{"id":67,"date":"2005-05-19T10:56:59","date_gmt":"2005-05-19T14:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/19\/wal-mart-surrenders-to-netflix\/"},"modified":"2005-05-19T10:56:59","modified_gmt":"2005-05-19T14:56:59","slug":"wal-mart-surrenders-to-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/19\/wal-mart-surrenders-to-netflix\/","title":{"rendered":"Wal-Mart surrenders to Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year Wal-Mart started a service to compete with Netflix, but now it looks like Wal-Mart has thrown in the towel.  Not only that, they&#8217;re now advertising for Netflix.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wal-Mart has teamed up with Netflix, the largest and most popular online DVD rental service. As a current Wal-Mart DVD Rentals member, you can cancel your account and sign up with Netflix today. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get all the Netflix benefits for the same low rate you now pay at Wal-Mart!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m curious what this will mean for Netflix.  Obviously, their sales will get a boost, but what about their catalog?  Wal-Mart only carried films with &#8220;Wal-Mart Approved Content&#8221;.  Netflix better not drop controversial titles or carry only censored versions.  Leave that to Blockbuster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year Wal-Mart started a service to compete with Netflix, but now it looks like Wal-Mart has thrown in the towel. Not only that, they&#8217;re now advertising for Netflix. Wal-Mart has teamed up with Netflix, the largest and most popular online DVD rental service. As a current Wal-Mart DVD Rentals member, you can cancel your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}