Posts Tagged ‘ digital movie downloads ’

Blockbuster To Test Stupid Idea You Know Is Going To Fail

May 31st, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Movie Store, Digital Video Downloads, Video, iPods & Portable Media Players

Blockbuster unveiled a prototype of an in-store kiosk for downloading movies at its annual meeting on Wednesday, part of its plan to transform into more than just a DVD rental chain.
The kiosk prototype, which will begin testing within the next three weeks, was developed by NCR Corp. For the pilot launch, the kiosks will be [...]



More Movies Coming To iTunes Sooner

May 1st, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Movie Store, Digital Video Downloads, Video

According to a Hollywood Reporter report - Apple’s iTunes store will be getting more movies and getting them sooner.
Apple is expected to announce today that it has struck a deal with a wide array of movie studios to sell new releases at its iTunes Store. The move would come as many bricks & morter options [...]



Apple’s iTunes Slowly Doing To The Movie Industry What It Did To The Music Industry

Mar 10th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Computer Hardware, Digital Movie Store, Digital Music, Digital Video Downloads, Internet TV, Video

Much as the movie industry would like to avoid having Apple becoming the dominant digital vendor for digital movies as it has in the world of digital music, Apple is doing it anyway.
While the movie and television industry experiments with a bunch of incompatible standards and technologies, Apple has been inexorably putting together a video [...]