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Blockbuster MediaPoint video-on-demand box announced

Chris Davies, Nov 25th 2008 Discuss [0]

Blockbuster have announced their on-demand set-top box, the MediaPoint, using 2Wire's streaming video player. The MediaPoint box itself will be offered "free" to anyone who buys the $99 package "25 first-run movies, TV shows, foreign or classic films" in advance; individual titles cost $1.99 each after that. Read The Full Story

Blockbuster announces set-top box plans

Brenda Stokes, Nov 10th 2008 Discuss [1]

Although just a rumor before, we can now confirm that Blockbuster will be building a set-top box that can stream movies to your TV in digital format. In fact, if all goes well, we can expect a release date sometime in the holiday season, which is swiftly approaching. Read The Full Story

Blockbuster begins Movielink trial in run-up to August launch

Chris Davies, Jul 24th 2008 Discuss [0]

Blockbuster has begun small-scale trials of their online movie rental service, using the Movielink video-download technology the acquired last year. Starting this week, 500 beta testers have been invited to start using the service; the company will charge $2 per rental and $8 per full movie purchase. Read The Full Story

Blockbuster offers to buy Circuit City for $1 billion

James Allan Brady, Apr 14th 2008 Discuss [1]

The actual price would be somewhere between 1 and 1.3 billion dollars, but that’s still a lot of coin. Both companies are suffering, and both companies could probably use the boost that this would offer to each of them so it’s a wonder why Circuit City has been sitting on its hands with this offer since February 17th. Read The Full Story

SlashGear Week in Review – April 7th through April 13th

James Allan Brady, Apr 13th 2008 Discuss [0]

This was a long week with no major events occurring, but there were some pretty big announcements. For starters we have a new BitTorrent Set Top Box from Myka, no more will you have to waste power by leaving your entire computer running all night just to get the latest screener from FXG or aXXo, and this little set top box will do it for you and then play it right from its hard drive for added ease. Then there were rumors abound of Blockbuster potentially putting out a new Set Top Box to push their movies, TV Shows, and other content out to. Read The Full Story

Blockbuster working on Set-Top Box – no more driving to the movie store

James Allan Brady, Apr 11th 2008 Discuss [0]

There are tons of rumors flying around that are substantiated by little more than the fact that someone wrote them, that Blockbuster is working a new Set-Top Box to push movies out to. Some are calling it an Apple TV competitor, but I highly doubt it will be. Read The Full Story