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 [...]
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. [...]
The same E-Play kiosks that we mentioned a little while back as being tested at 77 Wal-Mart stores are also now being tested at select Best Buy stores in Dallas and Austin. And since there were never any rental kiosks at Best Buy stores before, the full functionality of the kiosks is being enabled. [...]
E-Play based in Columbus, Ohio is installing their new kiosks at 77 Wal-Mart stores in New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Most of these stores do not have a Redbox DVD Kiosk installed at this time. For those stores that already have a Redbox kiosk, the DVD rental capabilities will be turned [...]
So for the past year or more, NCR and Blockbuster have tried to work through the process to create downloadable movie content through Kiosks. There have been some limited trials here and there but nothing on a larger scale yet.
Today MOD Systems announced in an interview with Video Business at the Digital [...]
Netflix Inc (NFLX.O), posted a strong profit at 37 cents per share but it was less than analysts had been hoping for. Netflix is growing at a phenomenal pace quickly outstripping its competitors like Blockbuster. But growing competition from DVD rental kiosks kept them from reaching some higher targets that they were stretching [...]
NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) announced today that it has purchased the remaining equity in TNR Holdings Corp., the second largest DVD kiosk operator in North America, in order to expand the NCR SelfServ™ Entertainment portfolio across North America under the Blockbuster Express brand. NCR had been a minority stakeholder in the company since a [...]