Sony's Resident Evil offers downloadable file to Wal-Mart shoppers

By Ned Randolph -- Video Business, 12/7/2007

DEC. 7 | Sony will offer an exclusive two-disc version of Resident Evil: Extinction at Wal-Mart that is embedded with a digital file that consumers can copy to their PC or PlayStation Portable.

The set includes one disc with the movie and bonus features. "The other disc you put in a computer and punch in a security code, and it downloads a version of the film that can be put on a memory stick and watched on a PSP or computer," a Sony spokesman said. Warner and Fox have also put transferable digital files on DVD.

The studio will be the third to pair a new release DVD with a digital offering. Warner Home Video has allowed buyers to download a digital copy of select films from the Internet with the purchase of the DVD at a participating retailer and will place digital files on the physical disc of Dec. 11 release Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Similarly, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment put downloadable files of the featured movie on the DVD release of Live Free or Die Hard.

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