| What do you expect? They only let Dish Subscribers take advantage of it.
I was actually interested in trying it out, but I'm not signing a 2 year contract with Dish Network to have the "privilege" to pay for the service. |
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join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD | Blockbuster? Isn't Blockbuster dead? How can it kill anything? |
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join:2002-08-27
Denton, TX
kudos:1 | said by pnh102:Isn't Blockbuster dead? How can it kill anything?
Thats what I thought, but one of the two Blockbuster locations here is some how still open. |
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| said by ilikeme:said by pnh102:Isn't Blockbuster dead? How can it kill anything?
Thats what I thought, but one of the two Blockbuster locations here is some how still open. They didn't get the memo. 
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join:2005-12-12
Fayetteville, NY
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| Blockbuster only for shipped discs I am a Dish customer and have been using this Blockbuster service only for DVDs and Blu-Rays shipped directly to my home.
In my experience I gave up on their streaming service way back at the beginning. The interface for locating and choosing movies was just horrible, especially after I was spoiled by Netflix's much cleaner and user-friendly interface.
If there were one area where Dish needed to spend money, it was in a significant overhaul of that interface.
Hopefully Dish keeps the disc-to-home service, because it is a viable alternative to Netflix's comparable offering. |
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join:2007-01-12
Phoenix, AZ | Kiosks not going away? I presume that means what few kiosks they have out and about would not be going away. It seems the only place I see them is Safeway. Redbox seems to be mandatory for all Circle Ks and Wallgreens in my area. |
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join:2011-04-20
Royal Oak, MI | Dish Customer I'm a Dish customer who has the BB@Home package and for me it's been pretty good. Not only do I get 21 extra channels, but I also get 1 disc out at a time. And since I live near a BBV store, I'm averaging 2 discs per week. Since BB@Home has a channel from Encore and a channel from Starz, I can get all of the shows/movies that Starz/Encore/Plex has available from On Demand and Dish Online without paying for a Starz or Encore package. All for $10 extra.
Now the cons. The streaming part of the package probably has one of the worst interfaces you could think of with not a lot of choices. And you have to be a Dish subscriber to even be able to get streaming because Blockbuster is basically the name for Dish Networks very weak On Demand option. And if you don't live near a BBV store, then you're only going to get one disc per week because of turn around times. Plus BB Online doesn't have anywhere near the selection of discs that Netflix has.
It's good for what it is. But it never could compete with Netflix. That's probably why Dish never made the entire package available to non-satellite subscribers in the first place. And now they've decided not to upgrade to directly compete with Netflix. I wonder if all of their legal disputes is making them leery of spending money they may not have in the near future? |
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| kiosks The best thing about Blockbuster was the kiosks but those were not even run by Blockbuster it was only a licensing deal. Dish should of just acquired them instead. |
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Re: What do you expect? why dont blockbuster try to get on huluplus tv!! |
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@optonline.net | reply to AZ_OGM
Re: Kiosks not going away? Retail kiosk business was started by NCR, and was recently sold to Redbox. Not sure how long the Blockbuster name will be used. |
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Re: Dish Customer I too am a Dish customer w/BB@home, and mogamer is right on all counts. |
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Re: kiosks Down here in South Florida all of the Publix supermarkets have replaced Blockbuster machines with Redbox's in the last month or so... |
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join:2011-04-20
Royal Oak, MI | said by flycuban:Down here in South Florida all of the Publix supermarkets have replaced Blockbuster machines with Redbox's in the last month or so...
That's because Redbox ended up buying all of those BB kiosks. |
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Re: Kiosks not going away? The only Blockbuster kiosk near me was replaced with a Redbox kiosk a month or 2 ago.
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Re: Blockbuster? Zombie Blockbuster!
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join:2011-11-22
Parker, CO | Misreading of the news I believe this recap misses what Ergen was saying. What he was saying is that he wanted to use the Blockbuster locations as retail distribution for a wireless data play. But, since the FCC has delayed his waivers, that he cannot bank on that occuring.
Now, I think this is all BS in any event. Charlie is a master poker player. He is setting up his excuse for selling the spectrum to ATT and/or Verizon the same as Cox and the other cable companies did. |
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join:2001-10-03
Lancaster, OH | Dish and the Darwin LOL, Dish was too stupid to know they couldn't use the Blockbuster name to create additional customers because the Blockbuster name is synonymous with "screw the customer". |
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join:2000-08-05
Mentor, OH
kudos:1
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| As a user of Dish's blockbuster service. It is ok.
There was no streaming at the level we were at. Sure we could goto Dishonline and stream, but we couldn't stream from Blockbuster. That would have cost extra.
So we got DVDs in the mail for 10 extra bucks a month. Which is fine.
Why?
Because with Dish/Blockbuster 10 Bucks a month got you video and games. I used to use gamefly for games only at 16 bucks a month. So by going Dish we saved 6 bucks.
IMO, they could have chaged a tad bit more, and opened access to Blockbusters streaming content. Then we might have killed out netflix account.
But they didn't so we didn't.
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Mentor, OH
kudos:1 Reviews:
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Re: Blockbuster only for shipped discs I agree. Though as a Dish/Blockbuster subscriber, we weren't allowed access to Blockbuster streams. Though we could goto www.dishonline.com and stream anything that we subscribed to through Dish. But all Dish online is, is a reskinned Hulu [or so it feels].
So all we get are DVDs and games from the Blockbuster mail service.
Before I was paying for gamefly/netflix. Gamefly is 16 bucks a month, long turn around time.
Now I get blockbuster/netflix. Blockbuster through dish 10 bucks a month, better turn around then gamefly and I can get movies or games.
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Donut
join:2005-06-27
Romulus, MI | Not to bad My sister has the service. She has the hopper and she can steam from that. She likes getting the Disks in the mail because she can drop them off at a blockbuster store and exchange them.
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