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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE
AP Technology Writer
 
2 months ago

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Best Buy Co. is trying to nudge consumers away from its stores' DVD aisles by making it easier for them to rent and buy movies over high-speed Internet connections.


The largest U.S. retailer of consumer electronics is setting up its digital delivery service in partnership with CinemaNow, which has deals with the major movie studios.


The software making it possible to shop CinemaNow's video library will be included on all the Web-connected devices sold in Best Buy's more than 1,000 U.S. stores. That means consumers who buy flat-panel TVs, Blu-ray players, personal computers and mobile phones from Best Buy would be able to get downloads of videos the same day they are released on DVDs.


The alliance marks the latest step away from the DVD format. Consumers are getting more ways of finding home entertainment with just a few clicks instead of traveling to a video rental store or waiting for a disc to be delivered through the mail.


Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and DVD-by-mail pioneer Netflix Inc. all have been winning over consumers with their own digital delivery systems. Blockbuster Inc. also has a deal with CinemaNow that lets people rent movies over the Internet.


Netflix gave an indication of the growing popularity of new video-delivery methods in its earnings report last month. It said that 42 percent of its subscribers streamed at least 15 minutes of video through its Internet-viewing service during the last quarter, up from 22 percent at the same time last year.



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1. myLot reputation of 91/100. MarkieSparks7 (296)   2 months ago

I think this is kind of bull and just a greedy ploy to make more money for these companies. First off I think dvd is totally fine but no they want more and more money so they keep coming out with new tech so people buy it even though nothing was really wrong with what they had in the first place. I think dvds were a worthy upgrade from vhs tapes at least for ones you bought new for your own personal viewing because renting dvds suck because for some reason people can't seem to handle these things in any other way than that of a monkey hopped up on crystal meth because every time I would rent a dvd, it would be so scratched and covered with finger prints it wouldn't play right or at all unless I rented it early and made sure I was the first one to rent it. But anyway they come out with the dvds then after you get a huge collection of dvds and a dvd player to watch them on, they bring out blu ray and of course you can't play blu ray on a dvd player so you gotta upgrade. I think they just want you to rebuy the movies you already own on another format and the thing with this download business is it don't cost them anything to make packages or discs or anything and so they will just be reaping the profits ten fold because I'm pretty sure they won't be to cheap. I know they want to phase everything we use out and have us download as much as possible and it will probably no doubt happen because people are easily swayed. But I dunno, I just like having the actual product in my possession where I can look at it and touch and caress it lovingly and store it on my shelf in my limited space. I know they want to get rid of money so they don't have to make it any more and also then they can keep track of everything you do. Hopefully that won't happen because people will object because we don't need this big brother invasion of privacy in every single aspect of our lives.

 
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