Today, NBC bought Vudu. More accuralty, Vudu will be integrated into NBC's Fandango. Vudu is one of the largest and most popular places to buy, download, store, and stream movies and shows.
This is going to be one of the worst things to happen to the movie industry in years.
It's one of the 1st digital movie distribution and storage apps. It's currently the most popular and was one of the ones to popularize putting a free digital copy with Physical DVD's.
I see two problems with NBC buying Vudu.
The first is money. For the last ten years, Vudu was owned by Wal-Mart, and as such, nearly all movies and shows utilized Wal-Mart pricing. If you bought a movie straight from Vudu instead of as a code, they were cheap ans constant rotating sales allowed for hundreds of movies to be as low as $3.
What are the odds that a huge corporation like NBC would continue with these pricing trends? It's likely that they'll push to normalize the pricez back up to retail.
The other issue that I see is that this has the potential to create some sort of a monopoly. NBC makes movies. It runs Universal, DreamWorks Animation, Illumination, Working Title, and Focus.
They make a lot of movies but it's only a small fraction compared to all the studios and movies. It doesn't seem like a good idea to give a company that's in charge of their own movies the digital distribution and pricing rights to ALL MOVIES.
Today, NBC bought Vudu. More accuralty, Vudu will be integrated into NBC's Fandango. Vudu is one of the largest and most popular places to buy, download, store, and stream movies and shows.
This is going to be one of the worst things to happen to the movie industry in years.
It's one of the 1st digital movie distribution and storage apps. It's currently the most popular and was one of the ones to popularize putting a free digital copy with Physical DVD's.
I see two problems with NBC buying Vudu.
The first is money. For the last ten years, Vudu was owned by Wal-Mart, and as such, nearly all movies and shows utilized Wal-Mart pricing. If you bought a movie straight from Vudu instead of as a code, they were cheap ans constant rotating sales allowed for hundreds of movies to be as low as $3.
What are the odds that a huge corporation like NBC would continue with these pricing trends? It's likely that they'll push to normalize the pricez back up to retail.
The other issue that I see is that this has the potential to create some sort of a monopoly. NBC makes movies. It runs Universal, DreamWorks Animation, Illumination, Working Title, and Focus.
They make a lot of movies but it's only a small fraction compared to all the studios and movies. It doesn't seem like a good idea to give a company that's in charge of their own movies the digital distribution and pricing rights to ALL MOVIES. 
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