Blockbuster App
Droidxgurl
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I was just wondering if anyone has taken the plunge and tried the Blockbuster App?  What were your thoughts?

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GeekGuy
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Droidxgurl wrote:

I was just wondering if anyone has taken the plunge and tried the Blockbuster App?  What were your thoughts?


There are a lot of grumblings on many forums about the lockbuster app.

 

I happen to like it, and I use it.  I think that the prices are a bit high, but I like the the app and the quality of the rented movies.

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droid-geek
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Wonder if their bankruptcy filing is going to have an impact on the application.  I know I would rather have NetFlix on it than blockbuster.  All I use blockbuster for is X-Box game rental because they are local.

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TheGreatOne
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Some other people were talking about the blockbuster app not working properly. It having problems. Altough that was a few months ago.Maybe things changed

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curtterp
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TheGreatOne wrote:

Some other people were talking about the blockbuster app not working properly. It having problems. Altough that was a few months ago.Maybe things changed


The problem with the blockbuster app on the X was the preloaded app needed to be updated. The Market didn't recognize it for updating, so you had to download the app from the market to update.

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galaxie500fb
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in my opinion putting blockbuster on the x was a dumb mistake. Rent at the same cost of a customer who has the ability to watch on their on tv set but you cant output the video from your phone through the hdmi cable to your own set. Your limited to watch it on your phone. lol. Netflix to me would have been the right way to go but unfortunately there isnt an app for that yet. blockbuster app + the recent bankruptcy filing = another soon to be unused app i cant delete from my phone.

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Droidxgurl
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galaxie500fb wrote:

in my opinion putting blockbuster on the x was a dumb mistake. Rent at the same cost of a customer who has the ability to watch on their on tv set but you cant output the video from your phone through the hdmi cable to your own set. Your limited to watch it on your phone. lol. Netflix to me would have been the right way to go but unfortunately there isnt an app for that yet. blockbuster app + the recent bankruptcy filing = another soon to be unused app i cant delete from my phone.


So I am assuming that when 2.2 comes out and provides flash to the X, we would then be able to accees our Netflix account and watchi movies that way, yeah?  With comcast, we have the ability to watch shows on our computers, so with flash, would this work on the phone as well??  

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galaxie500fb
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i may need to be corrected but i dont think 2.2 instantly allows you to view netflix on your x. i believe that you`ll have to wait for an app from netflix in order for that to work.

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dsxdroider
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For one thing, it might take Netflix a while to forge contracts with a company like Verizon that currently is servicing their competition (Blockbuster) even though Blockbuster should be out of business any month or year now.

 

Also, besides needing to establish a business partnership with all sorts of contracts between Netflix and Verizon, which I have not heard anything about, I do not believe Netflix uses Flash or any Adobe product for any of its movie provisions. Please correct me if I am mistaken, but I do not think Flash has anything to do with it. There are plenty of movie viewer and streamer programs out there that Netflix could augment as an app - I just do not see Flash having anything to do with anything here (please correct me if I am mistaken). Then again, perhaps you should not trust my judgment, as I cannot make any sense of why Verizon would partner/contract with Blockbuster, a company that is (and has been) totally failing in every way that a company can fail. Unless some bigger company comes to the rescue by purchasing Blockbuster for much, much more than it is worth, paying off the company debts, and paying for new advertising campaigns/venues/lobbying efforts for more contracts, etc, it seems pretty clear that Blockbuster will be no more before long. Why would Verizon partner with such a company? Does not make sense to me.

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