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Redbox Deal With Universal Eliminates Rental Window Delay

posted by cmn32480 on Thursday December 28 2017, @12:54AM   Printer-friendly
from the dollar-movies dept.

Fnord666 writes:

Redbox reached a new distribution deal with Universal Pictures to make the studio's Blu-ray Disc and DVD titles available for rental at Redbox kiosks the same day as retail sell-through dates.

The deal also makes Universal's movies available digitally through Redbox On Demand, which the company launched last week, via transactional video-on-demand rentals and electronic sell-through.

Under Redbox's previous pact with Universal, the kiosk operator had agreed to a 28-day window after home-video release to rent the studio's movies at its DVD kiosks.

The revised deal starts with January titles, which will include Tom Cruise-starrer "American Made" and comedy "Brad's Status," written and directed by Mike White and starring Ben Stiller, on Jan. 2, 2018.

Source: http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/redbox-universal-same-day-dvd-kiosk-rentals-1202647477/

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 28 2017, @01:55AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 28 2017, @01:55AM (#614953)

    Maybe its where you live. Where I am, a rural area of flyover country with cruddy expensive internet, I've never seen a box unused for more than 15 minutes and usually I have to either wait in line or have someone queue up behind me before I'm done.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 28 2017, @02:26AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 28 2017, @02:26AM (#614960)

    That explains a lot, thanks. Internet here (great lakes area) is fairly good. Some neighborhoods (but not mine yet) have a choice of Spectrum (Time Warner) Cable internet or Verizon FiOS, so there is at least the appearance of some competition.

    Given the difference in the amount of business, I'm surprised that we have a Redbox here at all.

  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday December 28 2017, @12:39PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday December 28 2017, @12:39PM (#615076) Journal

    That sounds plausible to me. I have only seen Redbox in Speculator, NY, in the middle of the Adirondack State Forest, and close to Bar Harbor, Maine, next to Acadia National Park. Those essentially qualify as fly-over country. They can't have fat broadband pipes there.

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