First Online DVD Rental Launch In UK, December
News The UK's first online DVD rental service will launch 1 December. The US has a number of successful online DVD rental services. London based MovieTrak.com will begin by stocking 500 DVD titles, which will be offered for rental at its site for £2.99...
[November 5, 1999, 7:32]
Process Of Renting DVDs Online Granted Patent
News Netflix has been granted a wide-ranging patent encompassing its online DVD rental service, in a win that could pose a legal speed bump to Wal-Mart's entry into the business. Netflix spokeswoman Lynn Brinton pointed out the resemblance between the...
[June 25, 2003, 14:09]
Video Vision Plus
Downloads Video Vision Plus is an up to date windows based program for managing your video rental, game rental, or DVD rental store. Use of the program's interface can be grasped in minutes and yet along with all the standard store management functionality...
[April 1, 2008, 23:31]
EasyReach For BlackBerry
Downloads Buy gifts for anyone in your address book, add a DVD rental to your Netflix queue, buy books from Amazon.com or select from thousands products from hundreds of of retailers anytime, anyhere. Access files on remote desktop PCs or EasyReach online...
[April 2, 2007, 13:16]
Heavyweights Back DVD, Ink Deal
News Blockbuster Video, which has been steadily increasing the number of its stores offering DVD films for rental, is planning to roll out the service to 550 UK stores in the next few weeks. It will include Toshiba's SD2109B DVD player, 3 Warner DVD...
[August 24, 1999, 16:29]
Inside The Online Movie Underground
News Movies released in VCD format are generally "Screeners," which movie companies send to rental stores while the movies are still in theaters. DeCSS, a hack of the DVD encryption scheme widely distributed online, led to a lawsuit against the popular...
[May 15, 2000, 16:19]
Trademarks May Stymie Online Searches
News Netflix built its popular Internet DVD rental store on the backs of small online marketing partners. The strategy is efficient: marketers bid for placement related to keywords such as on "online movie rentals" or "Netflix" and pay only when Web...
[August 20, 2003, 11:04]
1999 - Year Of DVD?
News It's rental partner, NetFlix.com, could not be reached for comment. "The big surprise for us this Christmas was DVD," said Julie Wainwright, CEO and founder of online video seller Reel.com. The share of movie sales in the DVD format jumped from 10...
[January 4, 1999, 8:47]
Think Napster -- Only For Movies
News DivX shares a name with the now-defunct DIVX video rental project started by US electronics store Circuit City only by accident, according to Michael Saunders of Melbourne, Australia, who maintains the most popular DivX information Web page.
[May 12, 2000, 15:27]
DVD Site Makes Wall Street Debut
News Online DVD rental company Netflix had a successful Wall Street debut on Thursday. The company charges US consumers a $19.95 per month subscription fee, which allows them to choose movies online and have them shipped out via first-class mail.
[May 23, 2002, 17:23]
DVD Set To Boom But Is Not Without Its Challengers
News Although it is still some years away, VoD will provide users with instant access to vast libraries of movies for rental. Spearheading the challenge to DVD is the Internet and online services with video-on-demand representing the most significant...
[April 18, 2000, 9:05]
Matsushita To Test Pirate-proof DVDs
News Japan-based electronics maker Matsushita Electric Industrial is to test a movie rental system that combines DVD discs with file downloads. At the same time, viewers are saved the hassle of returning the disc to the rental store.
[June 9, 2003, 8:25]
HD-DVD Explodes On The Launchpad
Blog Comment Most people, I think, will be happy with the video rental model, and if that's deliverable over the Internet then that'll do them. I have others without so much as a DVD player but thousands (and I mean thousands) of downloaded movies they watch on...
[February 20, 2008, 11:14]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog AAM is an interesting bunch: it is running a major digital cinema rollout for the UK Film Council, it runs a DVD rental company and provides "business services" to its portfolio companies. Online property services, wine selling, one-stop baby...
[November 25, 2005, 17:20]
