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 [...]
By Associated Press, Published: March 1
LOS ANGELES — Cut-rate rental DVD kiosk operator Redbox said Thursday that it has renewed a deal to carry movies made by Universal Pictures 28 days after discs are made available for sale.
The deal extends through August 2014 a pact first made in April 2010.
Hollywood studios have differing views of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
January 24, 2012
Coinstar’s redbox is the most popular source of DVD and Blu-ray disc rentals, according to an NPD survey released Thursday.
Although redbox is beating its competitors, NPD’s VideoWatch tracker, which surveyed more than 38,600 movie renters and an additional 74,000 Blu-ray renters, found that the number of consumers getting their movies from streaming services [...]
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 [...]
2011 treated Redbox pretty well, according to data from research firm The NPD Group. According to the firm, Redbox’s unit volume in disc rentals rose 29% in the declining market, and Redbox now commands 37% of all DVD and Blu-ray rentals.
Russ Crupnick, SVP of industry analysis for The NPD Group, summed up the firm’s findings [...]
Brick-and-mortar retail stores continue to cede movie-rental market share, as kiosks and digital-streaming rentals become more accepted by consumers.
Port Washington, N.Y. (PRWEB) January 19, 2012
According to The NPD Group, a leading market research company, U.S. consumer rental of movies in DVD and Blu-ray Disc formats fell by 11 percent in 2011, versus the prior [...]
Copyright © 2012 dvdkioskinsider. Designed by
Powered by eShop v.4
Insider Comments