By Allen Tsai | Mon Jan 19, 2009 4:57 am |
Blockbuster plans to expand its digital reach by delivering movies over the Internet through a variety of electronic devices, including cell phones.
The Dallas-based movie-rental company is expected to announce the partnership with Sonic Solutions to pipe more than 12,000 movies and TV shows to a variety of broadband-connected digital devices, including personal computers, cell phones, Internet-connected televisions and Blu-ray disc players.Blockbuster struck deals to make its online video service available on devices such as Microsoft's Xbox 360 game console, Blu-ray disc players and television sets. Netflix also offers its titles on TiVo digital video recorders. It took its first step to match the advances of Netflix in late November when it introduced a gadget that connects to television sets and temporarily saves video after it's downloaded over high-speed Internet connections. The rental business was more than $9 billion last year. Internet on-demand video remains a small slice, but it grew considerably over the past year, from $28.4 million in 2007 to $88.5 million in 2008. Blockbuster accounts for roughly 40 percent of the $5.5 billion store business, while Netflix has more than 70 percent of the $2.2 billion subscription-rental business.
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