Blockbuster Announces Plan for In-Store Movie Download Kiosks
In a Bid to Defeat Movie Rental Rival Netflix, Blockbuster Announces Twist to Movie Downloads
Blockbuster, Inc., has a new plan coming out in June 2008 to keep consumers' allegiance from switching to rival movie rental company Netflix: If consumers want to download movies, they can; but they can only do it in Blockbuster stores.The move, announced yesterday, is part of a broader plan to re-invigorate lagging profits. Blockbuster, the aged movie rental company that has tried repeatedly to stop Internet-based rival Netflix from enroaching on its market share, has appeared to be
Blockbuster Announces Plan for In-Store Movie Download Kiosks
Date: May 29, 2008Dallas, TXUnited States of America
The download plan is actually kind of strange. According to Blockbuster's CEO's announcement at a corporate meeting, Blockbuster will be setting up kiosks in a select few of its stores. These kiosks will let Blockbuster consumers download movies onto portable movie players made by Archos. The catch, of course, is that consumers must not only own an Archos-manufacturerd portable movie player, but will also still have to drive to a physical Blockbuster location.
This seems counter-intuitive when compared to Blockbuster's main rival, Netflix. Netflix allows consumers to search a movie library online, request a movie, and have it delivered to their door (often by the next day). Blockbuster's move is also hardly revolutionary when compared to initiatives by Netflix to let customers download and stream movies to their TVs uses the Netflix Player hardware. Computer manufacturer Apple, Inc., meanwhile, lets users of their Apple TV box similar privileges: Movies can be searched, rented and watched within minutes just by using a wireless Internet connection and the Apple TV hardware connected to their TV.
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