TECH LAB Viewing video's future By Hiawatha Bray June 5, 2008 There's still a Blockbuster video rental store in my neighborhood. But for how long? These days, you can rent DVDs from a Redbox vending machine in supermarkets for $1 a day, order them from your cable television company's pay-per-view service, and sign up for movies by mail from Blockbuster itself, or its archrival Netflix Inc. And then there's the Internet. Netflix and Apple Inc. offer gadgets that will bring movie downloads into the living room. I've been testing both devices - Apple TV and the Netflix Player by Roku Inc. While neither is perfect, they leave little doubt that Blockbuster's woes are sure to get worse. ... http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2008/06/05/viewing_videos_future/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.