To better compete with Netflix, Blockbuster is dropping its late ...
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The movie-rental company said Tuesday it will drop late fees for games and movies starting Jan. 1 - a positive move as seen by customers at the Blockbuster on Westheimer in Montrose.
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Blockbuster Inc. is doing away with the annoying and expensive late fees that have long been the bane of forgetful and lazy video renters, the company said yesterday.
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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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LOS ANGELES  - To the joy of couch potatoes nationwide who resent rushing to the video store to return movies, video rental giant Blockbuster says it will do away with the dreaded late fees.
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Blockbuster continues to take baby steps away from Total Access.
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Netflix Inc will not cut its price for online DVD rentals to match lower fees set on Wednesday by rival Blockbuster Inc. (BBI.N: Quote, Profile, Research) in an escalating
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NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES  - Netflix Inc will not cutits price for online DVD rentals to match lower fees set onWednesday by rival Blockbuster Inc.  in an escalatingbattle for online subscribers, Netflix Chief Executive ReedHastings said.
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Desperately trying to mollify its restive customers, Blockbuster Inc. said yesterday that it plans to effectively eliminate late fees on game and movie rentals, starting Jan. 1.
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Online movie rental service Netflix Inc. reported Monday that it lowered its monthly rental fee by $4 in what is heating up to be a price war with video rental giant Blockbuster Inc.
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NEW YORK : Blockbuster, the leading US video rental chain, made a bid to swallow rival Hollywood Entertainment spotlighting the sector facing tough times due to emerging technology.
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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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The online DVD rental price wars have been heating up quite a bit over the last year. NetFlix had a corner on the market that they practically created, but Wal-Mart and Blockbuster jumped into the fray, intent
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Blockbuster Inc. , the No. 1 U.S. video rental chain, reported lower quarterly profit on Tuesday due to store closures and higher costs associated with growing its online business.
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Blockbuster Inc. BBI.N on Tuesday  said it would eliminate late fees on movies and games in the  latest attempt to jump-start a rental business being hammered  by competition ranging from online companies to discount  retailer Wal-Mart.
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They are running for the hills but the end of the trail is Little Big Horn, where Custer made his last stand, and lost his life. Of course the Indians didn't do too well either. AP: "Girding for a potential threat from Apple Inc., online DVD rental service Netflix Inc. is lifting its limits on how long most subscribers can watch movies and television shows over high-speed Internet connections." Please oh Netflix strategy gods, get a copy of Marketing Warfare and read it. Netflix owns what used to be a great hill, for some it might still be one, the movies-by-mail hill. They obviously feel they need to be in the Internet movie business, and in that they have a huge head start that they aren't using. They are being too damned fair to their competitors.  Give the users the ability to grant other sites access to their movie ratings. Build Netflix into the social network of movies. You're already there, but you need to make every other social network connect up to Netflix. You need to be the hub for movie-watching on the net. You're lucky that so far that's what you are. But soon you will have to fight for that too, and then it will be too late to try to force your competitors to connect to your site. They will have data that you want. Then the nature of the negotiating will change. Right now you have the data. Use that power! Make the users everyone think of Netflix as the place on the Net for Flix.
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Blockbuster Inc. BBI.N on Wednesday  posted a quarterly profit well below analysts' estimates even  before $1.5 billion in one-time charges, as it faced falling  movie rental demand and higher costs to counter competition.
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Facing increasing pressure from its competitor, Netflix said Sunday that it will lower the price of several of its rental plans by $1 in order to match the current pricing scheme used by Blockbuster.