Amazon has the Amazon Unbox on Tivo service, and both Netflix and Apple recently announced online movie rental services, and eventually you will be able to see Joost and Babelgum programs on TV. All this point to a market crowded with new ways to get movies fast and cheap over the Internet Naturally, the incumbents [...]
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Comcast to set blazing Internet speeds, but is it a double-edged sword?
Comcast in 2008 will offer High Speed Internet with speeds as fast as 160 megabits per second, which is a massive increase from its current maximum of 16 mbps. This is in many ways in response to competition from local telco’s such as AT&T and Verizon that are provide high speed Internet access over fiber [...]
Blockbuster Goes Blu-ray
The battle for dominance in DVD formats made a big turn towards Blu-ray when Blockbuster, the leading US video rental chain, today chose the Blu-ray format over the HD DVD format. Based on results from carrying DVDs with both the Blu-ray and the HD DVD formats at 250 retail stores, where demand for Blu-ray was [...]
Blockbuster, Best Buy to offer online movie downloads
Apparently Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer had told industry analysts that Best Buy and Blockbuster are set to enter the growing movie download business during a conference call yesterday (see Studio CEO: Blockbuster, Best Buy to launch movie download services). While neither company has officially announced it, this is how Feltheimer spilled the bean “We have [...]
