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Blockbuster Revamping
Barry Willis  |  Nov 03, 2002  | 

DVD has done more than change the way people watch movies at home. It's also changed their rental habits. The format is so superior to VHS tape, and so affordable, that many movie fans are choosing to buy rather than rent.

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Blockbuster Revamping Inventory
 |  Sep 23, 2001  | 

<A HREF="http://www.blockbuster.com">Blockbuster</A>, the world's biggest video rental chain, is coming to grips with the swelling popularity of DVD by revamping its inventory.

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Blockbuster Says No to HD DVD
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 18, 2007  | 
Blockbuster Entertainment has picked a winner in the in the struggle of the high-def discs, choosing Blu-ray over HD DVD. Could this be the decisive moment in the format war?
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Blockbuster Stores Sticking Around
SV Staff  |  Sep 24, 2008  | 
We go on and on about digital downloads, video-on-demand, and even mail-order movie delivery. Let's face it, there's lots to talk about there. It's easy to forget that your neighborhood Blockbuster stores are still around, and still account for...
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Blockbuster streaming coming to some Samsung BD players and HDTVs
SV Staff  |  Jul 14, 2009  | 
There has been a lot of talk lately about all the various boxes that now stream Netflix's on-demand service, but Blockbuster is apparently eager to remind us that big red isn't the only game in town. Starting in the fall, owners of certain...
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Blockbuster Struggles for Survival
Mark Fleischmann  |  Dec 06, 2007  | 
Blockbuster is taking serious punches and hanging on the ropes. First one of the two stores in my neighborhood closed (always a bad sign). Then came the announcement that earnings had slid from $5.5 billion in 2006 to $1.2 billion in the first three quarters of this year--ouch. Now along comes CEO Jim Keynes with a rescue plan.
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Blockbuster to close 960 stores by end of 2010
SV Staff  |  Sep 16, 2009  | 
Talking about the economy is like talking about the weather at this point. It's chit-chat, conversation padding that everyone knows about. It's also the reason Blockbuster is closing almost a thousand stores by the end of next year. According to...
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Blockbuster to get delisted from NYSE
SV Staff  |  Jul 05, 2010  | 
This has been a long time coming, but it's finally happening. Blockbuster is getting delisted from the New York Stock Exchange. According to Engadget, Blockbuster will be forced to delist from the NYSE after a failed attempt to split its stocks. ...
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Blockbuster to Go Full Throttle with DVD
 |  Oct 03, 1999  | 

DVD is finally getting the endorsement it deserves. On Monday, September 27, <A HREF="http://www.blockbuster.com/video">Blockbuster Video</A> announced an aggressive plan to bring the format to 3800 domestic rental locations and 1000 foreign stores by the end of the year. DVDs currently enjoy shelf space in only 900 of Blockbuster's 6600 outlets.

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Blockbuster to Take Video Sales and Rentals Online
Barry Willis  |  Oct 24, 1999  | 

The world's number-one video rental business will join the Internet gold rush early next year. <A HREF="http://www.blockbuster.com/">Blockbuster Video</A> announced October 20 that it will relaunch its website in November with sales of new and used VHS tapes and DVDs. Video rentals will be available online sometime in the second quarter of next year, company executives said.

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Blockbuster Tries New Kiosk Pricing
Mark Fleischmann  |  Dec 09, 2010  | 
Blockbuster isn't the first name you may think of in connection with video rental kiosks. Its name is on only 900 of them, as opposed to 25,000 for Redbox. But Blockbuster and its kiosk partner NCR are trying some new moves with two titles, Inception and Knight and Day, hoping to attract new customers.
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Blockbuster Unveils Online/In-Store Rental Program, Will Offer High-Def Discs
 |  Nov 05, 2006  | 

Blockbuster Video this week announced two significant upgrades to its rental programs. First, Blockbuster Online users are now allowed to return movies either through the mail or into a Blockbuster store. The "Total Access" service includes one free in-store rental per month, but customers are awarded an additional free in-store rental for each movie returned to a Blockbuster store.

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Blockbuster Via TiVo Goes Live
user  |  Oct 21, 2009  | 
Remember when we first reported on the partnership of Blockbuster and TiVo? The service went live this week.
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Blockbuster Wants Your Netflix Flaps
 |  Feb 22, 2007  |  First Published: Feb 23, 2007  | 

Blockbuster has a promotion that it apparently thinks is so good that it's worth doing twice. Last Sunday through Wednesday current Netflix subscribers that brought in the tear away flaps from a Netlfix movie rental envelope were given a free movie rental at Blockbuster. According the AP story on the promo, this is the second time Blockbuster has run this offer, the first being a two week stint in the Dallas area last December.

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Blockbuster Will ID Terrorist Fare
Barry Willis  |  Sep 30, 2001  | 

<A HREF="http://www.blockbuster.com">Blockbuster</A>, the world's largest video rental chain, will label video games and movies with terrorist themes, company executives announced September 26.

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