD DVD player on one of the Wal-Mart clearance racks. Wal-Mart does control this country, so will they be the ones deciding the fate between HD DVD and Blu-Ray? According to Brian the player was going for $350, which is a…