Video Content: Movie Theatre’s Still King – Kiosk and Cable Watchers on the Increase

Next in line for most viewers is the Kiosks where movie watchers rent movies from a retail outlet like RedBox with more than 40% saying they use this type service, while 26% of these consumers indicating a willingness to increase use of this venue.

Six Questions: MOD Systems’ Anthony Bay

In the escalation of self-serve kiosk DVD movie rentals, MOD Systems has taken a path less traveled. Instead of packaged media, Seattle-based MOD Systems has opted for electronic distribution of movies and music to portable media devices, USB and Secure Digital (SD) cards through an open standards platform that supports MP3 and Flash-based storage.

Blockbuster at the end of its reel?

Convergence has had Blockbuster Inc. in its cross hairs for years. Who needs a brick-and-mortar video rental store, the reasoning went, once Wal-Mart started pricing DVDs cheap enough to buy? And, more recently, why shell out $19.99 a month for Blockbuster Total Access when one of 19,000 Redbox kiosks not only resides in your local supermarket but dispenses DVDs for $1 a pop? Now, of course, Netflix Inc. mailings and online delivery systems are reducing the idea of leaving the house on a movie run to an antiquated option.

WSJ: Movie Gallery Bankruptcy ‘Imminent’

Movie Gallery is reportedly set to file a second Chapter 11 bankruptcy within two years as early as next week, according to The Wall Street Journal.

As part of “prearranged” bankruptcy, Wilsonville, Ore.-based Gallery, which owns the Hollywood Video franchise, would shutter two-thirds (1,800) of its most underperforming stores, idling several thousand workers.