Blockbuster getting out of the online DVD rental game?
Is Blockbuster getting ready to ditch out of the online DVD rental business? Hard as it is to imagine them simply abdicating the market to Netflix and Wal-Mart (and whoever else might be jumping in soon), there actually has been some talk about this lately, most of it inspired by the news that Blockbuster shareholder/Billionaire corporate raider Carl Icahn has been riding CEO John Antico for spending too much time and money on online DVD rentals at the expense of the chain's regular rental business (Icahn actually attempted to oust Antico during a shareholder meeting on Wednesday). Too bad they should be focusing their energies on the real online movie rental business, i.e. selling digital downloads and video-on-demand. It might take a few more years, but sooner or later the idea of delivering a movie through the mail is going to seem positively archaic.
[Via TechDirt]
