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The Future of Blockbuster Plan on the Move

By Daniel Lim on Friday, Jan 11th 2008 No Comments

Mark Cuban mentioned the future of movie rental business is having larger storage media and movies purchase at local electronic chain store or freight, forget about disc. Look like Blockbuster is doing it, Jim Keyes, the CEO of Blockbuster announced at CES 2008 about their plan to become entertainment convenience store by having an electronic downloadable kiosks at brick and mortar stores front. Media will be selling via flash device instead, at least that’s what they are working on it. But there’s more to the future of Blockbuster.

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CES 2008: Polaroid Freescape

By James Allan Brady on Monday, Jan 7th 2008 No Comments

Imagine combining the best of the TiVo and the best of a SlinBox all into one and you have a pretty good idea of what Polaroid is offering up with the Freescape. It’s a DVR, is a wirelessly streaming media hub, and it’s a place shifter, it is the ultimate in digital entertainment hardware.

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Archos TV+ is everything the Apple TV should have been

By James Allan Brady on Friday, Jan 4th 2008 3 Comments

I hate comparing one product to another, but the Archos set top box DVR is everything the Apple TV should have been and even has an equally slick appearance. Alright, lets start with the fact that it comes in your choice of 80 or 250 gigabyte capacities, and, since its made by Archos, I wouldn’t be surprised if some enterprising modders found a way to increase that.

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CES 2008: SanDisk Cruzer Titanium Plus comes with online backup service

By James Allan Brady on Wednesday, Jan 2nd 2008 1 Comment

So at CES this year SanDisk, BeInSync, Amazon, and BoomerangIt will all be coming together on a fairly impressive flash drive. Sure, you might see the flash drive as what it is physically, four gigabytes of flash storage, but thanks to Amazon you get 6 months free of an equal amount of online storage, and thanks to BeInSynce those four gigabytes on the flash drive and the 4GB online will be the same.

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BlackBerry gets blessed with ColorWare treatment

By James Allan Brady on Thursday, Dec 27th 2007 No Comments

For those of you not in the know, ColorWare is a company that was started roughly 7 years ago and the service they offer is that they will alter the color of a large number of consumer electronics ranging from computers, iPods, gaming systems, all the way up to BlackBerry’s now. They will officially begin offering the color-changed devices on the 31st of December.

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Comcast and TiVo partnership finally rolls out a product

By James Allan Brady on Wednesday, Dec 26th 2007 No Comments

So two years ago Comcast announced that some or all of their DVR boxes would be getting pimped by the people who make TiVo, well, someone finally got one of those boxes. To be more specific a Mr. Steve Garfield in Boston has gotten one of the boxes.

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Mozilla Weave backs up your FireFox data online

By James Allan Brady on Monday, Dec 24th 2007 2 Comments

Mozilla 270x105 Mozilla is stepping into the services world with their new web-based service Weave. Essentially it works with Firefox to save a copy of your bookmarks, passwords, preferences, stuff like that, all to the Mozilla servers for easy access, and easy sharing should you decide to do so.

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MobileTalk – Cheap international phone calls

By Christina Crouch on Thursday, Dec 20th 2007 No Comments

I’m sure many of you know at least one person who lives outside of the country. Maybe it’s a friend or maybe it’s a business connection. One way or another, if you’re making international calls you know they do not come cheap.

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Blockbuster dares you to drop them, no kidding.

By Daniel Lim on Wednesday, Dec 19th 2007 4 Comments

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I just received an official notice from Blockbuster Total Access that my next subscription fee will increase from $24.99 to $34.99. That’s the 2nd raise in a short 5 months!! $34.99 for 3 DVD out where Netflix going rate is only $16.99. I don’t know about you but that sucks big time and I canceled the subscription right away. GO NETFLIX.

To continue to bring you the unmatched convenience of both online and in-store DVD rentals, your monthly subscription fee will change from $24.99 to $34.99. This adjustment† will go into effect on your next billing cycle on or after December 27, 2007. The benefits of your subscription plan will remain the same.

The Movie Gallery is Out of Beam

By Daniel Lim on Monday, Dec 10th 2007 No Comments

Moviebeam, a Video On Demand services via local TV spectrum to OTA receiver is to show down the 2nd time. It was a failed project originally founded by Walt Disney sold for a big lost to the video rental chain Movie Gallery. The acquisition was a desperate attempt to utilize the same concept developing movie delivery system in digital platform. They paid $24 million for the acquisition cost, shelled out another 10 plus a 50 million cash infusion from investors for further implementation. All of that funding lasts about 9 months; they are informing current customer that the movie service will be out at December the 15th.

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