Blockbuster could release its own movie set-top-box

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pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/homeentertainment/" rel="tag"Home Entertainment/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://homemediamagazine.com/news/blockbuster-launch-set-top-box-holidays-13836"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadgethd.com/media/2008/11/8-5-08-blockbuster-download.jpg" alt="" //abr //divWell, well -- what have we here? As Microsoft's a href="http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/10/29/hd-netflix-streaming-comes-to-xbox-360-first/"Xbox 360/a skyrockets up the list of most wanted movie set-top-boxes and units like the Roku Netflix Player a href="http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/11/03/rokus-netflix-player-handling-hd-content-by-the-end-of-the-yea/"hold the promise/a of incorporating HD downloads in the near future, along comes the flagging a href="http://www.engadgethd.com/tag/Blockbuster/"Blockbuster/a to put up a href="http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/05/blockbuster-tests-movie-download-service-dvd-rental-kiosks/"a mild fight/a. In a move that's half baffling and half expected, the DVD rental company is reportedly looking to pump out a a href="http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/04/ask-engadget-hd-which-movie-set-top-box-is-best/"movie STB/a of its own for the holiday season. That's according to CEO Jim Keyes, who said as much on a recent conference call with investors. Unfortunately, he passed along no other pertinent information whatsoever, though he did mention a "Blockbuster-branded widget on Intel-manufactured chips embedded in IPTV monitors" for next year. Good luck Blockbuster, you'll probably need it.br /br /[Via a href="http://newteevee.com/2008/11/08/blockbuster-launching-set-top-box-for-the-holidays/"NewTeeVee/a]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/10/blockbuster-could-release-its-own-movie-set-top-box/"Blockbuster could release its own movie set-top-box/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:12:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://homemediamagazine.com/news/blockbuster-launch-set-top-box-holidays-13836Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/10/blockbuster-could-release-its-own-movie-set-top-box/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1367305/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/10/blockbuster-could-release-its-own-movie-set-top-box/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/apa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/Nc0nFjT_35ViPRn3MMvmWEAWLKs/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/Nc0nFjT_35ViPRn3MMvmWEAWLKs/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=jjZWa52E"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=jjZWa52E" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=Bm4GG4D1"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=Bm4GG4D1" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/m_MbJy6fCLI" height="1" width="1"/