BLUE DVD KIOSKS WILL BE TURNING RED

Redbox is taking over Blockbuster Express. In a surprise announcement on Monday, Coinstar, which operates the Redbox DVD kiosks, and NCR, which has operated the Blockbuster Express kiosks said that they will merge. Under the deal Redbox will pay NCR $100 million for its assets in company. For the time being, the Blockbuster Express logo [...]

REDBOX NOW DVD RENTAL LEADER

According to Consumer research group NPD, most people who rent DVDs or Blu-ray discs now get them from Redbox kiosks. It noted, however, that one of the reasons is that Redbox’s principal competitor, Netflix, is focusing its attention on its streaming service rather than its DVD-by-mail service. According to NPD’s latest study, consumer rentals of [...]

WAIT FOR DVD’S ON NETFLIX AND REDBOX TO GROW LONGER

Warner Bros., which was the first to impose a 28-day embargo on the release of DVDs to Netflix, RedBox, and other cheap rental companies, is likely to double that delay this year, according to published reports on Thursday. The studio, which is believed to have taken a big hit on DVD sales in the third [...]

SANDLER COMEDY MOST RENTED ON REDBOX IN 2011

Just Go with It, the first of two Adam Sandler movies released this year — the other was Jack and Jill — just barely kept Sandler’s streak of $100-million hits going (it wound up with $103 million; Jack and Jill only made it to $71 million), but it was the biggest hit of the year [...]

CONSUMERS GO APES IN HOLIDAY DVD BUYS

It doesn’t sound like the kind of movie you’d give to someone as a Christmas gift, but 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes debuted at the top of Nielsen VideoScan First Alert’s DVD and Blu-ray Disc sales charts last week. A movie that does seem like one that you’d [...]

CONAN ON YOUTUBE FOR A BUCK DAY AFTER RELEASE

Only a day after Lionsgate’s Conan the Barbarian was released on home video, the movie popped up on YouTube’s Dollar Theater Collection — a collection of recently released movies that can be streamed online for 99 cents. The collection also includes such major theatrical hits as Warner Bros.’ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part [...]

BLOCKBUSTER EXPRESS UNVEILS NEW RENTAL FEES

Blockbuster Express, the kiosk operator owned by NCR Corp., not the DISH satellite company, which owns the brick-and-mortar stores, will inaugurate a new pricing structure for movie rentals beginning Nov. 8. Users will have to pay $3.00 for the first night during the first 28 days after a movie’s release. From the 29th day until [...]

REDBOX USERS APPEAR TO ACCEPT 20-PERCENT RATE HIKE

Unlike Netflix subscribers who signaled their displeasure with the video rental company’s rate hike with their feet, users of Redbox kiosks appeared unfazed by the company’s 20 percent rate hike that went into effect this week, according to a spot check in North Hollywood, CA conducted by Home Media magazine. Interviewed as he was returning [...]

WARNER BROS. SAYS BLOCKBUSTER MUST WAIT 28 DAYS, TOO

Warner Bros., which forces Redbox and Netflix to wait 28 days before they can rent out its films, will now apply that policy to Blockbuster, which has boasted that customers can rent the discs from its brick-and-mortar locations or from its website without having to wait those four weeks. Analysts observed that Warner Bros. may [...]

REDBOX PICKING UP FLEEING NETFLIX SUBSCRIBERS

Kiosk operator Redbox is taking advantage of Netflix’s foibles by hiring a creative advertising agency, San Francisco’s Camp & King, to develop a national ad campaign boasting that it responds to its customers and that customers in turn love them for that. (The implication is that Netflix does not.) Advertising Age reported that it also [...]

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