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Will Blockbuster make a comeback in 2023?
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resolved Jan 1
Resolved
NO

Context: A number of tech news sites (example) have recently noticed that the official website of Blockbuster Video is live again, featuring a cryptic "We are working on rewinding your movie" message. Speculation in these articles is that this might be signaling a return of the Blockbuster brand sometime in the near future. Will it?

Resolves YES if a new physical store (other than the one extant one) or a digital marketplace is opened under the "Blockbuster" brand, where it is possible to buy, rent, or stream products, before midnight on December 31, 2023. Resolves NO otherwise.

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The only change I see is that the official website is now redirecting to some streaming service called "Sling TV."

Fwiw, archive.org seems to indicate the site has been more or less in this state since September 25, 2022. For a while, it had a greenscreened video of somebody looking at old Blockbuster rental racks overlaid on top of the current image.

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