DVD kiosk startup takes aim at market
SAUSALITO – Sausalito is home to a brash startup with plans to place 25,000 to 30,000 “media filling stations” in high-traffic locations over the next few years.
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NCR at Kiosk Crossroads?
With nearly two-thirds of its planned 10,000 Blockbuster Express rental kiosks allocated, NCR Corp. appears uncertain whether to increase the install base or focus on alternative distribution channels for home entertainment.
NCR Appoints Justin Hotard Head of NCR Entertainment
Hotard has been actively engaged in NCR’s Entertainment business since its inception. He was part of the business development team that was instrumental in creating and extending the NCR Entertainment line of business, leading the acquisitions and integration of key companies including Touch Automation, Ambient, TNR, and DVDPlay.
Netflix shares drop as revenue misses Wall Street’s target
July 21, 2010 | 3:37 pm
Wall Street’s sky-high expectations for Netflix Inc. sent its stock into a swoon after hours Wednesday as the fast-growing DVD-by-mail company failed to meet revenue expectations.
Netflix stock was down 9% in after-hours trading after it reported $520 million in revenue for the three months ending June 30. That was [...]
Indie kiosk owners take on movie-rental giants
Posted at 12:21 PM on Monday, Jul. 19, 2010
By Bethany Clough / The Fresno Bee
A new kind of challenger has entered the nation’s DVD rental wars: mom-and-pop kiosk owner.
Marsha Conant is one of this new breed. She has installed two machines stocked with DVDs in Fresno — one in Whole Foods Market at Fig [...]
Free movie rental when you rent one – today only
Rent one movie from a Blockbuster Express kiosk and get a second free — today only. Use Blockbuster coupon code G217B2. Expires at midnight today, July 14, 2010.
Pilot joins movie box rental trend – Stores to carry Blockbuster Express kiosks
By Clayton Hensley
Knoxville News Sentinel
Posted July 14, 2010 at midnight
As Knoxville-area consumers fill up their gas tanks, grab a few lottery tickets and grab some milk, they also may end up choosing a movie or two these days.
Pilot convenience stores have joined the dollar-a-night movie machine rental trend and are competing with retailers like Walgreens [...]
NCR Won’t Let Blockbuster Die in Peace
By Rick Aristotle Munarriz
July 6, 2010
Just when the inevitable delisting of Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) seemed to all but kill the debt-saddled DVD rental chain, NCR (NYSE: NCR) is whipping out the defibrillator.
NCR has struck a deal with QuikTrip to install Blockbuster Express kiosks in nearly all of the chain’s 555 convenience stores.
The Blockbuster Express machine [...]
NCR To Add Blockbuster Kiosks At QuikTrip Stores
NCR To Install Blockbuster DVD Rental Kiosks At QuikTrip Stores In 9 States
(AP) DULUTH, Ga. (AP) – NCR Corp. said Tuesday it plans to install Blockbuster DVD vending machines in “nearly all” of the 555 QuikTrip convenience stores in nine states.
The stores are in Arizona, Illinois, Iowa, Georgia, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas, [...]
NCR to install more Blockbuster DVD kiosks
DULUTH, Ga.
NCR Corp. said Tuesday it plans to install more Blockbuster DVD vending machines in Tennessee, Kentucky and elsewhere in the South.
NCR, which operates the rental kiosks for Blockbuster, said the DVD kiosks will be installed in Mapco Express and nearly 100 Daily’s convenience stores in Tennessee and elsewhere in the South.
NCR bought DVDPlay [...]
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