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"The business we're in today, offering first-run movies a la carte, is doing very well right now and has tripled so far this year," Vudu General Manager Edward Lichty said.

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"It's becoming very meaningful for our Hollywood partners, to the point where some have called us and asked whether we had made some kind of mistake" when the company reported surprisingly high sales, Mr. Lichty said.

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"Obviously, by doing the browser, there's no additional economic burden placed on us that potentially would come from an app," Vudu General Manager Edward Lichty said during an interview in the Brisbane headquarters of Walmart.com, the online arm of the retail giant.

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Late last year, Vudu moved into Sony's popular PlayStation 3 game platform and "business has tripled since January," Lichty said.

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Edward Lichty, general manager for Vudu, said the site will also work with iPhones and iPod Touches, but the interface could be hard to navigate, because it's designed for tablets.

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Edward Lichty, general manager for Vudu, said the site will also work with iPhones and iPod Touches, but the interface could be hard to navigate, because it's designed for tablets.

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"Our user base has tripled since Christmas," said Edward Lichty, Vudu's general manager, who added that Walmart shoppers are a growing part of Vudu's business.

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"Apple said from the get-go that we want the iPad to be the best Web browsing experience anywhere, and we take them at their word," Lichty said.

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Lichty said the browser solution was "the right path for us" rather than creating an app and submitting it to Apple's "uncertain" approval process.

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