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 [...]
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 [...]
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 . [...]
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 [...]