In the history of Netflix, it’s business model and vision in the movie-rental industry was considerably different from that of their chief competitor – Blockbuster. The chief of retail video rental chain Blockbuster, John Antioco, on the other hand believed that video rental was a much more...
Later on in the year, Nintendo sued Blockbuster Entertainment, a rental service chain, for renting out Nintendo Entertainment System video games. It was subsequently settled out of court, though Nintendo would once again threaten the rental giant for photocopying Nintendo's game manuals and sending ...
Songs from musicals would spread easily as the pop music of the latter part of the 19th century.Actually, musical compositions were influenced by different musical genres that emerged in the 19th century. The live vaudeville-like shows had inspired the development of Broadway in New York, as the...
Now that Netflix has become the bread and butter of binge watching, despite a disappointing quarter, we took a look at how the streaming service evolved from the Blockbuster (RIP) of the digital age to the original content producing powerhouse that it is today. Worried Netflix has hit its...
Unique study in body language: “blockbuster video” of London CPJCE staff allegedly morally selling other people’s graves against the rulings of all the rabbis of Vilnius and of the planet. In fact, when the then chief rabbi of Lithuania, Rabbi Chaim Burshtein, spoke up in 2015, he was...
Japan’s Video Gaming Industry Focuses on Export Japan was an early originator of video gaming innovation. Even though today’s blockbuster games are mostly built in the United States and Europe, Japan continues to be a bastion of video gaming. But so far as its own place in video gaming ...
Seems like yesterday when the 80s gave us the rise of ESPN, Blockbuster video stores and hundreds of cable TV channels where the viewer presses the tethered remote and surfs to their delight. One of the shows that NBC rolled out in an expensive sports car was an idea that married MTV with...
In 1997, Netflix was founded. When Netflix began, though, it wasn't the streaming service we know today. Instead, it was a movie rental service that competed with video rental stores like Blockbuster and Hollywood Video (remember those?). Netflix subscribers made a list of movies and TV ...
But, like a Hollywood blockbuster, the story of the raid was itself fiction. In fact, in the face of mild questioning by the generally deferential press, every single aspect of the confusing and often contradictory story that was told to the public in those euphoric hours after Obama’s ...
To simplify my point, it appears a good deal of people have high hopes that virtual reality will become the next blockbuster computing platform. The technology already exists, and with the consumer version of the Oculus Rift VR headset slated to go on sale in late 2014 for under $300, the...