92 posts and columns on Blockbuster
QOTD: “This Is the End” of a Video-Rental Era
The last BLOCKBUSTER rental 11/9 Hawaii 11PM
— After announcing the closing of its last remaining 300 (of more than 9,000) brick-and-mortar stores, Blockbuster tweeted the poetically apt final in-store video rental — the James Franco/Seth Rogan apocalypse-pic “This Is the End”
Reed Hastings Has a Long Memory, Sharp Wit
Oh well. No one is right all the time.
— Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, on Facebook, linking to a 2005 MarketWatch story in which analyst Michael Pachter put a $3 price target on Netflix and said the company “continues to underestimate Blockbuster’s market position.”
Android-on-Windows Specialist BlueStacks Takes Aim at Console Gaming
Moving beyond the desktop, BlueStacks is launching GamePop — an Android-based console with a subscription game service.Dish’s Charlie Ergen on Ads, Wireless, Cord-Cutting, Culture and Blockbuster (Video)
Here’s the full video of Charlie Ergen at D: Dive Into Media.Voices