Blockbuster Announces Set-top Box for Movie Downloads
You've probably notice that we here at NAV are big fans of the Roku Netflix Player. Now it appears that Blockbuster is jumping into the set-top box fray. According to HomeMediaMagazine.com:
Blockbuster is planning to bow for the holidays a set-top box that would deliver movies on demand from its Movielink download service. The Dallas-based DVD rental chain next year also will bow a Blockbuster-branded widget on Intel-manufactured chips imbedded in IPTV monitors.
Chairman and CEO Jim Keyes, who made the announcement Nov. 6 during a call with investors, offered no additional information on the set-top box, including manufacturer, price and availability.
Analyst Edward Woo with Wedbush Morgan Securities in Los Angeles said the set-top box device sounded ambitious, but wondered how consumers under pressure from the current economic downturn would receive it.
As exciting as it will be to see what Blockbuster offers, we're confident it won't come close to competing with Netflix. We found an article entitled Blockbuster's Set-Top Box Will Flop at Mashable.com that we believe lines up with our views pretty well on the subject. Be sure to check the article out.
At HomeMediaMagazine.com
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Posted by William Hungerford at November 10, 2008 7:59 AM
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