Plexus Entertainment has looked at the Internet and has said, "If there was only a way people could read a review or watch a trailer for a movie and then click a simple button to be notified when and where that movie becomes available on all the formats I want."

Plenty of news in the world of online video this past week, though many of us probably found ourselves distracted by things like family interaction, football games, and turkey. Because we were all a little more distracted than normal, it's an even better idea to catch up on the latest news, opinions, articles, and tips from the online video universe. Reel Stories You Might Have Missed Netflix will take a loss in 2012...

The times, they are a' changin. It seems that every time we turn around the online video industry takes a step more towards what users want

While everyone in the media been debating the many juicy storylines in online streaming services–such as the Netflix price hike and their new content licensing deals, or Hulu’s possible sale to Google or other suitors and new ad formats like Ad Swap–and what these stories might mean for the future of premium online video content, Hollywood’s been busy with some experiments and plans of their own. And they range from the clever and unique to the downright stupid.

So the holiday weekend is over, we’re all climbing out of food comas, lathering up skin lotion from too much sun and generally getting back into the groove. We’re still free, we partied like it and now we’ve all got to pay

Here’s one for the ‘That’s Really Stupid’ category: Walmart-owned VUDU is going to sell “digital movie cards” for the film Battle: Los Angeles. The cards will available for purchase at Wal-mart stores, and will be priced at $14.96. The digital movie cards are then redeemable, online, for an SD digital copy of the film.

There’s a lot of speculation about some partnerships between streaming device makers and streaming content providers and all of them are good for the industry. The biggest of which is the speculation that Wal-Mart’s Vudu and Roku are working to tie the knot and offer the former’s content through the latter’s devices. This speculation comes from the fact that the Roku boxes have shown up on Wal-Mart shelves

Earlier in the year Netflix announced they would have a dedicated button on remote controls for connected devices coming from some manufacturers. Wal-Mart obviously thought that a brilliant idea and so got those same manufacturers to put some Vudu buttons on the remotes as well.

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