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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Leonardo DiCrapio @ May 20th 2008 12:18PM
"but blockbuster is going after major exclusive deals to kill netflixes online service , which sucks because i wanna see some competition between the 2 and not see blockbuster murder netflix in the streaming rental game."
I believe most movies are locked up (as far as downloading) because of contracts with HBO, Showtime, Starz, etc. AFAIK, Blockbuster's only content deal was its purchase of MovieLink.
I have a Tivo Series 3 (with 250GB drive) with a wireless G network adapter. Even if I had a current Netflix account, I am going to be able to get HD content downloaded to my HD Tivo from Amazon UnBox for a fairly reasonable fee (and I will probably only watch downloaded rental movies per year if I am paying more than 99 cents for them). I will take that over a stream, which is almost certainly going to be of lesser quality (especially since I would be using the 802.11g wireless networking). And I don't have to pay $100 for an additional box (and use up one of the other three component inputs of my A/V receiver, which will have at least one of the other component vidoe inputs taken up by a Pioneer BDP-05FD Blu-Ray player by the end of August).