Now here’s a bit I hadn’t heard yet.  You know we’ve been tracking the decline of Blockbuster Video–special shoutout here to reader Gwen who’s been relentlessly backing Blockbuster throughout the tracking for its help getting Jericho back on screen (I personally hope they pull it off)–and now, we’ve got some new news of note from [...]

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 [...]

Now this is a chunk of news that should make Gamefly and every video store–brick and mortar video store, I mean–collapse into a screaming fit.  Seriously, this is “run out into the street, freak out, and kick puppies” news. Redbox wants to make a push into renting games, or so the word goes.  That’s right–the [...]

So I was reading about the adventures of a guy over at WalletPop, the website that gives you money-saving tips and suchlike when he starts talking about what we’ve been talking about here for weeks now, the Blockbuster DVD kiosk. And his initial use suggests there are several problems with it, specifically: limited selection, slow [...]

Oh man, who’s next?  McDonald’s?  Movie Gallery?  Eventually you’re not going to be able to leave your house without tripping over a DVD kiosk. But all those names aside, apparently, Best Buy has launched a couple of kiosks for dollar a day DVD rentals, as well as sales of games and videos. This approach frankly [...]