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Blockbuster Canada is unaffected by the U.S. bankruptcy and is still financially stable http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20100923/bankruptcy-protection-100923/

Blockbuster Canada is unaffected by the U.S. bankruptcy and is still financially stable http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20100923/bankruptcy-protection-100923/ http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20100923/bankruptcy-protect... I wonder how the US and Canada businesses diverged, maybe less competition in Canada.

cryptoz 16y ago
There's no Hulu in Canada. Until this week (or was it last week?) there was no Netflix either. Now that we have netflix, I doubt Blockbuster Canada has long to live. You might not believe it, but Canada is way behind the USA when it comes to the Internet, media, movies, mobile communication, and all of that. As we slowly catch up, traditional stores like Blockbuster will fail.
- jp_sc 16y ago
  But is not Canada who is behind. Media producers are way behind the Internet in general.
  - smokinn 16y ago
    It's definitely Canada that's behind. Sure, the media producers are behind but so is everything else. It's recently been decided by the CRTC a few months ago that Bell will be allowed to apply metered billing for their wholesale resellers. Those were the last companies that would offer unlimited internet packages. Once this finally gets applied there will be no way, anywhere in Canada, to get a consumer-level Internet connection that does not have a bandwidth cap. Insane. And there are other examples too. Why do all American internet stores need to create a whole separate store (amazon.ca, newegg.ca) before they sell to Canada? Because of Canadian laws and regulations. There's a LOT of reform needed in the Canadian technological sector if we're ever going to catch up to the rest of the world. Right now we're behind and only getting further.
- ghjklkjh 16y ago
  Netflix arrived in Canada yesterday - but their selection is terrible. The most entertaining thing about them is their suggestions: Type in say "Sherlock Holmes" and it says - we don't have that but you might like "Miss Marple investigates", then underneath it says we don't have "Shrek" but you might like "cats and dogs - the rip off TV series". So it somehow matches Sherlock with Shrek - then it actually suggests movies they don't stock - the whole thing is like the monty python (which they don't stock) cheese shop sketch

cryptoz 16y ago

There's no Hulu in Canada. Until this week (or was it last week?) there was no Netflix either. Now that we have netflix, I doubt Blockbuster Canada has long to live. You might not believe it, but Canada is way behind the USA when it comes to the Internet, media, movies, mobile communication, and all of that. As we slowly catch up, traditional stores like Blockbuster will fail.

jp_sc 16y ago
But is not Canada who is behind. Media producers are way behind the Internet in general.
- smokinn 16y ago
  It's definitely Canada that's behind. Sure, the media producers are behind but so is everything else. It's recently been decided by the CRTC a few months ago that Bell will be allowed to apply metered billing for their wholesale resellers. Those were the last companies that would offer unlimited internet packages. Once this finally gets applied there will be no way, anywhere in Canada, to get a consumer-level Internet connection that does not have a bandwidth cap. Insane. And there are other examples too. Why do all American internet stores need to create a whole separate store (amazon.ca, newegg.ca) before they sell to Canada? Because of Canadian laws and regulations. There's a LOT of reform needed in the Canadian technological sector if we're ever going to catch up to the rest of the world. Right now we're behind and only getting further.
ghjklkjh 16y ago
Netflix arrived in Canada yesterday - but their selection is terrible. The most entertaining thing about them is their suggestions: Type in say "Sherlock Holmes" and it says - we don't have that but you might like "Miss Marple investigates", then underneath it says we don't have "Shrek" but you might like "cats and dogs - the rip off TV series". So it somehow matches Sherlock with Shrek - then it actually suggests movies they don't stock - the whole thing is like the monty python (which they don't stock) cheese shop sketch