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Best Buy to let you rent, buy movies online

You'll soon be able to rent or buy movies from Best Buy on the Web.

Best Buy is setting up a digital delivery service with CinemaNow, according to the Associated Press.

That means you'll be able to shop CinemaNow's video library, which will be included on all the Web-connected gizmos at Best Buys stores.

So if you buy flat-panel TVs, Blu-ray players, PCs, and mobile phones at Best Buy, you can get downloads of videos the same day they are released on DVDs.

The AP story notes this marks the latest step away from the DVD format.

"Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and DVD-by-mail pioneer Netflix Inc. all have been winning over consumers with their own digital delivery systems," according to the article. "Blockbuster Inc. also has a deal with CinemaNow that lets people rent movies over the Internet."

I know for me, I've debated whether to get a Blu-ray player, even though prices have dropped to around $100.

That's because I prefer the convenience of digitally downloading or streaming shows and music versus buying DVDs or CDs.