Best Buy Joining Digital Movie Biz

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By Ambreen Ali

Posted Apr 17, 2009 8:57 AM CDT

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Best Buy Joining Digital Movie Biz — The digital movie arm will put Best Buy in competition with Blockbuster, Amazon, and Netflix. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, file)

Best Buy plans to join the digital movie market this summer to offset declining DVD sales, Variety reports. The retailer is in talks with film providers such as CinemaNow—also Blockbuster's supplier—and may market TVs or Blu-ray players with built-in access to the movie library. That would put Best Buy in direct competition with Netflix and Amazon.

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