Blockbuster UK goes into administration
16 January 2013, 07:45 PM
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A big storage warehouse and an internet site seems to be the future, why can't they and others carry on like that? They wouldn't need to lose all their staff, could keep the merchandise etc ...
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16 January 2013, 07:54 PM
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I remember pondering, as a kid with a Commodore 64 in the eighties, when it played a short and crackly sample in a game that music could obviously be stored electonically and that at some point it would be available like that instead of records and tapes, as time went on it became more obvious, when I downloaded my first MP3 (Intergalactic by the Beastie Boys) in 1999 it seemed like it had already happened but nobody else had realised, the first portable MP3 players were of very low capacity but again, obvious where it was going.
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16 January 2013, 07:58 PM
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Not shocked at all. I'm not sure if anyone mentioned it, but all of the Canadian BB stores closed in 2010 / 2011, and quite a lot of the US ones in the same timeframe.
Rogers (cell phone carrier, home phone, tv and internet provider) had Rogers Video stores, basically their own kind of BB and those all closed last year.
It's pretty obvious it's due to On Demand services offered by the cable / satellite providers, and also the likes of Netflix. So companies not moving with the times.
I did have a BB account over here, but used it once or twice before I got an On Demand package with my tv supplier, this gave me free access to fairly new movies and I could rent new titles from them, same day they were on DVD, so why bother going to the store to pick up the DVD?
Rogers (cell phone carrier, home phone, tv and internet provider) had Rogers Video stores, basically their own kind of BB and those all closed last year.
It's pretty obvious it's due to On Demand services offered by the cable / satellite providers, and also the likes of Netflix. So companies not moving with the times.
I did have a BB account over here, but used it once or twice before I got an On Demand package with my tv supplier, this gave me free access to fairly new movies and I could rent new titles from them, same day they were on DVD, so why bother going to the store to pick up the DVD?
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