Walmart offers innovative movie download option

Uggh. Double commenting. I like what I said in #10 better, but take your pick, guys. ;-)

Number 9 hit just about everything I could think of. One thing did come to mind although. So if you are crazy enough to pay again for something you already own and then for what ever reason you have a download issue, are you going to have to speak to a Wal Mart drone? What a nightmare

This is surrenduring to what the corporations want. Buying three copies of the same content is ridiculous and something we as consumers will not and should not tolerate.

Perhaps next General Motors should decide that Pontiacs are only licensed for highway driving, Chevys for urban driving, and Buicks for rural driving. Then make it illegal to use any of the three for the two purposes for which it wasn't licensed.

We of course would never buy all three cars, because it's the violation of the rights we should be able to expect as customers -- discount or not.

"Why not just stick the DVD in the drive and play?"

They probably added some protection that stops them playing on computers, much like they do with certain CDs.

This is surrenduring to what the corporations want. Buying three copies of the same content is ridiculous and something we as consumers will not and should not tolerate. We don't buy cars three times and haul themem all around with us in case we should need Sony fuel instead of Time Warner fuel and, likewise, we shouldn't degrade ourselves to buying a movie three times -- regardless of the discount.

So let me get this straight. You buy a DVD and for an extra $2.97 you can then get a digital copy that you can play on your computer.

Why not just stick the DVD in the drive and play?

It'll be WMV, almost certainly. Its not going to play on iPods, because they'd need FairPlay for that.

PlaysForSure, eh? So does this mean it won't work on the Zune either, or is it using their new DRM scheme? How utterly pointless... Not that I'm saying it would be a big boon if it DID play on the Zune, just thinking of the very small market share they are targetting with this.

Heh, Plays For Sure...you mean that trash Microsoft threw out yesterday??

But, if anyone has the power to keep PlaysForSure active, it's WalMart. I wonder if the Creative's of the world will line up behind the WalMart store?

It's stupid to make them incompatible with iPods because that is precisely the device that most people will be ripping them for.