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UPDATE, 10:55 AM: Dish Network CEO Joe Clayton was clearly talking about Warner Bros, although he didn’t single the studio out by name in his company’s conference call with analysts. Warners wants to make Blockbuster wait 28 days for new home videos, leading the rental operation that Dish bought in April to go to the…

NCR wants to sell the Blockbuster Express DVD kiosk business, but it may have to deal with some angry customers on Tuesday when it implements its 3-2-1 pricing plan. The company will continue to charge $3 for the first night to rent a DVD that’s been out 28 days or less. (Actually new movies will cost a penny more…

Dish Unveils Blockbuster Movie Pass What a letdown. Dish Network does the dance of the seven veils as it hints that it will take on Netflix, and the big news today is that it will re-brand Blockbuster’s existing streaming and mail-order DVD rental service — and offer it to Dish Network customers willing to pay an…

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings had better hope that consumers are more forgiving than Wall Street. The company’s shares fell 7.4% on Monday following Hastings’ mea culpa for botching the roll out of Netflix’s decision in July to separate its streaming business from DVD rentals — he tried to gloss over the fact that it…

Here’s what will be left of the video rental chain that Dish Network bought for $320M. For reference, Blockbuster had 4,255 domestic stores in 2006. MCKINNEY, Texas, July 21, 2011 – Blockbuster L.L.C. announced today it has assumed contracts with property owners nationwide and will maintain operations of more than…

Coinstar shares are down nearly 10.5% in after-hours trading as the company coupled this surprising announcement with an early release of financial data that’s lower than Wall Street expected. The owner of the Redbox $1-a-night DVD rental kiosks says that next week it will report 2Q revenues of between $434M and $436M…

UPDATE-WRITETHRU: How long will it take before Wall Street's cheers for TiVo CEO Tom Rogers turn into catcalls? The Street applauded the former lawyer and NBC cable big shot today following TiVo's agreement to settle a seven-year patent dispute with Dish Network. TiVo shares were up 3%, to $9.86, after the satellite…

Dish Network CEO Charlie Ergen — once tossed out of a Las Vegas casino for card counting — was poker-faced again on Monday in discussing his plans for Blockbuster. In a conference call with analysts he wouldn’t say whether he’ll continue to rent DVDs at lots of bricks and mortar stores, or gut that business in favor…

Despite the objections of 111 parties including plenty of creditors, U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge Burton Lifland approved Dish Network’s $320 million offer for the beleaguered vid chain. According to Bloomberg.com, the deal <a href="http://noir.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aLb.gGvwtr28" rel="nofollow"…