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Blockbuster CEO demonstrates kiosk at annual meeting

article published on 29 May, 2008

At this year's shareholder meeting, Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes showed off a new kiosk that will be introduced in 2 of the company's stores sometime in the next few weeks. The kiosk, built by NCR, is designed to transfer content directly to portable media players. ?We call it a test but it?s really a beta,? Keyes told reporters following the presentation. ?The goal is to bring all the pieces ... [ read the full article ]

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maryjayne
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_ 		29. May 2008 @ 12:29 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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I think I am going to rush out right now and buy an Archos Generation 4 right now.
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The BB kiosk may have worked if they would have used a common transportation device like thumb drives.

I highly doubt people will be willing to adopt this idea if they have to purchase new equipment to use the service. Now if BB provided the equipment as part of the membership then that is a different story.

Looks like BB just put one foot into their grave.
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bhetrick
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_ 		29. May 2008 @ 16:07 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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Keyes noted that he's not happy with the amount of time required to transfer movies to the Archos player from their kiosks. He expects the next generation of kiosks to reduce transfer time from 2 minutes for a feature length movie to a mere 30 seconds.
I suppose a couple of minutes isn't bad. Heck, it takes longer than that standing in line to rent a movie. You can transfer a couple of movies in the same amount of time it takes the cashier to pull his right finger out of his nose and his left thumb out of his a$$.
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