Best Buy launches on-demand movies, TV shows service
Next time you home and are getting bored better check out Best Buy’s website and order your favorite movie or a TV show, and enjoy it on your high definition TV. Best Buy today announced that it has formed a partnership with Sonic Solutions under which the former will use Sonic’s Roxio CinemaNow, allowing consumers to buy or rent a vast library of premium content.
To foster the consumer appetite for obtaining on-demand premium content electronically, Best Buy intends to embed the Roxio CinemaNow technology on a wide array of devices – web-connected television sets, portable media players, PCs, Blu-ray Disc players, set-top boxes, and mobile phones – from a variety of manufacturers.
Once you have such a device you will be able to buy or rent an extensive library of premium content including new movies, TV shows, independent films, and older catalog movies.
No word on pricing details.
