{"id":264121,"date":"2010-02-02T08:20:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T13:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/02\/02\/blockbuster-is-a-turn-around-still-possible-voices\/"},"modified":"2010-02-02T08:20:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T13:20:18","slug":"blockbuster-is-a-turn-around-still-possible-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/264121","title":{"rendered":"Blockbuster: Is a Turn Around Still Possible? [Voices]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>By Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron&#8217;s, Tech Trader Daily<\/p>\n<p>Blockbuster (BBI) could be running out of time.<\/p>\n<p>GimmeCredit analyst Kin Noland downgraded the firm\u2019s rating on the struggling video store chain to Deteriorating from Stable, pointing to the surprisingly strong Q4 from Netflix (NFLX), as well as the increasingly precarious state of rival Movie Gallery, parent of the Hollywood Video chain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDVD rentals and sales are experiencing a secular decline and pricing continues to fall as consumers use their computers and TV\u2019s to start watching movies by instant download,\u201d Noland writes. \u201cThis shift in consumer viewing likely will make kiosks less attractive over the long term as well. We remain concerned that Blockbuster is so over-leveraged, it may not be able to turn around and will end up in a debt restructuring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.barrons.com\/techtraderdaily\/2010\/02\/01\/blockbuster-is-a-turn-around-still-possible\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+barrons%2Ftechtraderdaily%2Ffeed+%28BARRONS.com+Blog%3A+Tech+Trader+Daily%29&amp;mod=tech\">Read the rest of this post on the original site<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Buy This Item: <a class=\"buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/buy.php\" ><span style=\"color: #33bc03\">[Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/voices.allthingsd.com\/20100202\/blockbuster-is-a-turn-around-still-possible\/?mod=ATD_rss\" >Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron&#8217;s, Tech Trader Daily Blockbuster (BBI) could be running out of time. GimmeCredit analyst Kin Noland downgraded the firm\u2019s rating on the struggling video store chain to Deteriorating from Stable, pointing to the surprisingly strong Q4 from Netflix (NFLX), as well as the increasingly precarious state of rival Movie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}