As if we needed additional proof that Blockbuster Video's days are numbered...

We think the ultimate solution is a kiosk in a Blockbuster store and outside of a Blockbuster store that... will be able to distribute that content to your portable device.

That's what Blockbuster chief executive James Keyes had to say recently to attendees of a CitiGroup investor conference about the future of video rentals. At a time when Netflix is delivering streaming movies to your computer, Amazon is automatically routing movie rentals to your TiVo, Apple is ready to rent movies through iTunes, and Comcast is perfecting lightning speed downloads of pay-per-view movies to your TV without a cable box, how can Keyes possibly think that consumers will have any interest in going to an in-store kiosk to obtain what they can get cheaply and instantly in their own living rooms? This kind of stubborn adherence to outdated business models is even more inexcusable coming from the head of a company that owns what was once the most promising source for legal movie downloads, Movielink.