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Gadgetell (Free subscription) | yesterday
Section: Video , Content , Video Providers Blockbuster has taken the step and begin offering, still as a beta only service movie downloads and movie rentals. This new service marks the integration of the Movielink service which they purchased just about one year ago. Currently Blockbuster is offering around 5,000 movie and TV shows which can be either purchased or just rented. The movie pricing begins...
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Engadget HD (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Industry , Misc , Blu-ray , Other formats , Internet As Blockbuster flounders around in an attempt to determine what it really wants to be, we're seeing that it's finally taking advantage of that whole Movielink purchase from last year. A new download section on the company's website has gone live, encouraging XP / Vista users running Internet Explorer (feel alienated yet') to simply...
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ParisLemon (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
At some point I really need to do a mid-year look at my predictions from December of last year , because boy are they rolling in. The latest: 14) Blockbuster will make a last ditch effort to save itself via Movielink Blockbuster will come out with some outrageous deal trying to save itself from the Netflix/iTunes rental onslaught. It will fail. ...and that just happened .
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Best New Technology (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Blockbuster is finally utilizing their purchase of the video-download service, Movielink. It’s been almost a year, but they are finally beta testing video downloading among 500 of their Total Access customers. The move is aimed at a core group of customers who Blockbuster hopes will give them quality feedback on the service. Along with kiosks available in-store that will also offer direct downloads,...
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BetaNews (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Blockbuster's download-on-demand service based on Movielink is approaching readiness, as the company has pushed out a beta version to select Total Access members.
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The Boy Genius Report (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Come on Blockbuster, all the cool kids are doing it. Almost a year since announcing the acquisition of video download service Movielink, it looks like Blockbuster is finally getting ready to round out its portfolio with a download service of its own. No there still isn’t anything new with regards to the Blockbuster set top [...]
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Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Blockbuster ( NYSE: BBI ), which recently abandoned its foolish quest to buy Circuit City, is now on to the next thing, which it has been talking about for the last year: its digital re-invention. The company has a strong presence at Comic-Con going on this week in San Diego, and is also demo-ing its digital kiosks, reports Home Media magazine . It has talked about these kiosks before...they are being...
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VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
While company after company enter the digital movie download realm including former outsiders like Apple and Microsoft, the company once synonymous with movie rentals has been noticeably absent: Blockbuster. This was especially surprising since it bought movie download site Movielink nearly a year ago presumably to enter the fray. Now it finally is. Blockbuster has rolled [...]
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Zatz Not Funny! (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Since acquiring Movielink about a year ago, Blockbuster’s been relatively quiet with the property… The Movielink video download service has carried on in the interim. However, according to the Dallas News a rebranding under the Blockbuster name is nearly complete. A few hundred Total Access members have been provided beta access in a program that [...]
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Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Blockbuster may be planning in-store download kiosks, but their recent beta-testing of Movielink downloads seems like they're aiming for at-home downloads as well. They've picked 500 Total Access...
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SlashGear (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
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. The testers have been selected from the company’s Total Access members, and will be asked to provide...
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Nearly a year after purchasing the video-download firm Movielink, Dallas-based Blockbuster Inc. has integrated the service into its Web site and invited 500 customers to test it.Blockbuster selected these beta testers from the ranks of its Total Access members, both to thank them for their business and to mine their suggestions for improvements.The test will expand next week and keep expanding until...
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AfterDawn.com (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Samsung announced today the launch of its MediaLive add-on which eliminates the need for a set-top media hub while giving users direct access to movies from Vongo and MovieLink and other content. To use MediaLive you must have a Samsung HDTV from 2008 or later with CEC automation support. Besides the direct movies from MovieLink and Vongo, users get access to content from Fox Sports and Showtime TV...
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http://www.CelebrityVideoTube.com (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
Tonight We take a front-row look at sites that offer movie downloads onto mobile devices: Amazon Unbox, BitTorrent, CinemaNow, iTunes, Movielink, Vongo, and ZML. Read the full article here
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Information Week (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
We take a front-row look at sites that offer movie downloads onto mobile devices: Amazon Unbox, BitTorrent, CinemaNow, iTunes, Movielink, Vongo, and ZML.
