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, [...]
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 [...]
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.
Most of the [...]
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. [...]