Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Dish to Unveil Blockbuster Streaming Service

Dish Network Corp. will announce pricing next week for its Blockbuster streaming-movie service, which will compete with Netflix. Bloomberg reports.

Though the service will be offered initially to Dish subscribers, non-Dish customers who only want Blockbuster’s offering will eventually be able to do so. Dish to Unveil Blockbuster Streaming Prices

The number of people watching video on the Internet is expected to nearly double by 2015 to 1.5 billion while the amount of video they watch on the Web is also seen doubling to more than an hour a day, according to Cisco Systems. 


Not all that video will be of the subscription sort, of course.  Cisco forecast







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