Just saw a tweet from KioskMarketplace.com that linked to an interesting article at Bloomberg.com. According to the article at Bloomberg.com today, Blockbuster CEO James Keyes said the movie-rental chain may be more aggressive in closing stores as it deploys as many as 10,000 Blockbuster Express rental kiosks by mid-2010.
Keyes blames the [...]
We are seeing kiosks rolling out to locations at a rate of almost 2 per hour now between Blockbuster Express and Redbox alone. But why are these kiosks all rolling out in an age where we are expecting digital downloads to dominate within such a short time? One analyst put it that we [...]
I was thinking back to those days when I used to visit the movie rental stores. Now I have to say that was long enough ago that it was VHS at the time. I haven’t graced a store with my presence since the DVD was new. I’ve actually been a subscriber to [...]
I have seen a couple more codes for Blockbuster Express come up. Try BBXPUB and PTPX9X9 when you are checking out to get your movies for free!
Yesterday Fox announced a suspension of movie titles to Blockbuster Express and Redbox for at least 30 days from release. This joins them with Universal in a fight against the $1/day kiosk vendors. Last week, Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes compared Redbox to $1 movie theaters to $1 movie theaters and said Warner [...]
So our local Wal-Mart has been undergoing some renovations lately. New flooring, new paint, new layout, etc. One thing we noticed one day was that they were hauling the Redbox kiosks out. Being that I’m watching the industry we followed where they went and they just went around to the front of [...]
Disney’s Studio Unit posted a third quarter loss of $12 Million as compared to a profit of $97 Million during the previous operating year. Disney’s Studio Unit contains Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment division which is responsible for DVD sales and rentals.
Disney CEO Iger said “People are not looking to build [DVD] [...]
Fox has joined in Universal’s campaign against the DVD rental kiosks by ordering wholesalers to stop supplying discs to Redbox and Blockbuster Express kiosks during the first 30 days after Fox film and television titles hit the market. The move, which News Corp. president Chase Carey hinted at Wednesday during an earnings conference call, follows [...]
Got a new code for Blockbuster Express locations! Use B1WX9X8 at checkout. This code is supposed to be good through 8/10 and usually can be used only once per credit card! Go check out the Blockbuster Express Kiosk near you! Locations can be found on our interactive Kiosk Map.
I just wanted to put a quick blurb to apologize for not keeping up your Blockbuster Express and DVD Kiosk news. It has been a crazy couple of weeks with 4 of my family ending up with X-rays for various aches and possible breaks (one was an actual break, one was damaged ligaments, one [...]