AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

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Depending on how you look at it, they’re either doubling down on brick and mortar or waving the white flag on their core business… Video rental chain Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) says it has made a $6 per share all-cash buyout offer for electronics retailer Circuit City, but that its efforts heretofore have been rebuffed. The [...]

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The Hollywood Reporter
Apple TV is getting some competition from Blockbuster.
The home video giant is developing a set-top device for streaming films directly to TV sets and is expected to announce the offering sometime this month.
Blockbuster declined comment, but a spokeswoman for the company said: “We’re talking to numerous companies and vendors about products, services, alliances [...]

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Video retailer Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI), in the middle of a big reorg of its offline rental business, is working on a set-top device for streaming films directly to TV sets, similar to what Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) announced at CES this year with LG Electronics (SEO: 066570). The announcement is expected to come this month, reports [...]

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The Taste of Others - Film in Focus
If pressed, Joe Konstan will admit that he watches “fewer than two movies a year.” Yet Konstan has spent more than a decade creating software that attempts to figure out your taste in movies and suggest what you might want to watch next.
Konstan, a professor at the University [...]

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Neither Blockbuster Nor Netflix Inspires Confidence - Seekig Alpha
I still have my ten foot pole out, and it is NOT pointed towards the movie rental industry. Starting with Blockbuster (BBI), I had zero confidence in its ability to execute on a compelling online Web 3.0 strategy. Blockbuster’s past efforts to battle competitor Netflix (NFLX) [...]

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Say goodbye to Blockbuster - CNet

It looks like the bottom has finally fallen out of Blockbuster. After numerous failed attempts at attracting new customers, the company is finally spiraling out of control.
Sad as it is, the end is near for Blockbuster, and all that pressure it has been placing on Netflix will be lifted.
And in [...]

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