Movie Watching Trend Will Kill Off Blockbuster, Netflix And Redbox

July 7, 2008 · by Scott

HTPC The current business models of Blockbuster, Netflix and Redbox will be a thing of the past. Sure, they won’t completely die out, but they will suffer the same fate of VHS eventually. The only way any of these companies will survive in the long term is if they get in on this very trend.

And no, it isn’t piracy.

The future is in home servers, media center PCs and on-demand boxes. Everyone will have a computer/server who’s sole purpose is to download movies, store them and play them on-demand on your TV. You could go one step further and say that we won’t even have to store the movies we buy. Companies storing our movies for us and letting us purchase unlimited on-demand rights to them is a perfect scenario, one that would make even home servers and media centers obsolete.

But we are a material bunch. People love to be in immediate possession of their things. Plus we need to be able to upload and store our current DVDs (I own 450+).

Media Center PCs aren’t just storage for your movies, they can manage your home theater system as well. Solutions such as Myth TV have become increasingly popular.

Computer companies know this and already offer “media center PCs” alongside “budget PCs” and “gaming PCs.”

This is a niche that will be easy for many people to build sites and monetize them. One area of focus would be reviewing prebuilt machines as home servers and media center PCs are available from just about every manufacturer. Reviews from your readers can really help turn this into a social site.

Tutorials of how to build these machines can be a site in of itself. With the plethora of computer parts out there, you have plenty of opportunity to capitalize. Again, your readers can get involved in this aspect.

You can go one step further by adding other home theater areas of interest such as TVs and speakers. And if you’re going to focus on home servers, you can add other products like routers.

This is one big niche that isn’t overcrowded yet. Now is the time to get in.

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