March 26, 2012
Total DVD and Blu-ray Disc rental revenue topped $5.65 billion for the year, a 3.4 percent drop from the previous year, according to year-end 2011 figures released this week from RENTRAK CORPORATION, a provider of multi-screen media measurement.
“One bright spot was the kiosk industry, however. In Q4 2011, the DVD and Blu-ray rental [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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