Items tagged with 'Rental'
Redbox Now Offering 24 Hour Video Game Rentals For $2
There's little doubt that media buying is changing. iTunes is selling more and more singles while physical disc sales dwindle. GameStop is hiring executives to manage digital aspects of business. And Redbox is dabbling in video games after years of sticking to DVDs and Blu-ray Discs alone.You heard that right--the famous... Read More
Blockbuster OnDemand Coming To Samsung Wares
Whatever you can do, I can do better. That's the saying that Samsung and Blockbuster have evidently taken to heart, as the tandem has joined up to match Sony and Netflix's streaming announcement with one of their own. The Blockbuster movie services are slated to go live this fall, the same time in which Sony BRAVIA TVs... Read More
Netflix's Shipping Plan May Earn You a Freebie
Netflix has announced a new shipping procedure which if the movie you’ve requested isn’t available from your local distribution center, may net you a freebie in the form of the next highest up movie in your queue. Netflix says they have 55 shipping centers across the country, so if your choice is not available in your local... Read More
Vudu Now Offers 99 Cent Movie Rentals
Vudu might be on to something with its new promotion: "Stay in. Rent four movies for the price of 1 gallon gas!" At today's prices for movie tickets, concession snacks, and the cost of gas for getting to and from the theater, a family of four could easily spend upwards of a $100 for a night out at the movies. Staying at... Read More
iTunes: We Need More Rentals Cap'n!
Despite Apple's promise of 1000 movies available for rental by the end of January, iTunes has less than half of that available in the start of March. The good news is that of the 384 available movies 91 of those are supposedly high-definition. The bad news? Not all of those 91 titles would really measure... Read More
Extend iTunes Rentals Forever. Oops, We're Wrong
Gizmodo thought they had come up with a way to fool iTunes into giving them an extended video rental. They tried mucking with the system clock when downloading the video. Oops, they were wrong.Alright so it appears to no longer work. Here's what happened on our end. Before, we had set our computer date to 2009,... Read More
iTunes Movie Rentals?
In recent years Apple has “accidentally” revealed upcoming products and services on a fairly regular basis. They do this either in their on-line store, or sometimes just in parts of their own software that aren't unlocked until a revision comes out.That would seem to be the case with the new iTunes movie rental service:“Movie... Read More
Avis: Let Them Have Their Rental, And Wi-Fi Too.
You know it's a good time to be a techie when coffee shops, fast food joints and even car rental companies like Avis are helping you stay connected anywhere you go. In fact, it's just a good time for anyone who wants to stay connected as often as possible with companies like Avis paving the way to a more connected tomorrrow.... Read More
Blockbusted! Movie rentals of today-and tomorrow
Digging around for a good movie on a rainy weekend, like we've been having up here in the Northeast recently, can be a challenge for sure. Team Ars thinks brick and mortar movie rentals are going the way of the dino and we'd have to agree. Netflicks sent me an application in the mail recently...... Read More
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