For the latest streaming video chart, click here. Our July streaming video chart followed word that Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) was separating DVD and streaming subscriptions and raising the price 60 percent for households that kept both. Last started with Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announcing plans to literally split the company…

Our July streaming video chart followed word that Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) was separating DVD and streaming subscriptions and raising the price 60 percent for households that kept both. The past week started with Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announcing plans to literally split the company in two, spinning off DVDs to…

The timing of the Dish Network’s and Blockbuster’s introduction of new a streaming video venture couldn’t be more perfect. With Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) reeling from subscriber losses and discontent after successive PR failures following the move to a bifurcated DVD/streaming video pricing and branding system, this deal could represent Blockbuster’s…

Charlie Ergen just added another kind of home entertainment business to satellite operator Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH) (NSDQ: DISH, picking up Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) in a bankruptcy court auction with a bid worth about $320 million. (For fun with numbers, Ergen bought Sling Media in 2007 for $380 million). Whether…

Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI), which filed for bankruptcy in September, is now putting itself up for sale. The video rental chain says in a statement that by selling itself it will be able “to accelerate our Chapter 11 proceedings and move the company forward.”

Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) ended the speculation today, filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy nearly 25 years after the video rental chain opened its first store. The company said more than 80 percent of its secured creditors have approved a plan to reduce its almost $1 billion in debt to roughly $100…

Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI), which had warned for months that it might have to declare bankruptcy, is expected to file for Chapter 11 later this week or next, the WSJ says. The paper says that Blockbuster will likely close 500 to 800 stores. That’s in addition to of the 960 stores…

Despite its advantage over rivals Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and Redbox in offering new releases for rent, Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) continued to struggle in Q2. In addition to its poor earnings results, the movie rental chain also issued new warnings about the possibility of a bankruptcy, in a 10-Q filing.

While Blockbuster could benefit from the closure of rival video rental chain Movie Gallery, it got no relief in Q1, as the company swung to a $65.4 million net loss from a $27 million profit the year before. It’s clear that more nimble rivals like Netflix’s mail-order and download business…

That’s about the only thing you can say working for Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) now, nevermind those movie studio deals that it closed over the last few weeks. Even Icahn’s given up, further cutting his stake, according to an SEC filing earlier today. But, in its proxy filing couple of days…

The big studios are coming to Blockbuster’s aid. Two weeks after Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) said it would provide Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) with DVDs and Blu-Rays on the same day they are available for sale, Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Twentieth Century Fox say they will do the same. Unlike Warner…

Activist investor Carl Icahn has sold 75 percent of his holdings in Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI)—at a time when the rental chain probably needs his support the most. SeekingAlpha says he’s sold about 14 million of the 20 million shares he held just last week at the fire-sale prices of 24…

This surely isn’t the four weeks of Advent, but nevermind, at least Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) gets some breathing space it desperately needs. It has a new windowing deal with Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) where DVDs and Blu-rays will be available to the customers four weeks before they get released on…

A few weeks after reporting that its net loss grew in Q4, Blockbuster’s 10-k presents some stark details about its debt struggles. The movie rental chain’s SEC filing served as a warning of sorts, with Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) saying that its roughly $1 billion in debt could become more difficult…

Blockbuster’s stock is trading at under a dollar, its net losses are widening, and it’s in the midst of closing nearly 1,000 stores—but on CNBC Thursday CEO Jim Keyes insisted that the company had a bright future in digital because of its strong brand. “When you’re driving down mainstreet and…

As if Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) didn’t have enough competition, this week’s news that Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) is buying digital home video service Vudu comes just as the Dallas-based movie renter is taking a cautious approach to build its vending and on-demand. Blockbuster’s net loss widened to $434.9 million in Q4…

Blockbuster’s “transformation” plan to close stores and shift to digital and kiosk distribution can’t come fast enough. The company’s loss widened from 11-cents per share in Q308, to 60-cents per share in Q309. Overall revenues were down 21 percent year-over-year—a slump Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) attributed primarily to an 18.3 percent…

Saddled with debt and struggling to maintain sales amid competition from the likes of *Netflix* and Redbox, *Blockbuster* has sold Xtra-vision—its chain of nearly 200 retail locations in Ireland—to drum up some cash. The deal, potentially worth $45 million (€32 million), will give the company some much-needed “liquidity,” CEO Jim…

*Blockbuster* is trying to do everything it can to stay relevant—from brokering deals to get its OnDemand streaming service in Samsung TVs, to rolling out rental kiosks, to renting films through *TiVo*—but judging from its Q2 earnings performance, rivals like *Netflix* and Redbox continue to chip away at its core…