Blockbuster not buying netflix for 50mill is up there with brian dunkleman

[Silkk]

This. Hindsight is 20/20.



It's not so crazy that Blockbuster declined to buy Netflix but what is dumb as hell is that they didn't immediately copy what Netflix was doing as they started to really takeoff.

It makes more sense that as a brick and mortar national chain, the mail-order video/games model would only benefit you more as a known name in that space. Probably could have crushed Netflix out of existence.

Didn't netflix have the patent tho? I believe i read that

 

[L&HH]

Didn't netflix have the patent tho? I believe i read that

Patent for what? You can't patent a service

 

[Silkk]

Patent for what? You can't patent a service

 

[Egomaniacal1]

Didn't netflix have the patent tho? I believe i read that

They did get awarded a business model patent ....

http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2006/04/6528-2/

 

[MikelArteta]

Damn these stories are

The WOAT are wamu/JPM, blockbuster/netflix, and FOX selling starwars rights to george lucas for $20,000

The WOAT are wamu/JPM, blockbuster/netflix, and FOX selling starwars rights to george lucas for $20,000

 

[winb83]

This. Hindsight is 20/20.



It's not so crazy that Blockbuster declined to buy Netflix but what is dumb as hell is that they didn't immediately copy what Netflix was doing as they started to really takeoff.

It makes more sense that as a brick and mortar national chain, the mail-order video/games model would only benefit you more as a known name in that space. Probably could have crushed Netflix out of existence.

Blockbuster did try to copy it. They just failed at it. total access they called it. You could exchange the mail in movies at the store too. For years that was why I went with them over Netflix.

 

[newarkhiphop]

This. Hindsight is 20/20.



It's not so crazy that Blockbuster declined to buy Netflix but what is dumb as hell is that they didn't immediately copy what Netflix was doing as they started to really takeoff.

It makes more sense that as a brick and mortar national chain, the mail-order video/games model would only benefit you more as a known name in that space. Probably could have crushed Netflix out of existence.

Breh as early as 3 years ago me and @Liquid was telling dudes on SOHH that streaming and Netflix was the future, dudes was really arguing that Netflix streaming was gonna fail and that fukkin redbox was the future most of the people that run companies like blockbuster and BlackBerry are the same way, can't see the future for shyt even when it smacks them in the face

 

[HookersandIceCream]

Breh as early as 3 years ago me and @Liquid was telling dudes on SOHH that streaming and Netflix was the future, dudes was really arguing that Netflix streaming was gonna fail and that fukkin redbox was the future most of the people that run companies like blockbuster and BlackBerry are the same way, can't see the future for shyt even when it smacks them in the face

You ass hats were saying DD was the future
Redbox alone made yall look stupid

 

[Rekkapryde]

wow didn't know of this, epic all time failure

changed the landscape of entertainment forever

And that's why CEO's get fired.

 

[Rekkapryde]

FOX selling starwars rights to george lucas for $20,000

Details! Was it joint before this? 50/50 Fox/Lucas?

 

[L&HH]

Details! Was it joint before this? 50/50 Fox/Lucas?

From what I read, no studio was fukking with the Star Wars idea. Fox just liked some other movie Lucas did so much they just were like why not

 

[Rekkapryde]

From what I read, no studio was fukking with the Star Wars idea. Fox just liked some other movie Lucas did so much they just were like why not

So they gave the rights back to him for 20K?

 

[Spaceman Piff]

Movie vending machines, who would have thought. Such a simple yet effective idea. Blockbuster execs gotta be on suicide watch. Pretty much had an entire industry in the palm of their hands and fumbled it.

redbox is one of those things where you look at it like..



why the fukk didn't i think of that?

 

[AkaDemiK]

hindsight is a muthafukka

 

[newarkhiphop]

You ass hats were saying DD was the future
Redbox alone made yall look stupid

so redbox fukkin with Netflix now? And Yea we said both digital downloads and streaming was the future and all signs are still pointing towards that

lemme guess you was one of the dudes complaining you couldn't keep a collection of 1,000 disc to share with your boyfriend