Blockbuster killing late fees on videos, games
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TORONTO - Blockbuster Inc., the world&#39;s biggest video rental company, plans to eliminate late fees on movies and games in the new year.
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Blockbuster's new "no late fees"  policy is billed as a way to satisfy those customers who rent  movies or games but forget to return them on time.
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Blockbuster is offering lower-priced plans for online movie rentals to compete with Netflix.
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Blockbuster Inc said on Thursday it  will raise prices for its Total Access subscription plans and  lower prices for two DVD By Mail plans in an effort to pare  losses and boost subscribers.
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Blockbuster Inc. (BBI.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday said it would eliminate late fees on movies and games in the latest attempt to jump-start a rental business
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(InfoWorld) - BitTorrent rolled out a paid music and movie download service on Monday, leveraging its fast distribution system infamous for the massive piracy it facilitated when it debuted in 2001. The BitTorrent Entertainment Network -- launched with movies such as "Superman Returns," TV shows including "24" and PC games -- will be a new entrant challenging other download services such as Apple's iTunes Store and Amazon.com's Unbox. BitTorrent's service is stocked with 5,000 movies, TV shows, PC games and music. BitTorrent, based in San Francisco, hasÂ reached agreementsÂ with more than 35 entertainment companies including 20th Century Fox, Viacom's MTV Networks and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer StudiosÂ toÂ offer their content using its P-to-PÂ (peer-to-peer) technology. The technology uses information files called "torrents" that allows users with compatible client software to download files from other users' computers, reducing the infrastructure needed by a company to run a download service. Although widely used for illegal file sharing, companies have struggled to employ P-to-P for viable commercial businesses while also protecting digital content from piracy. BitTorrent will use digital rights management (DRM) technology from Microsoft Corp. that will prevent protected content from being redistributed on the Internet or played on a different PC, according to The New York Times. Content will play through Windows Media Player 11, Microsoft's multimedia application. Some content, however, will not have DRM, BitTorrent said. DRM is loathed by some users, but music and movie companies insist it's integral to protecting their content from illegal file trading. TV shows on BitTorrent are purchased for ownership, but movies will expire after either 30 days or 24 hours after a user starts watching. TV downloads will cost US$1.99, while movie rentals will range from $2.99 to $3.99. By comparison, TV shows cost $1.99 on Unbox, and movies -- that can be owned and played on two PCs and two portable music players -- cost up to $14.99. Similarly, the iTunes Store sells to own, with TV episodes priced at $1.99 and movies ranging from $9.99 to $14.99. The download service puts BitTorrent, founded as a company in 2004, in good standing after music and movie industry trade groups sought to cripple it. Under pressure, in November 2005 BitTorrent removed links to torrents from its search engine that pointed to copyright content. However, illegal file sharing still flourishes using BitTorrent's technology. The company's co-founder, Bram Cohen, open sourced BitTorrent's software, and it has been incorporated into numerous different download clients. Also, search engines designed to find torrents linking to copyright material continue to operate despite efforts to shut them. Â
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Video rental chain Blockbuster Inc.  said on Wednesday it has settled a patent dispute with rival  Netflix Inc..
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Blockbuster Inc. introduced a new Internet-only DVD rental service on Tuesday priced below a similar Netflix Inc. plan, sending shares of Netflix down almost 8 percent as the online movie rental war heated up again.
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Blockbuster Inc. , the largest U.S. video rental chain, on Wednesday cut the price for its online rental service, undercutting its rivals in an escalating battle for online customers.
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By DAVID KOENIG DALLAS - Blockbuster Inc. is offering lower-priced plans for online movie rentals as it competes with Netflix Inc. in a market that it said could grow 43 percent this year.
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Blockbuster Inc. on Tuesday said it was  ending late fees on movies and games from Jan 1. as it battles  to reverse falling rental demand, and forecast operating income  would be flat in 2005.
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Blockbuster is raising prices for its Total Access service, which lets people rent DVDs by mail and in stores. It is also raising prices for some existing customers who use the service a lot.
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Blockbuster Inc., the largest US video-store chain, will stop charging late fees at its company-owned stores to try to stem three consecutive quarters of declining sales and fend off a challenge for customers from Netflix Inc.
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Blockbuster Inc., the nation&#39;s biggest movie-rental company, said yesterday that it will eliminate late fees on games and movies as of Jan. 1 - but if you keep them too long, you buy them.
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Blockbuster Inc. BBI.N on Wednesday  posted a $1.42 billion quarterly loss due to a charge, while  profit from its operations slid due to higher marketing costs,  falling rental demand and escalating competition.
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Blockbuster, the largest video store chain, cut the monthly price for online rentals for the second time this year to fend off competition from Netflix.
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Blockbuster's willing to up the ante for Hollywood Video.