Got a big stack of videodisc-based movies and TV shows you wish you could watch, instantaneously, on your laptop, mobile phone or TV without actually having the disc stuffed into the device?
Walmart and Hollywood movie studios are about to make that vision real.
The concept is called “Disc-to-Digital” and was announced yesterday by the [...]
The Video Privacy Protection Act, or How Not to Write a Law
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals dismisses class action against Redbox, blasting the Video Privacy Protect Act as “not well drafted.” Too late, Netflix.
11:53 AM PDT 3/15/2012 by Eriq Gardner
Redbox, the giant DVD-rental kiosk operator, has escaped a class action lawsuit [...]
11 March, 2012
Today’s Pioneer Press has my front-page article and a companion column about Digiboo, a new movie-kiosk service that lets you transfer rented or purchased movies to flash drives for viewing on Windows laptops while in the air.
I love the service despite a number of shortcomings, which I detail in the piece and a [...]
By Rick Aristotle Munarriz | More Articles
March 8, 2012 | Comments (1)
Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX ) may be shedding DVD customers, and DISH Network (Nasdaq: DISH ) may be closing up more Blockbuster stores, but there’s still life in optical discs when it comes to cheap movie rentals.
Redbox parent Coinstar (Nasdaq: CSTR [...]
Verizon considered a number of partners for an over-the-top video service, but it was Redbox’s customer base that convinced it to partner with the DVD kiosk company, Verizon Communications EVP and CFO Fran Shammo said at an investors conference.
Speaking at the Deutsche Bank Media and Telecommunications Conference, Shammo said Redbox brings something to the table [...]
By Brad Tuttle | @bradrtuttle | February 21, 2012
What will the vending machines of the future look like? What’ll they sell? Perhaps the question should be: What won’t they sell? Coinstar, the company that owns DVD kiosk giant Redbox, is testing out new machines that’ll sell everything from a first-rate cup of coffee to [...]
Coinstar Inc., owner of the Redbox movie-rental kiosks, said fourth-quarter profit almost tripled and the company will buy the competing service operated by NCR Corp. (NCR) The shares soared.
Net income jumped to $31.5 million, or $1 a share, from $11.7 million, or 35 cents, a year earlier, which included a loss from discontinued operations, the [...]
At a time when the DVD appears to be dying, Redbox has acquired NCR’s entertainment business for $100 million.
Redbox will bolster its movie-kiosk business by acquiring Blockbuster Express.
NCR is a company that specializes in automatic teller machines and retail kiosks. If you used one of those self-serve ticket machines at an airport, chances [...]
23 January 2012
Redbox kiosks have popped up at every neighborhood block in the country practically overnight! There seems to be one in every grocery store, liquor store and 7/11 in the nation.These free-standing, vibrantly red kiosks offer tons of new movie titles for cheap and are require absolutely no membership, making them appealing to many [...]
January 31, 2012 | 11:53am
Warner Bros.’ deal with Redbox has expired with the two companies still at odds over how long consumers should wait to rent DVDs for $1.20 a night.
As a result, kiosk rental company Redbox will have to buy Warner DVDs from retailers like Wal-Mart at a higher price but will no longer [...]
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