Best Buy to offer movie downloads

Nov 4th, 2009 - StarTribune

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Best Buy is planting its flag in the growing market for online movies in a big way, banking that giving consumers access to on-demand downloads will help counter shrinking sales of DVDs.

The Richfield-based retailer said Tuesday it is teaming with Roxio CinemaNow to launch a movie download service that will let consumers pipe Hollywood hits into any device sold by Best Buy that connects to the Internet -- TV sets, portable media players, computers, Blu-ray DVD players and mobile phones.

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