Imagine if you could pay for parking with a few taps of your phone, or after you're done eating a bag of chips you could scarf down the perfectly edible packaging, too. Engineers and designers have been imagining these things, and more.
Redbox, the DVD and video game rental kiosk service with nearly 30,000 locations around the U.S., has extended a free video game rental offer through Thursday, March 8. That same Thursday is also the day that Redbox is offering a free DVD rental to all customers.
Out of the blue (err, red, I suppose), the ubiquitous DVD- and video game-rental kiosk service Redbox has announced five days in a row of free video game rentals.
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 smartphones and video game consoles.
If you still go to the movies fairly regularly, you’re in the minority, according to a new survey.
A just-announced joint venture between Verizon and Redbox will soon offer a service combining video streaming and physical DVD rentals. Now wait just a sec. Isn’t there some company that already does both of those things?
It’s fairly standard practice today for movies to become available for sale on one day, and only become available for rent after several more weeks have passed. For four or so weeks, the only way fans can see the movie is to buy it. For obvious reasons, this 28-day test in delayed gratification succeeds in [...]
Starting on Monday, October 31, Redbox is raising its DVD rental prices from $1 to $1.20 per day. While a 20% increase is significant, we’re only talking about a price hike of a mere two dimes daily. Still, wouldn’t you rather keep that 20¢?
Blockbuster has had a miserable couple of years, closing thousands of movie rental stores, entering bankruptcy, and generally serving as one of the recession era’s biggest business flop stories. Now, though, as Netflix and Redbox—the movie-rental competitors that helped put Blockbuster on the ropes—are raising prices, Blockbuster sees an opening to get back in the [...]
The DVD rental kiosk service Redbox has been enormously successful at a time when much of the economy has struggled. The value and simplicity of Redbox’s product are prime reasons why business has been so good: a flat $1 for each day a DVD is rented. Customers had to know that one day, prices just [...]
Increasingly, consumers just aren’t buying movies. Frustrated with the sales slowdown, movie studios are eager to find new ways of getting more money out of consumers.
