On the Technological Breakthrough Tuesday Before Thanksgiving, this news: Dallas-based Blockbuster has a set-top box it'd like to sell you for $99, through which you can beam into your home the latest and greatest in what passes for big-screen entertainment these days. Buy the OnDemand now, just in time for the holidays, and you get 25 movies -- which puts them at, what, $4 a pop? After that initial offer expires, they drop to .... dunno. Says the vague release this a.m., "After the initial 25 r
So, this is the future of Blockbuster -- as a seller of concert tickets? Which would make it, what, CD World? This morning comes the official word: The Dallas-based videotailer, whose set-top box is supposed to keep you out of the stores, is looking to bring folks back to the brick-and-mortars by teaming up with Live Nation. Blockbuster has signed a three-year deal that makes it "the exclusive physical retail ticket outlet for Live Nation Ticketing." Ducats won't be sold in all Blockbusters, onl
Is this smaller-sized store the future of Blockbuster?Blockbuster held is annual shareholders meeting yesterday, and the presentation was chock-a-block with sneak peeks at the Dallas company's future -- or, at the very least, its plans for the future. After the jump you'll find the complete 31-page presentation offered to shareholders, who were also treated with the video- and game-rental company's first TV and radio ad campaign since forever in which Jim Keyes and company will, at last, take on
