Apparently Blu-ray sales aren't
increasing fast enough for everyone, in its ongoing plan to not pull a Circuit City,
Best Buy is reportedly in talks with
CinemaNow and other, unnamed, movie services about launching a
digital delivery arm as early as this summer. CinemaNow is well prepared to
set up online video stores for others, with Blockbuster (
bad example) and
Dell already on board.
Variety suggests Best Buy could market and sell Internet-connected TVs and set-top boxes that include CinemaNow access, with a shared revenue stream between the two, but nothing is final. Netflix has a hit on its hands with Watch Instantly so think it over, would you give an Insignia Blu-ray player or HDTV a second look if it could download movies?
