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Blockbuster Teams With Microsoft For Mobile Movies

Posted on Tuesday, December 2, 2008 by MegaZone

Blockbuster has teamed with Microsoft to bring digital video to mobile devices using Microsoft’s Live Mesh technology. It sounds like this will still be a download service and not streaming, based on the suggested use case of buying content from … Continue reading →

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Blockbuster Wants To Top Your Set With Their Box

Posted on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 by MegaZone

Well, it looks like Home Media Magazine was right, Blockbuster is releasing their own set-top box. Well, like Netflix partnered with Roku, Blockbuster is partnering with 2Wire. The 2Wire MediaPoint digital media player is currently available for free if you … Continue reading →

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Blockbuster To Release Their Own Movie STB

Posted on Saturday, November 8, 2008 by MegaZone

Blockbuster seems to be perpetually behind Netflix in the rental market. Netflix pioneered rent-by-mail, eventually Blockbuster jumped into the market as well as they saw it eroding rentals from their stores. Then Netflix rolled out online streaming, and roughly eight … Continue reading →

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Blockbuster Ramps Up Their Blu-ray Efforts

Posted on Thursday, April 10, 2008 by MegaZone

Blockbuster is rolling out Blu-ray to all of the corporate stores in the US and Canada, as well as select franchise locations. They’ll be installing Blu-ray kiosks in over 5,000 stores. The kiosks feature a 42″ HDTV and a PS3 … Continue reading →

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Netflix To Drop HD DVD, Best Buy To Push Blu-ray, HD DVD To Weep Quietly

Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 by MegaZone

HD DVD got two heaping scoops of bad news today. One wonders how long Toshiba and the rest of the HD DVD camp will maintain their “Everything going remarkably well!” delusional stance. Hey, HD DVD, to quote: “No you’re not, … Continue reading →

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