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Blockbuster Throws Hat into Movie Download Business

Posted by samzenpus on from the no-more-late-charges dept.

jtroutman writes "Stepping into the ring to compete with entities such as Amazon, CinemaNow and, of course, NetFlix, Blockbuster announced today the acquisition of Movielink, LLC. The deal had been scheduled to take place earlier this year, but was quashed amid trouble between the then CEO, John Antioco, and the Board of Directors."

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  1. Re:Oh, the Irony! by Professor_UNIX · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I subscribe to Netflix and I'd just be happy if they supported Macs instead of just Windows. As it is now I can't make any use of their service that I am apparently entitled to. I'm probably one of their model customers though since I've had the same set of 3 movies for 3 or 4 months now and I just forget to return them.

  2. Re:Oh, the Irony! by nsayer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Reed Hastings has said that they want to make Watch Now available on every screen possible, be it a PC, Mac, TV or mobile.

    A few months ago, Netflix did a demo at the Silverlight coming-out party. I suspect that once Silverlight supports the DRM crap that that's how they'll make their cross-platform thing happen.