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Netflix vs. Blockbuster Revisited
Thomas Hawk writes "Exactly one year ago at thomashawk.com Davis Freeberg debated Wall Street analyst Michael Pachter regarding the future of the online DVD rental world. Freeberg maintained that Netflix was the clear and obvious choice for a winner while Pachter predicted that in the next 12 months Netflix would significantly underperform Blockbuster. Now another look one year later at the competitive landscape in the DVD market. Pachter is nice enough to continue the conversation and even admits in hindsight that he made a mistake regarding his prediction on Netflix vs. Blockbuster for the year past -- but Pachter still maintains that Blockbuster has the upper hand over Netflix in the coming year ahead. Freeberg, of course, thinks he's wrong once again and that Netflix will continue to dominate as the leader of this market. "
Hot chicks at the counter?
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12 months later ... Nothing's changed. One person thinks their vision is still right. The other still thinks their's is right.
It's like watching a soap opera. I'll be sure to tune again another year from now to find out, yet again, that nothing has changed, except that one has fallen down an elevator shaft while experiencing menopause, and the other will have an illegimate child being held for ransom by their estranged spouse on an abondonded oil platform in the Atlantic Ocean.
As well as helpful librarians who will point out the difference between "here" and "hear"
Monstar L
Oh my GOD! The ultimate in inconvenience!
you visit the web page,
Great Satan's Firey Balls! That must require the use of at least three muscles to move the pointer and click the link! Does Blockbuster offer health insurance?
print it out, pick it up from the printer,
Jesus Tap Danching Christ On A Cracker! Those foul villans! They make you trek all the way to the printer? Do they subsidize the required team of Sherpas and ruggedized GPS navigation equipment?
then have to remember to bring the coupon when you go to the store.
Wow! What does Blockbuster think? That we have highly evolved brains with complex memory capabilities? Those fools! Thos bloody, viscious fools!
Netflix is loaning me Babylon 5. That is all that matters. All inconviences are trivial. They could require me to punch 12 Blockbuster users in the face before shipping me a disc and I would still use their services.
"What's blockbuster got to top that?"
Edited movies, no "adult content", and masssive contibutions to right-wing organizations.
"But this one goes to 11!"