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, [...]
In an effort to keep up with where Apple has taken the iPhone model and Netflix is delivering streaming movies, Blockbuster has inked a deal with Motorola, Inc. that has Blockbuster integrating its OnDemand application with various models of cellphones and other handheld devices.
It has not been announced when the service will be [...]
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 [...]
I was thinking back to those days when I used to visit the movie rental stores. Now I have to say that was long enough ago that it was VHS at the time. I haven’t graced a store with my presence since the DVD was new. I’ve actually been a subscriber to [...]
There have been some serious speculations going around Monday that Amazon might be looking to acquire Netflix. Both provide very complimentary services. Amazon has been selling DVDs and Blu-ray’s for years as well as having an on-demand product. Couple that with Netflix’s 10 million current subscribers and combine some services and there [...]
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 [...]