Dan Rayburn

Blockbuster Streaming Comes To TiVo, But Service Won't Reach Many Consumers

Combined, all of those devices add up, but not to a big number yet. In fact, it's very small.

Breakdown On The Number Of Broadband Enabled Devices Sold In The U.S
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Your basically saying this is the future, ok agreed, but you're not saying by when? It won't be two years from now. Even two years from now, the projections on how many of these devices will be sold is very small.

Breakdown Of U.S. Sales Numbers for Broadband Enabled Devices

Minutes is what matters, not number of videos. Lets say I said 1 million videos were downloaded. That does not tell you anything since you have no idea how long each video is and they all range in length. Minutes is the best way to do it, which is why Xbox gives it out that way. You're comparing songs on iTunes, which are nearly all the same length, to videos on Xbox which are all different in length. One has nothing to do with the other.

Blockbuster Still Lacks a Digital Media Strategy, Ten Years Later

I'll simply repeat myself again, I don't own any stock in Blockbuster, no shares or bonds. I don't have anything to gain financially from Blockbuster, Netflix or any other entertainment company. I know it's hard to believe, but someone can actually write about a company as a neutral person without having some sort of vested interest in the company.

Blockbuster Still Lacks a Digital Media Strategy, Ten Years Later

@sl62: This not about Blockbuster "conforming to my standards" or not being "digital enough for my taste" or even the "pace I want them to change" at. This is not about me, it's about the market.

The change in the market is not my "opinion", it's fact. Apple has now sold over 200 Million TV episodes via iTunes. Sold over 2M feature-length films via iTunes. Netflix got over 1 million subscribers to use the streaming service via the Xbox 360 in the first 3 months of it launching.

You say that "In my humble opinion, BBI is still a viable player in the space and will continue to be so for many years to come as they change with the industry." Yes, they are a viable player, but even you don't say "in the digital media arena".

No doubt I will be re-visiting this issue a year from now and I'll make you any bet that you want that Blockbuster won't be able to show us any viable, tangible, measurable result, of what you say their digital media strategy is.

Blockbuster Still Lacks a Digital Media Strategy, Ten Years Later

Since I am not a shareholder of Blockbuster, or any other company for that matter, and have no vested interest in them at all financially, I have nothing to "get over".

Anyone can ramble on with a response that includes no real data to back up their arguments, but the fact remains that Blockbuster has absolutely zero traction today for any kind of digital media strategy.