Guys, I’m not the type to kick people when they’re down, but I’ve never heard a CEO sound so thoroughly depressed about his company’s chances in the marketplace as I’ve heard from Blockbuster CEO James Keyes. When you’ve got a CEO admitting, publicly, that the competition ate his lunch and busting out phrases like “Retailers [...]
Clearly Vizio sees something that we don’t, because they’ve just handed Blockbuster Video a big old helping hand in the form of Blockbuster enabled televisions. You know how Samsung was working with Netflix on offering up a line of television that instantly connected to Netflix via broadband? Well, now Vizio’s planning to do exactly that [...]
Folks, if there were only seventy four hundred arctic pumas or whatever left and their numbers suddenly collapsed to about thirty two hundred, you best believe that there’d be ecohippies having embolisms everywhere. They’d demand that something change, even if they weren’t a hundred percent sure exactly what should change. And that’s exactly what happened [...]
So Blockbuster’s trying to make a move on the streaming video market, and they’ve got a new ally. The crew out at ActiveVideo Networks is coming on board with Blockbuster to provide a platform by which web-based interface features can be linked to Blockbuster On Demand. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, so who knows [...]
