Ever since it purchased online streaming movie service Vudu earlier this year, Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) hasn’t done much to acknowledge its new acquisition in stores. Until now.

The Boxee Box will go to market next month with Vudu, the digital movie service Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) acquired earlier this year.

Walmart is about to make a semi-major move into digital home: the company confirmed after the market closed Monday that it is buying online/embedded movie service Vudu. The retailer describes Vudu as a “leading provider of digital technologies and services that enable the delivery of entertainment content directly to broadband…

Some companies have to scrounge for incremental “news” to deliver at CES but Vudu has a surfeit. The video set-top startup’s increased emphasis on streaming services, including its streaming movies, gets some more depth with the addition of Vudu Apps. The new internet services platform launches this quarter with 100…

Vudu has begun offering high definition movies for download-to-own, making it the first VOD service to do so. Currently, Vudu’s rental library includes 1,400 HD movies, but it’s only selling 50 titles as download-to-own, including new Oscar winner Man on Wire, and other films from indie studios FirstLook Studios, Kino…

On-demand internet provider Vudu is halving the retail price of its basic 250GB Vudu HD player to $150. The company’s spin: the lower price is being driven by a mix of lower component prices, higher movie revenues and, hard to gauge from this perspective, holiday sales that are now fueling…

Vudu, the online TV box, has lost its second senior executive in the last three months: first the CFO, layoffs, and now CEO Mark Jung has left after exactly a year, we have confirmed from the company (Valleywag reported on it first). This is a bit of a surprise, because…

Vudu is trying to break the voodoo curse of online-TV boxes, but is having a tough time: it has laid off about 16-18 of its employees out of 100, and is now trying to build on its retail presence. It has also hired a new CFO: Chris Watts, a former…

— Philips partners with Rhapsody for digital music: Philips is forming an alliance with RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) to offer online music using Philips’ music players…it would start selling portable and home audio devices compatible with the Rhapsody subscription service early this year.  Philips joins SanDisk Corp (NSDQ: SNDK). Nokia (NYSE:…

Universal Pictures is testing the sale of downloadable HD versions of a movie the same day the DVD is released—digital movies to TV service Vudu will offer a HD version of The Bourne Ultimatum on Tuesday, the same day as the DVD comes out reports AP. Vudu normally has movies…

It is not for us to gloat in others failures, but seriously, this one? Again? Moviebeam, the movie datacasting service which had been shut down once before, is now shutting off again, for good. For six months the service has been owned by the deeply-troubled movie chain store/retailer Movie Gallery,…