Items tagged with 'Rentals'

Blockbuster On Demand Movie Rentals Finally Live On TiVo

Blockbuster On Demand Movie Rentals Finally Live On TiVo

Both Blockbuster and TiVo confessed that a partnership was in the works, and now we've finally got the confirmation we so desperately yearn for. Starting right now, TiVo owners (that includes Series2, Series3, TiVo HD and TiVo HD XL users) can access Blockbuster's growing library of On Demand films right from their set-top... Read More
Vudu's Movie Rentals Come To LG's Networked BD390 Blu-ray Player

Vudu's Movie Rentals Come To LG's Networked BD390 Blu-ray Player

Vudu has certainly come a long way during its brief existence in the world of home entertainment. Starting out as a company peddling standalone movie boxes, the outfit has morphed into a software solutions provider that puts its iconic software and UI onto devices that people are already looking to buy. No extra mess, same... Read More
Redbox Now Offering 24 Hour Video Game Rentals For $2

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
Netflix Adds Facebook Connect, Personalization

Netflix Adds Facebook Connect, Personalization

It's pretty amazing, really. While Blockbuster has withered as the world shifted from in-store DVD rentals to by-mail rentals and now to streaming rentals, Netflix has managed to keep itself relevant by staying one step ahead of the curve. Rather than pushing out its own proprietary "Netflix box," it instead created software... Read More
Vudu Now Offers 99 Cent Movie Rentals

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!

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

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?

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
Blockbusted! Movie rentals of today-and tomorrow

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