NCR Launches High-Capacity Rental Kiosk
The company behind Blockbuster Express kiosks is expanding its machine capacity to 950 discs, an increase of 35%. By Video Business
View ArticleNCR Brings Blockbuster DVD Kiosks To NYC
DVD kiosks are familiar sights throughout much of the U.S., but in not New York City, where supermarkets are few and Wal-Mart nonexistent. Redbox, for example, has only three kiosks in Manhattan. Now,...
View ArticleRedbox By The Numbers
Speaking at a May 11 investor conference in New York, Coinstar CEO Paul Davis shared some datapoints about its Redbox unit and the market potential for rental kiosks: • Consumers rent 9 million DVDs...
View ArticleUSA Wins, Blockbuster Express Users Rent For Free
In another major free-rental promotion among kiosk brands, Blockbuster Express customers who registered at a website will receive a free rental code thanks to the USA’s World Cup win today. Home Media...
View ArticleNCR Expands Blockbuster Kiosk Footprint In The South
The DVD kiosk vendor adds more than 500 locations in Tennessee and eight other Southeastern states in separate agreements with the Daily’s and MAPCO Express convenience store chains. NCR, which began...
View ArticleNCR Exec Returns To Entertainment Kiosk Unit As VP/GM
The company, which licenses the Blockbuster brand name for its network of DVD rental kiosks, names Justin Hotard to once again helm its NCR Entertainment division following the departure of GM Alex...
View ArticleNCR, Universal Test ‘Premium Rentals’ in Kiosks; Netflix Confirms Sony Deal
NCR Entertainment announced yesterday that it would make new DVD and Blu-ray titles from Universal Studios Home Entertainment available 28 days after their sell-through release, echoing the windowing...
View ArticleNCR Expands Kiosk Footprint In Southeastern Grocery Stores
NCR plans to install its Blockbuster Express DVD kiosks in all 207 stores of the BI-LO chain, located throughout South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee. The Blockbuster Express kiosks...
View ArticleNCR Tests $3 Kiosk Rentals With Warner, Fox
Some 900 of NCR Entertainment’s Blockbuster Express kiosks in four cities are renting DVDs of Warner Bros.’ “Inception” and Fox’s “Knight & Day” for $2.99, in a test to see whether studios can...
View ArticleRedbox-Groupon Promotion Offers Three DVD Rentals for $1
In a nationwide promotion that expires Tuesday night, Redbox teams with Groupon to offer three one-night DVD rentals for $1. The deal, originally offered this weekend, is proving to be quite popular...
View ArticleNCR Adds Blockbuster Express Kiosks To RaceTrac Stores
NCR Corp. says that it is in the midst of installing Blockbuster Express rental kiosks in 309 RaceTrac convenience stores located in five Southeastern states. Nearly 200 machines already are installed,...
View ArticleNCR To Implement “3-2-1” Pricing at Blockbuster Express Kiosks, Responding to...
NCR Entertainment will raise DVD rental prices at its 10,000 Blockbuster Express kiosks nationwide, following a similar move by its competitor Redbox to offset an increase operating costs. Whereas...
View ArticleSaturation Point in Sight for Rental Kiosks: Analyst
How much growth is left in the kiosk rental business? More than two thirds of U.S. households are already within a five-minute drive of a Redbox kiosk, according to a J.P. Morgan analyst who speculates...
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