Best Buy to Offer On-Demand Entertainment Services

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How important are on-demand services for your? Would you buy a certain product for your home theater only if said product will come with support for on-demand entertainment? Well starting today Best Buy has something totally new for you. The giant electronics retailer has inked a deal with Sonic Solutions which will bring a new on-demand movie and entertainment service to Best Buy customers.

The new service is powered by Sonic’s Roxio CinemaNow, a service that you might be already familiar with already. The Roxio CinemaNow technology will be available on various devices sold by your local Best Buy store. These include connected TVs, PMPs, PCs, Blu-ray players, set-top boxes and even mobile phones.

Once the on-demand service is in place Best Buy customers will be able to buy or rent movies and TV shows straight from their home or while they’re on the go. What’s even better is that some of the new titles will be available on the very same day the official DVDs are launched. That means you won’t have to go to the mall searching your favorite movies anymore since your TV will already be able to offer them to you.

Are you excited about all that? It gets even better! Once you buy a DVD then you will be able to play it on any connected device in your home without having to worry for any extra taxes. We have no pricing details at this point as the on-demand offer won’t be available immediately. The new service will only be launched at some point early next year so get ready to invade your local Best Buy store in order to find out more details about how it will actually work.

Just in case you’re not particularly fond of CinemaNow then you should know that Best Buy also has various deals with Netflix, TiVo and Napster planned for next year. You’ll definitely have access to various on-demand services in 2010 and all you need to do is get some of your connected devices from Best Buy.