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HMV Enter The Video On Demand Market

November 29, 2011 By 1 Comment
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Last month we heard that Netflix, one of the US’s biggest TV/movie rental streaming sites, is coming to the UK and Ireland early in 2012. With the online streaming/physical rental service currently largely dominated by the Amazon-owned LoveFilm here in the UK, it will be interesting to see how Netflix fare when they arrive. Word [...]

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HMV Announce Plan to Close Sixty Stores

January 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The face of the British high street is set to change further with one of the most recognisable, and one of the last standing, entertainment retailer HMV announcing that in order to control costs they would close sixty of their high street stores, and twenty of the book retailers Waterstones which HMV Group also own. [...]

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HMV and Curzon to Open Cinemas in Store

March 29, 2010 By 1 Comment

Dave reported in October last year that HMV were linking up with Cuzon to open a 200 seat cinema in their retail store in Wimbledon, London. This pilot scheme was a successful one, as it is being reported today that HMV and Curzon are to open twenty cinemas in store across the UK. HMV has [...]

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HMV Launches a Cinema in a Store

October 23, 2009 By 5 Comments
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Could this be the way that online retail is going? With Zavii and Woolworthes going down the toilet, HMV is one of the only high street shops that specialise in music and DVD sales. BBC Newsbeat have today reported that HMV have opened a three-screen digital cinema above its Wimbledon branch in collaboration with cinema [...]

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