Netflix Losing Ground To Walmart Vudu Service
Netflix angered many of their loyal customers last month when they raised pricing for their DVD-by-mail and Streaming services by 60 percent and now it appears Walmart and their Vudu service are reaping the benefits of that decision.
According to a recent study conducted by the IHS Screen Digest Media Research Vudu now has more subscribers than Amazon and the Sony Playstation store in terms of online store rankings.
Walmart.com has prominently been featuring Vudu on their homepage, while various DVDs sold by the retail giant have come with free trial certificates for the service which rents movies on a one-by-one basis. Walmart’s aggressive advertising and Netflix’s faltering user base appears to be working, in the first half of 2010 Vudu controlled less than one percent of the online U.S. movie market with that number climbing in the first half of 2011 to 5.3 percent.
While the system doesn’t compete directly with Netflix and their monthly subscription plan, their a la carte system does allow users to pick up DVDs in the company’s stores or have them delivered to their home for viewing with prices ranging from $1 to $5.99 per title.
Blockbuster Video also offers a DVD by mail service, however they do not currently give customers the option to stream movies from their platform.
For some situations I still find Netflix useful, for example they stream a good selection of television shows and miniseries and as a movie junkie I gain far more value out of the sites unlimited rentals than I would renting 8-10 movies each month at $5 a piece. Where do you stand when it comes to choosing Netflix as a monthly service provider or ordering your movies a la carte from Vudu?
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Aug 30, 2011
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Aug 30, 2011
Just checked out VUDU and it's WAY OVER PRICED. Why the heck would I rent one SD movie for 4 dollars a movie? I can even go to redbox for less.
Aug 30, 2011
Netflix is still cheaper so isn't going to a redbox for movies. Why pay that much for a title when you can do monthly paidment cheaper.
Aug 30, 2011
Vudu is a pay per view Netflix is a streaming and dvds service. I will stay with netflix I catch up on the tv shows, besides with the crap coming out in theaters I will wait for a movie I want to see and rent the dvd. 90% of Hollywood now is garbage or a remake.
Aug 30, 2011
Vudu is stupid as hell. Netflix will always be on top. It can only get better after raising the price.
Aug 30, 2011
Only rented one movie via VUDU and the streaming was poor. Had to restart the movie 4 times. VUDU is also overpriced. I'll rent a Blu-ray from Blockbuster if I want to pay 5 bucks a movie. Don't have that problem with Netflix. We kept the Netflix streaming service but cancelled the DVDs. Wouldn't have kept the streaming service either if we weren't into watching TV series. The Netflix streaming movies are generally old as dirt. Netflix better improve their service to justify the price hike, or put their prices back the way they were.
Aug 30, 2011
Just get cable bro lol
Aug 30, 2011
No you aren't, you skank.
Aug 31, 2011
I use netflix on my iphone, playstation 3. Netflix has some really good tv shows on instant stream, and I am able to get the starz channel too. The thing I don't like about netflix instant stream is alot of the movies are really old, they need some new movies.Vudu has potential, but the high price to watch a movie is a killer. Vudu has all the latest movies, but they don't have any monthly plans. If they can get a monthly plan then I would prob drop netflix.