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