Blockbuster Express kiosks which have just started rolling out into the Dallas and Oklahoma City markets will be offering Blu-ray disc rentals. Rentals of Blu-ray titles will be slightly more expensive than standard DVD’s. The first day rental for Blu-ray will be $1.99 with subsequent days falling to $.99.
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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. [...]
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 [...]