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For anyone preferring DVDs over Netflix’s much smaller ‘Watch Instantly’ collection, you’ve just been given two more reasons to choose Blockbuster.

Good: Several early apps reveal the real reason this device is a difference maker, at least in the longer term.  Our favorite examples are the NYT Editors’ Choice, NPR, Weather Channel, ESPN, and Apple iWork apps.  Each is so immersive it’s easy to forget there ever was a web, a mouse, or a windowed interface, [...]

Get ready.  Here’s a selection from a survey Netflix is sending around to customers: “Imagine that Netflix offers its subscribers the ability to instantly watch movies & TV episodes on their iPhone. The selection availability to instantly watch includes some new releases, lots of classics and TV episodes. There are no advertisements or trailers, and [...]

Twenty bucks says Steve Jobs is a big part of this one.  We’ll know when Apple shares their plans for the future of media either later this month or later this year. via Disney renegotiating Starz deal, might pull movies from Netflix streaming — Engadget.

I’m a demographics hound, so this is one I really love and I think you’ll find it very interesting as well – particularly if you live or around one of the cities examined.  Looking at movie demand in neighborhoods throughout your hometown reveals a lot. This is a great statement of the power of demogs. [...]

Kinda hard to beat the advantage Netflix has: embedded in TVs and media centers from just about everyone.  Another reason 2010 should reveal a lot about how we’re going to consume video for the next ten years. Forget TV Everywhere, How About Netflix Everywhere?

Personally I think this is crap, and it wouldn’t have been perpetrated on Netflix’s customers if anyone had actually stepped up to compete against them by now.  Blockbuster, are you listening? I’m not a big fan of the Blockbuster by mail service – there are too many blatant examples of its also-ran status status to [...]

The early year acquisitions have begun.  This one says a lot about where Flixster sees the movie review business going.  They’re well connected to Facebook and the iPhone, so this is a great way to tie up the pro reviewers alongside us couch reviewers and tie in more closely with Netflix.  Great play if you [...]