Following in the footsteps of contender Netflix, Blockbuster has announced a partnership with TiVo that digitally brings its flick library to consumers with televisions and TiVo digital video recorders. The deal will be elbow to about 800,000 TiVo consumers who also have a broadband connection. But different the TiVo/Netflix deal, some 4,000 Blockbuster stores will supply TiVo DVR machines -- as well as on the Blockbuster Web site. Anywhere from 5,000 to 10,000 Blockbuster titles will be available, with just out well-received titles prosperous for $3.99 for a 24-hour basis.
Other movies will be within reach from $1.99 to $3.99; the acquisition of movies is $14.99 to $19.99 each.
New releases will be on tap two to four weeks after they hit video stores. Blockbuster has been torture by Netflix, the big mail-order DVD rental business, in modern years. In the fourth lodge of 2008, Netflix rang up its best monetary results ever. In turn, Blockbuster started up its own mail-order DVD rental business. In summing-up to Blockbuster and Netflix, TiVo has a digital library deal with Amazon.
Netflix also offers talkie streaming through Xbox prey consoles, and Internet-capable Blu-ray players from LG and Samsung, as well as on the Roku digital video player. Blockbuster has digital deals with Internet moving picture provider Movielink, video-on-demand technology in Vizio televisions and a media sportsman by 2Wire. It plans to dilate into other consumer electronics devices. TiVo has 3.3 million subscribers, of which 1.6 million own stand-alone TiVo DVRs.
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