HP, Lite-On, Blockbuster Join Forces for Affordable HTPC?

[exfileme]

HP, Lite-On and Blockbuster are cooking up something taste for media hoarders.

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[hellwig]

This may also indicate that HP is gearing up for a stand-alone Blu-ray player with built-in Blockbuster Video access.

I find this most likely, yet it's only mentioned in one sentence in the closing paragraph. We have BluRay players and TVs that connect to Netflix. Why not players that connect to Blockbuster. HP does make more than just PCs and Printers you know. They also make calculators, and, um... yeah.

 

[maydaynomore]

They make TVs too. Had a HP Plasma TV (LG parts inside)... didn't last long. bought a Pnasonic and never looked back.

 

[kinggraves]

Blockbuster is a second banana to Netflix anyway, they've been playing catchup ever since their greedy business model was torn up by Netflix and Redbox's superior distribution.
The main thing that has pulled people into retail HTPCs is the hardware they couldn't find anywhere else, like cableCARD and speaker outputs (REAL speaker outputs, not RCA "computer" hookups). Unless Blockbuster's going to be doing something that isn't already being done elsewhere, they're going to need a better hook.

 

[razercultmember1]

www.tvshack.net thats free and better lol

 

[ravewulf]

Well what do you know, Blockbuster's not quite dead yet!

 

[Azriel4444]

Only thing in this article that actually interests me is the massive volume of Blu-ray drives ordered. Dvd needs to die and Blu-ray come down in price. Actually all Lo-def formats need to die.

 

[Gin Fushicho]

This makes me extremely curious.

 

[dEAne]

Seriously I don't like hp products I got lots hp products that fails and their support group were terrible. Well Lite-on products were good but blockbuster - I thought their gone!

 

[lauxenburg]

HP: Stay to making shitty desktops and the worlds worst notebooks
Lite-On: Don't spoil your reputation by being affiliated with HP
Blockbuster: .....Just sell some fucking DVDs or something