Movie Booth DVD rental kiosks head for UK, Ireland
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DVD rental kiosks have been lighting up pharmacies and supermarkets across the US, but it seems that UKers and Irish lads / dames will soon have the great, great privilege of interfacing with Movie Booths in the near ...
Staples to stock Flexplay self-destructing DVDs
We’d love to tell you all of this is simply a bad dream, but unfortunately for us, it’s not. For whatever reason, Staples has agreed to start stocking 24 to 26 different newer DVD releases at a time “in standalone displays at the fro...
Roku reveals first Netflix set-top-box, gets reviewed
Well, would you look at that? After a mildly uncomfortable wait, the very first Netflix set-top-box has landed (the Xbox 360 with plug-ins notwithstanding). Thanks to a Silicon Valley startup dubbed Roku, users can finally tap into (a portion of) the...
MovieBeam to have one last go at it?
When MovieBeam shut down operations last December, we had a feeling we wouldn’t be mourning for long, but we definitely didn’t see it playing out like this. Reportedly, Movie Gallery is asking for bankruptcy court approval to sell its VOD...
Movies on a flash drive not apt to boom anytime soon
Earlier this month, we disagreed that HD movie downloads would trump HD DVD / Blu-ray disc purchases in the not-too-distant future, and now we’ve got yet another clever alternative on deck that just doesn’t have the makings of a winner. W...
Apple hundreds short of 1,000 movie promise
Ruh ruh, Macworld ran one last test as the month of February expired yesterday and found that contrary to Apple’s claim that there would be over 1,000 movies for download by March, iTunes and the Apple TV have hundreds fewer flicks available tha...