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The Blockbuster Box? No, thank you, but...

Posted on April 11, 2008

This Ars article states the obvious, that we don't need another proprietary STB for a single service online video provider. If you haven't seen the gravestones littering the proprietary STB service graveyard, some of the names of the dearly departed include Akimbo's box and Moviebeam's among others. And while I think Apple TV and Vudu still have a good shot, they are succeed or fail because I think their visions do go beyond a movie service in a box, and also because their solutions are either best of class (Vudu) or leveraging a dominant digital media brand name/ service combo (Apple TV/iTune...

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