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 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 [...]
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 [...]
Yesterday Fox announced a suspension of movie titles to Blockbuster Express and Redbox for at least 30 days from release. This joins them with Universal in a fight against the $1/day kiosk vendors. Last week, Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes compared Redbox to $1 movie theaters to $1 movie theaters and said Warner [...]
Disney’s Studio Unit posted a third quarter loss of $12 Million as compared to a profit of $97 Million during the previous operating year. Disney’s Studio Unit contains Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment division which is responsible for DVD sales and rentals.
Disney CEO Iger said “People are not looking to build [DVD] [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]