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When ScottW left a comment on The Blockbuster Netflix war continues saying that it'll all change when we start downloading movies I figured, yeah, won't that be cool. But I didn't really believe it would happen any time soon. I haven't seen my internet connection get faster for 5 years. What was cutting edge back then - 5mb - ...

I've posted about the ups and downs of Blockbuster before. This morning Mike points us to the latest pundit who says that Blockbuster will die within 2 years. I can't refute his findings, and if true it's pretty sad. Everyone needs competition, and I'm sure it's done something to keep Netflix honest. Remember throttling? ...

I'm just going to get this over quickly cos I'm pissed off. Last week I rented a movie and it wouldn't play - my DVD player wouldn't even recognize there was a DVD. So I took it back to my local store, and reported online that the DVD was unplayable. Cool, normally they send me a replacement ASAP, and this time was no different - ...

I'm looking forward to seeing how this pans out - most people I've read seems to say that Netflix rules, Blockbuster drools. I disagree (and I'm not alone) Blockbuster's recent (and well overdue) improvement to their service should kill Netflix, all things being equal. The interesting part is always that it's not the ...

Community Server 2.1 was released yesterday, but I didn't have the energy to blog about it. A night in front of the telly usually sounds better than it is in practice though, and the latest movie from Blockbuster Online, "Ultraviolet" was seriously bad. Still, the eye candy and lack of energy made me watch almost 45 minutes before ...

Farewell, fair cruelty. For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night. I couldn't have said it better myself William. I was throttled big-time by Netflix. I had a dozen movies in my queue for 6 months that never arrived. I don't care about their reasons or the fairness of throttling. ...