Apparently Blu-ray sales aren't
increasing fast enough for everyone, in its ongoing plan to not pull a Circuit City,
Best Buy is reportedly in talks with
CinemaNow and other, unnamed, movie services about launching a
digital delivery arm as early as this summer. CinemaNow is well prepared to
set up online video stores for others, with Blockbuster (
bad example) and
Dell already on board.
Variety suggests Best Buy could market and sell Internet-connected TVs and set-top boxes that include CinemaNow access, with a shared revenue stream between the two, but nothing is final. Netflix has a hit on its hands with Watch Instantly so think it over, would you give an Insignia Blu-ray player or HDTV a second look if it could download movies?
posted Apr 17th 2009 6:31AM
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
daaper @ Apr 17th 2009 9:58AM
Gee, how about you quit marking BR up to $30+ per movie? Ever think that it might be the extremely prohibitive prices on movies that are keeping people from taking the plunge? I know I sure as hell wouldn't buy a BR from Best Buy at their prices...
Dan @ Apr 17th 2009 10:30AM
I care about quality, so no not interested.
Peter F @ Apr 17th 2009 12:00PM
RIP DIVX RIP Circuitcity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX_(Digital_Video_Express)
lferguson @ Apr 17th 2009 12:51PM
I'm learning that HD streaming movies aren't the same as Blu-ray. It isn't anything like it since they use compression and other tricks to say it's HD, but won't look as good as it would if you have a BR movie. No way are they piping 50GB of data through to you like you'd get if you bought that "marked up" $30 version of 300 or Incredible Hulk.
People will use it, Best Buy will profit, and since most people don't have a BD player they won't know or care about the difference in quality. They'll just oooooh and ahhhhh when they see the quality on the display televisions and keep walking.
Chance Stevens
Editor, http://www.tvlampsnbulbs.com
Dan @ Apr 17th 2009 4:20PM
Why do you compare the purchase price of a movie with the rental price of download crap?
For $20.00 bucks a month you can watch all the Blu-ray or standard definition DVD'S you want. Let’s compare apples to apples. And if you are going to buy a Blu-ray go to Amazon.com and save 30% or more.