Rdio an "expanded" experience incorporating this IP in late 2016. On April 2, 2013 Rdio launched Vdio, a movie and television show streaming service. Vdio was set up similarly to Rdio but adopted a pay-per-view model. The service focused on newly released titles from major Hollywood studios like Disney, Fox, Universal Studios, and Warner Bros. Current Rdio subscribers were given US$25 in credit to spend on Vdio. Vdio was shut down on December 27, 2013. In 2013, "Entertainment Weekly" compared a number of music services and judged Rdio the best, grading it "A" and writing that it had "by far the
Slacker Slacker A slacker is a person who habitually avoids work or lacks work ethic. According to different sources, the term "slacker" dates back to about 1790 or 1898. It gained some recognition during the British Gezira Scheme in the early to mid 20th century, when Sudanese labourers protested their relative powerlessness by working lethargically, a form of protest known as "slacking". In the United States during World War I, the word "slacker" was commonly used to describe someone who was not participating in the war effort, especially someone who avoided military service, an equivalent of the later term "draft dodger".