Blockbuster Canada in receivership

[Mazrim]

I go to Blockbuster regularly to rent blurays, since they're cheaper than renting the same movie on Video-On-Demand with Shaw, and higher quality.

[Cookie Monster]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

I can't believe that company is still around. Good on them, I guess. I would have thought Netflix and other online services would have crushed them by now.

Can you rent The Green Hornet on 3D Blu-ray? Thought not. Plus Netflix doesn't ship you yummy COOKIES!

[Mad Mel]

Originally Posted by Sr. Mints

I don't think disc media is going anywhere while we have bandwidth limitations and caps imposed by ISPs.

I suspect competition will take care of that issue over time. As streaming media becomes more and more the norm, the ISP with the best deal will become the ISP of choice, and they will compete for that business. Here in Oz, it's the opposite chain of events occurring. Plans were / are capped by the big telcos like Shaw is doing in Canada, but recently some smaller ISPs have been popping out far better deals than were ever available before. For example, I can get a $60 plan from TPG which is phone + unlimited ADSL 2+ (20,000 mb/s). I think you'll see a backtracking of the restrictive & expensive cap trend in the next few years - consumers will demand large bandwidth, and somebody will be willing to price it well enough to get their business.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by Mad Mel

I suspect competition will take care of that issue over time. As streaming media becomes more and more the norm, the ISP with the best deal will become the ISP of choice, and they will compete for that business. Here in Oz, it's the opposite chain of events occurring. Plans were / are capped by the big telcos like Shaw is doing in Canada, but recently some smaller ISPs have been popping out far better deals than were ever available before. For example, I can get a $60 plan from TPG which is phone + unlimited ADSL 2+ (20,000 mb/s). I think you'll see a backtracking of the restrictive & expensive cap trend in the next few years - consumers will demand large bandwidth, and somebody will be willing to price it well enough to get their business.

The problem is with the CRTC and Canadian legislation and all the brohauha that was going on a few months back. The smaller ISPs have to lease their internet from the providers who control the infrastructure and the new legislation would have forced them to use mandatory UBB as well.