Blockbuster has announced the availability of its free Blockbuster App on the App Store. The app is free. You can find out more about it here on Blockbuster's website.
"Downloading this app is like putting BLOCKBUSTER in your pocket," said Kevin Lewis, senior vice president of digital entertainment at Blockbuster. "It's just one more way we're working to expand our connection with our customers and their access to the entertainment they want most. We spent a lot of time listening to the kind of features our customers wanted in an app for the iPhone and iPod touch, and we're excited by the functionality in this first release."
The Blockbuster iPhone app enables customers to:
Browse Blockbuster's entertainment catalog -- browse Blockbuster's
complete catalog of movies and television shows.
Check real-time store inventory -- access up-to-the-minute inventory
data to see if the movie they want to rent is currently in-stock at
their local participating Blockbuster store.
Build and manage an online rental queue -- create or manage an online
queue of movies they want to rent, adding, deleting or reordering
titles directly from their iPhone or iPod touch.
Locate their nearest Blockbuster store -- find the nearest store based
on a customer's current location or from another provided address.