According to an article at Home Media Magazine NCR Corporation might be contemplating acquiring some Blockbuster properties.
This comes from a statement made by NCR CEO Bill Nuti who told Bloomberg News the kiosk manufacturer was willing to spend millions to acquire third-party digital and by-mail rental properties.
It is well understood that Blockbuster needs [...]
Blockbuster Express has finally put its online location and reservation system into place! You can now go to the Blockbuster Express site, search for a movie, find nearby kiosks and determine whether it is in stock, reserve it, and then show up and pick it up! Very simple process and that helps to [...]
NCR has an agreement in place with Brookshire Grocery Stores to install its Blockbuster Express DVD rental kiosks in its more than 150 stores across Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi within the first quarter of 2010.
Last year, NCR acquired The New Release (TNR), the number 2 player in the DVD rental kiosk business, based in [...]
The Blockbuster Express rental locations near to me are both at Sonic Drive-Ins. A particular thing to note about a drive-in location is the fact that the kiosk must be outdoor. So after some testing at these locations, NCR has officially launched the NCR SelfServ Entertainment 2381.
Able to hold as many as [...]
The first Blockbuster Express kiosk was just placed at the University of Hartford’s Gengras Student Union. According to Thomas Perra the University’s Associate Vice President and Treasurer, “Besides treasury, investments…I’m always looking for opportunities for non-tuition revenue.” According to Perra, about 5-10% of the rental revenue from the machine would go to the [...]
One of the hottest selling items this Christmas is the Blu-Ray player. A significant number of the big sales at discount stores and electronic houses were trying to get blu-ray players under $200 or even under $100! Walmart had 5 blu-ray players in its Black Friday ads this year. One of those, [...]
In a press release today, NCR announced the acquisition of DVDPlay. According to the release, NCR will work with its retailers to convert those kiosks to their Blockbuster Express branded kiosks starting in early 2010.
DVDPlay was the first to market with a DVD rental kiosk back in 1999. Their kiosks were [...]
I have long wondered if Blockbuster will bring Blockbuster Express Kiosks into their stores. I actually created this draft for a story July 3rd of 2009 but didn’t really have any content. But with the rollout this week of the SD downloadable kiosks, Blockbuster Express in a Blockbuster store is exactly what seems [...]
NCR Corp. is pilot testing a new model of its Blockbuster Express-branded movie-rental kiosks that allow patrons to download a movie to a secure digital (SD) memory card.
No details have been given yet about what devices the video can be played back on. Samsung and others have announced or released TV sets that have [...]
Alex Camara, who left Redbox parent company Coinstar and joined NCR in June 2009 as the VP and General Manager of the Entertainment division, knows the DVD kiosk industry well.
He sat down with Danny King over at Video Business for an interview. You can find the full text at Video Business [...]