Well last night I was trying to go rent a couple movies from Blockbuster Express when we were driving home from the mall. So while on the way we decided to see what might be a good choice. We usually go for those new releases so I headed to the Blockbuster Express website [...]
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 [...]
In what seems to now be a daily occurrence, another University has rolled out a Blockbuster Express Kiosk. Today it was announced that the University of Tampa has rolled out a kiosk in the Vaughn Center. Like the other University roll outs, a portion of the proceeds go back to the school to [...]
NCR Corp., which operates the Blockbuster Express kiosks, announced that it has made a deal with and rolled out more than 100 kiosks at Food City and Bashas’ supermarkets across Arizona.
Bashas’ which operates 153 stores under several different names; Bashas’, Food City, AJ’s Fine Foods, and Dine Markets across Arizona serves many different [...]
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, [...]
Collecting together the latest promo codes for free rentals at Blockbuster Express.
You can use these codes once per credit card. After that it won’t let you continue to use it. But if you are like me and have a pocket full then you can pick up a few different movies with [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]