Facebook The Latest Platform To Watch Films

Facebook The Latest Platform To Watch Films
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Miramax announced recently that it is partnering with Facebook to launch Miramax eXperience, an app that will allow users worldwide to watch films clips and feature-length movies, play games, and share the experience with your Facebook friends
Initially, the beta app will offer rental video-on-demand for 30 Facebook credits ($3), the rental remains active for 30 days after purchase but the viewing window to watch films is 48 hours once you start the movie.
The Miramax experience allows you to watch films on multiple devices, including your PC, iPad, and Google TV. The ultimate goal is to give consumers the opportunity to buy films and store them in their own cloud-based digital locker. Then access the content anywhere they want, across devices to watch films.



Walmart The New Online Movies King

Walmart The New Online Movies King
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Walmart has become one of the largest providers of online movies in the US, overtaking established operators such as Sony and Amazon and competing directly with Apple's iTunes store. Though, Apple still continues to dominate the online movies market by a very wide margin.
With the decline in disc sales, Walmart has been aggressively building an online presence. It bought Vudu, an online movies store, last year.
WalMart's Vudu has increased market share of the online movies business, rising from just 1% in the first half of 2010 to 5.3% in the first half of 2011.
However, the question is Walmart, which has seen its digital online movies share shoot up 500+ percent, fit in and do they a have long term advantage to keep driving share growth and does it stand a chance against Netflix – the online movies giant.



Walmart The New Online Movies King

Walmart The New Online Movies King
© matteson.norman

Walmart has become one of the largest providers of online movies in the US, overtaking established operators such as Sony and Amazon and competing directly with Apple's iTunes store. Though, Apple still continues to dominate the online movies market by a very wide margin.
With the decline in disc sales, Walmart has been aggressively building an online presence. It bought Vudu, an online movies store, last year.
WalMart's Vudu has increased market share of the online movies business, rising from just 1% in the first half of 2010 to 5.3% in the first half of 2011.
However, the question is Walmart, which has seen its digital online movies share shoot up 500+ percent, fit in and do they a have long term advantage to keep driving share growth and does it stand a chance against Netflix – the online movies giant.