Redbox announces its most-rented movie of 2011
With 2011 in the bag, Coinstar-owned DVD rental company Redbox has revealed which movies were the most-rented, by genre, throughout all of last year.
If you’d like to watch the 5-minute video ceremony, complete with cheesy clip art (c’mon Redbox, you have billions of dollars!), you can do so here. Or I can just spoil everything for you:
Most Rented Action Movie: Green Hornet
Most Rented Family Movie: Rango
Most Rented Horror Movie: Insidious
Blockbuster’s new streaming service is lame, only for Dish subscribers
We thought Dish Network would launch a Blockbuster-branded Netflix competitor, but instead it used a somewhat hyped event Friday to launch Blockbuster streaming movies and DVD-by-mail to just Dish subscribers.
Dish could have used this opportunity to introduce its own streaming service to compete with Netflix, which has had troubles in the last few months. Netflix has angered its customers by instituting a 60 percent price hike on combined streaming and physical DVD rental plans … Continue Reading
Dish and Blockbuster to introduce Netflix competitor Friday
Satellite TV operator Dish Network will announce a new Blockbuster-branded all-you-can-watch video streaming service on Friday, according to a CNNMoney report.
The move for Dish to create a Netflix rival is hardly surprising. Dish acquired Blockbuster in a bankruptcy auction for $320 million back in April and a month later Dish CEO Joe Clayton said he wanted to “take a small piece of the pie from Netflix” when it came to streaming video.
This seems … Continue Reading
Redbox jumps into video game rentals
Redbox, which runs several kiosks in stores that let individuals rent movie DVDs at cheap rates, announced Thursday that it is introducing video game rentals to around 21,000 of its kiosks.
The company had announced in April that it planned to bring video games to its kiosks. The games are now available to rent. The vending machines will feature some of the most popular games available to consumers today, including games like Call of Duty: … Continue Reading
Dish Network bids $1.38B for TerreStar Networks
TerreStar Networks on Wednesday revealed that Dish Network had placed an opening bid of $1.38 billion for the ailing telecommunications company’s assets through a bankruptcy auction, according to Reuters. TerreStar has operated under bankruptcy protection since Oct. 19.
Dish Networks likely wants TerreStar’s assests so it can acquire the company’s sought-after wireless spectrum, which could be used to build a wireless broadband network. The frequencies that Dish and TerreStar own are similar to what Sprint … Continue Reading
