For starters, why does Dish CEO Chalie Ergen want to own a crumbling chain of video stores?
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As smaller video stores collapsed over the years, Blockbuster had remained a stalwart presence in many mini malls.
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There also is speculation that the tape will quickly be reproduced and be available for rental in video stores.
That system has been falling apart as some studios put their movies on demand the same day they hit video stores.
The free launcher brings centralized access to apps, contacts, Facebook feeds and news, and for those so inclined, Amazon's app and video stores.
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Advertising on broadcast, subscription through cable, rentals at video stores, and on-demand movies in hotels acclimated viewers to the various consumption models long before the digital age.
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Travel agencies, booksellers, music shops and video stores have all bowed to the greater consumer benefit of speed, flexibility, low cost and deep personalization provided by the Internet.
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"We've seen some of the more aggressive independents looking to expand their businesses, " says Marty Graham, president of the pay-per-transaction division at Rentrak, which brokers revenue-sharing deals for independent video stores.
It's because in the old days, which was three or four years ago, not a thousand years ago, the video stores, namely Blockbuster, bought their videos depending on how many people came on an opening weekend.
The television industry succeeded in shutting down technological end-runs on this basis in the past including a service that allowed multiple hotel guests to watch programs delivered from a single bank of VHS players and video stores that provided viewing booths.
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Soon we were on Route 116 and out of Amherst proper, and this, too, was familiar the small brick ranch houses that housed the Asian grad students at the state university, and the student laundromats and the family-owned greengrocers and the tiny, poorly stocked nonchain video stores in which you couldn't ever find the movies you wanted.
When an unexpected event occurs, a press of the instant clip button captures the last 30 seconds of video and stores it as a video clip on the device.
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And the figure is likely to continue to grow as the bricks-and-mortar video game stores continue to disappear.
The business model differs from that of traditional video rental stores that typically let customers pick movies from an available physical library of titles.
Dropcam utilizes bank-level security to encrypt all video and stores it securely offsite in the cloud so users can rest assured that they are the only one with access their video.
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But on the Galaxy S 4, there are also two online video and music stores, two music and video players, two calendars and two browsers.
Investigators pored over surveillance video from retail stores and restaurants near the bombing site as well as video and photographs from citizens, news organizations and other sources, officials said.
That order is on hold--as are ones by Harrah's Casino, Starwood Hotels and IGT video-game stores.
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It can pause and rewind live streams like a digital video recorder and automatically stores favorite shows for easy playback.
For the month, according to new data from market research firm NPD Group, overall U.S. video game revenue at retail stores was down 5% from the same month last year.
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As wireless customers spend less money on plain-vanilla cellphone voice calls, carriers are betting that data and entertainment services like text messaging, over-the-air music stores, streaming video and mobile Web browsing will lead growth.
One of these services, video-on-demand, stores programming on a central server, where users can access it at the click of a remote.
Result: Blockbuster and Movie Gallery (which now owns Hollywood Video) together have closed nearly 800 stores out of 10, 000 over the last year and a half.
And it is ramping up the introduction of other products, with the Apple TV video-streaming gadget expected to reach stores in coming weeks, people familiar with the matter say.
In 2008, it partnered with Mayors Against Illegal Guns to create a video database of gun purchases at its stores and said it would trace any firearms bought from its stores that were later used in a crime.
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Over the weekend, Movie Gallery announced that they would shutter their remaining stores as the once proud Hollywood Video bites the dust.
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