There have been some serious speculations going around Monday that Amazon might be looking to acquire Netflix. Both provide very complimentary services. Amazon has been selling DVDs and Blu-ray’s for years as well as having an on-demand product. Couple that with Netflix’s 10 million current subscribers and combine some services and there [...]
This morning I was sitting at my weekly morning breakfast with some of my buddies and we got to talking about car trips this morning. A lot of it was discussing how our wives and daughters slow us down on the trips by needing much more frequent stops that we men do . [...]
I have just setup a new community forum for us here at InsideBlockbusterExpress.com. If you have something to share that isn’t just a reply to one of the posts, you can start your own thread there!. I have put in a few for promo codes for Moviecube that I had come across. [...]
After the story yesterday about whether Blockbuster Express would be putting video games into kiosks I came across an article on Kotaku.com that showed the new G-Box from Gamefly. This appears to be the same NCR kiosk being used by Blockbuster Express but with a HUGE amount of yellow paint all over it! [...]
As the kiosks roll across America quickly outpacing the growth and footprint of the Brick and Mortar stores we have to look at how they will continue to compete with those stores. Most of the store also rent video games. That has become a significant portion of their business. The length of [...]
In this new world of DVD Kiosk video rentals the consumers are getting a great product at a great deal. But its really messing with the model that the studios have setup. Consumers are pulling $1 movies out of rental kiosks in record numbers every day. This has prompted some of the [...]
I’ve been able to pull all of the known kiosk locations for Blockbuster Express and put them into an interactive Google Map! The latest ones are concentrated in the Oklahoma City area with a few other newer ones in the area surrounding Dallas. I’ve also found a few in the Dollar tree stores [...]
Blockbuster Express kiosks which have just started rolling out into the Dallas and Oklahoma City markets will be offering Blu-ray disc rentals. Rentals of Blu-ray titles will be slightly more expensive than standard DVD’s. The first day rental for Blu-ray will be $1.99 with subsequent days falling to $.99.
Most of the [...]
Movie rentals aren’t happening the way they used to.
People used to go to the video store and browse through the aisles of various movie titles in different categories. You would spend some time over on the New Release walls and then maybe come back into the aisles separated into different Genre’s once [...]
NCR’s CEO William Nuti spoke with Fast Money on CNBC earlier this week. He talked about the new entertainment division and where they are going with rental kiosks. He even spoke a little about the E-Play kiosks (though he didn’t name them by name) that can do buy-back of used games and DVD’s. [...]