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Netflix angered customers this week by removing the option to order DVDs via videostreaming consoles and mobile devices. The news that it was eliminating the "Add to DVD Queue" button in order to focus more on streaming videos has drawn thousands of comments, many critical of the company.

Aiming to ease a major concern among Hollywood studios, Intel is set to introduce new chips that will have antipiracy measures built in. This will allow the streaming of top-quality 1080p movie images to PCs, something pretty much not possible up to now.

Strike another nail in the coffin of brick-and-mortar video stores. Netflix has agreed to pay $1 billion over the next five years for the online streaming rights to movies from Paramount, Lionsgate and MGM. Originally a mail-order movie service, Netflix has been working on boosting its online...

This series explores aspects of America that may soon be just a memory -- some to be missed, some gladly left behind. From the least impactful to the most, here are 25 bits of vanishing America. I've been predicting the death of the movie rental store since 1995, when I was a film critic and...