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Companies are finally realizing that with the economy the way it is that if they want people to keep renting their movies, they need to make them less expensive.  Enter the DVD kiosk. DVDPlay, the country’s first automated and remotely managed DVD rental kiosk company, recently noticed a need to… Continue Reading »

Circuit City’s CEO, Philip J. Schoonover, announced his resignation as president and CEO and is leaving the company immediately.  Normally, when a company changes CEOs, there is a plan announced sometimes years in advance to keep the stock price afloat.  Schoonover’s departure was not part of any such plan. New… Continue Reading »

Blockbuster has taken the step and begin offering, still as a beta only service movie downloads and movie rentals. This new service marks the integration of the Movielink service which they purchased just about one year ago. Currently Blockbuster is offering around 5,000 movie and TV shows which can be… Continue Reading »

Movie-rental chain giant Blockbuster announced recently that it was withdrawing its $1 billion bid for consumer electronics chain Circuit City. Blockbuster initially made the proposal on February 17, with due diligence and the announcement being made public last month on April 14. Chief Executive James Keyes blamed “market conditions” for… Continue Reading »

Blockbuster is about to launch a pilot test of its in-store kiosks for downloading movies into portable media devices. Sounds cool? Even cooler is the fact that downloading one movie would only take a customer two minutes. And we’re not talking here of short half an hour movies but movies… Continue Reading »

As we previously reported, video rental giant Blockbuster has been looking to acquire electronics giant Circuit City. Blockbuster has already offered a whopping $1 billion, but reports are flying in, saying that they cannot fund such a hefty offer. In an official statement from the company, Circuit City said: “Circuit… Continue Reading »

The courtship began in December with heady bids, chocolate kisses, and flowers. Blockbuster, the movie rental leader was set to hitch Circuit City to it’s star. Making its overtures public on Monday with an offering reportedly worth nearly 1 billion dollars. There were talks of crossing platforms with Circuit City… Continue Reading »

Netflix has passed another milestone in the by-mail DVD rental business, they have passed the 100,000 movie mark. In addition Netflix now also has over 8,000 movies and TV shows available to watch instantly along with approximately 7.5 million customers. Netflix has also surpassed rival Blockbuster who currently has just… Continue Reading »

Blockbuster is all set to acquire Circuit City, hoping it would become a very huge electronic gadget chain aside from being a global provider of movies and gaming entertainment. Blockbuster is reportedly willing to bid over $1 billion, larger than the company’s current value in the stock market, to create… Continue Reading »

Spring has arrived in the Eastern United States, and rumors are in the air. One of which is that Blockbuster is working on a Vudu like set top box to get movies out to consumers, without having them leave their homes.  As the story goes, Blockbuster will be working with… Continue Reading »