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Yeah, Blockbuster Is Pretty Much F*#$%$
Back in the day there used to be these things called VHS tapes. They used to cost a lot of money — so there were these places you could go to rent them. The last surviving relic of this bygone era,...
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Streaming Movies: Best Buy Preparing For A World Without DVDs
Best Buy announced a “a Best Buy-branded offering, available starting early next year,” that will stream “first-run DVDs” online directly to consumers, says the NYT Bits Blog. “We’re going into this...
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DVD Price War: Harry Potter, Star Trek For $10
Walmart announced yesterday that it will be slashing prices to below wholesale on 10 of the most popular DVDs that will be released soon, says the LA Times. Target announced that it will be matching...
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Netflix Agrees To Delay Warner Bros. New DVDs For 28 Days
Netflix has agreed to terms with Warner Bros. that will delay rentals of new DVD releases for 28 days. Warner Bros. has unilaterally imposed the same restriction on Redbox — and those negotiations were...
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Netflix Is Mysteriously Down And Bored People Are Increasingly Bored
Are you kinda bored? Want to watch movies on Netflix’s website. Nope. Can’t. It’s mysteriously down. Apparently, the site started barfing up errors messages early Friday evening. As of this posting,...
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Make Sure Someone Hasn't Punched Your Redbox Kiosk Before Reserving A DVD
Reader G is a little ticked off at Redbox because he reserved a new release using Redbox.com, headed over to the kiosk to pick it up and found that some angry person had smashed the touchscreen. No big...
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Redbox Randomly Charges $1.25?
Reader A. says Redbox randomly tried to charge him $1.25 for a $1 normal DVD rental. What’s up with that? A. says: Last week on my way back from the mall, I decided to stop over at a Walgreen’s Redbox...
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Netflix "Watch It Now" Service Gets Access To Paramount, Lionsgate and MGM
The NYT is reporting that Netflix has cut a deal with start-up pay-TV channel Epix that will give it exclusive rights to steam Paramount Pictures, Lionsgate and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films. What does...
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Time Warner CEO Is Talking $#!% About Netflix
Who isn’t scared of Netflix? Jeffrey L. Bewkes, the chief executive of Time Warner, that’s who. The NYT says that although Netflix has been a successful business partner to the major studios for the...
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Netflix Wants To Charge Extra For Multiple Video Streams, Swim In Piles Of Cash
Netflix was sitting around looking at its money when it realized that it didn’t quite have enough to do the whole Scrooge McDuck swimming maneuver, so the video giant has come up with an idea: “family...
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