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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: 0, Offtopic) by aristarchus on Thursday December 28 2017, @04:38AM (6 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday December 28 2017, @04:38AM (#614982) Journal

    Seriously, I have no comment to make on this. Please don't spam mod me, bro!

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by aristarchus on Thursday December 28 2017, @05:19AM (5 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday December 28 2017, @05:19AM (#614995) Journal

    Alright, let me explain. No Comment is actually a comment. It is a comment on how this article, fine though it may be in its own way, is innocuous, trivial, and not worth commenting upon. That is the comment of no-comment, which does sound suspiciously like Takuan's teaching of the "sword of no-sword". Ah, Zen and Tea Ceremony, not really appropriate for a SoylentNews alt-right crowd. Meanwhile, thousands of important and relevant news articles are being purposely ignored, censored, if you will, buy the editors. I prey for them. May there soles roost in piece.

    • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by aristarchus on Thursday December 28 2017, @05:45AM (4 children)

      by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday December 28 2017, @05:45AM (#615000) Journal

      OK, redundant, fair enough. And here I am replying to myself, also redundant. Oh, this is not a good trajectory. . . Go ahead, mod me down again, and you and I will spiral down the vortex of an infinite regression, where we will have to await a Jedi natural like Rey, . . . wait, that is just totally Disney fake! Forever, then. Until some of us learn to learn. It is fine with me. Do you have any idea how long I had to wait for my heliocentric model to be confirmed, and widely adopted? And you think having neo-nazi editors on SoylentNews means anything to me, or to the Universe? Oh Mores! Oh Tempores! Huge Manatees!

      • (Score: 2, Insightful) by aristarchus on Thursday December 28 2017, @06:23AM (3 children)

        by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday December 28 2017, @06:23AM (#615009) Journal

        So, let's take a look at it, shall we?

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        Mainpage 12/28 09:34 Chatbots Could "Learn" About Words Using Implicit Confirmation takyon
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        Mainpage 12/28 06:22 DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March Anonymous Coward
        Mainpage 12/28 04:48 Handful of North Korean Defectors Show Signs of Radiation Exposure takyon
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        Mainpage 12/28 01:26 Planetary Resources' Arkyd-6 Ready for Launch takyon
        Mainpage 12/27 23:41 Skilled Manufacturing Workers in Demand in the U.S. takyon

        Notice anything? Yes, all but two are submitted by an editor. So we wonder why we run dry of submissions? Only driven fanatics like myself, hell-bent on messing with TMB's rightwing censorship on this site, bother to submit anything at all! I mean, it is nice that Redbox has red boxes, and nice that I can rent DVDs to rip, but why the constant bias on SoylentNews? A little less American stupid conservative, and a bit more enlightened citizen of the world, please?

        • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by aristarchus on Thursday December 28 2017, @06:26AM (2 children)

          by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday December 28 2017, @06:26AM (#615012) Journal

          Only on SoylentNews could a "no comment" get this much down modding. Do you think The Donald would have to put up with this? That is, if he could actually say just "no comment".

          • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Thursday December 28 2017, @12:36PM (1 child)

            by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday December 28 2017, @12:36PM (#615074) Journal

            Aristarchus, seriously, I say this with love: go outside and play. Running a multi-installment Offtopic sub-thread by yourself is not healthy.

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            Washington DC delenda est.