DVD

Earnings: Blockbuster Swings To Profit In Q1 As Revenues Drop 5.4 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 15 May 2008 06:04 AM PST

While movie renter Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) saw Q1 profits of $45.4 million ($0.20 per diluted share) compared to last year’s $49 million net loss, the closing of over 400 retail…

DVD Kiosk Operator Redbox To File For IPO - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 02 May 2008 11:37 AM PST

Redbox, the distributor of DVDs via kiosk, plans to file for an IPO sometime during the current quarter, reports VideoBusiness (via NTV). The company, which is majority owned by publicly…

Day And Date Movies Starting on iTunes; Warner Bros’ Will Do It For VOD and Online - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 30 Apr 2008 11:40 PM PST

It was only a matter of, well, days, before day-and-date would arrive for the VOD and online release of movies, and it has: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is expected to announce…

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Netflix Takes A Drubbing; Stock Down Over 23 Percent After Earnings - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 22 Apr 2008 12:42 PM PST

Ouch: Yesterday’s after-hours action was rough for Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), but today’s trading is even worse. With the trading day almost over, shares are down over 23 percent, as investors…

Earnings: Netflix Q1 Revs Up 7 Percent; Income Up 32 Percent; 3 More Partners For the Box - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 21 Apr 2008 01:08 PM PST

Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) has announced Q1 revenue of $326.2 million, a 7 percent increase from $305.3 million in the year-ago period. Net income rose 32 percent to $13.4 million ($.23…

3i/BV-Backed DVD Trading Site Peerflix Closing Down Main Service - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 24 Mar 2008 11:02 PM PST

Peerflix, the Palo Alto, CA-based online DVD trading platform, is in the process of closing down its main swapping service, after adoption and reliability issues, reports Webware. It will continue…

Microsoft To Drop HD DVD Players For Xbox 360; Slashes Prices On Last Units - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 24 Feb 2008 09:39 PM PST

With the HD DVD format formally declared dead by Toshiba, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), once one of its head cheerleaders, is announcing its own plans: the company will stop production of…

It’s Official: Toshiba Gives Up On HD DVD; To Be Out By End Of March - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 19 Feb 2008 04:56 AM PST

The reports were right on: Toshiba is quitting the HD DVD business, leaving Blu-ray as the last format standing. The recent history is well known, as Blu-ray has racked up…

Toshiba To Withdraw Its HD DVD Format: Reports - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 16 Feb 2008 11:46 PM PST

Toshiba is about to give up on its HD DVD format after a string of major setbacks, reports Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) and WSJ, citing sources. Thus ends the grueling battle…

Netflix And Best Buy Choose Blu-ray Over HD DVD - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 11 Feb 2008 07:04 AM PST

Updated below: Online movie renter Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is switching over to Blu-ray exclusively, following four major movie studios in selecting the Sony (NYSE: SNE) technology over the HD DVD…

Lovefilm Buying Two Of Amazon’s European DVD Rental Businesses - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 04 Feb 2008 04:16 AM PST

Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is selling its UK and German online DVD rental businesses to London-based Lovefilm for an undisclosed sum and making a cash investment that sees it become the…

Earnings: Netflix Q4 Revs Up 9 Percent And Income Up 6 Percent; 18 Percent Subscriber Growth - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 23 Jan 2008 02:06 PM PST

Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) has reported Q4 revenue of $302.3, up 9 percent from $277.2 million in the year-ago period. Net income rose 6 percent, to $15.7 million from $14.8 million.…

Toshiba Steps Up HD DVD Push Post-CES; Slashes Player Prices - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 14 Jan 2008 02:00 PM PST

Now, Toshiba is fighting back—a week after the death-bed stories, if not obits, in response, first, to Warner Bros.’s embrace of Blu-Ray from Sony (NYSE: SNE) and then to Universal’s…

Universal Ending Its HD DVD Exclusivity - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 09 Jan 2008 06:19 PM PST

What a week for the two camps: after Warner Bros. pulled out of HD DVD camp, and denials by Paramount of going completely Blu-Ray, comes the news from Variety that…

Paramount Denies Plans To Quit Toshiba’s HD DVD For Blu-ray - 4 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 08 Jan 2008 02:12 PM PST

So now it turns out that the DVD format wars aren’t completely over after all. Viacom’s (NYSE: VIA) Paramount Pictures is denying earlier reports (see our post here) that the…

Paramount Ready To Defect From HD DVD To Blu-ray: Report - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 08 Jan 2008 05:56 AM PST

It looks like Toshiba’s booth at CES is going to look a little lonelier: Paramount is ready to switch its allegiance from HD DVD in light of Warner Bros. Entertainment’s…

Updated: Warner Bros. Goes Exclusive With Sony’s Blu-Ray; Toshiba ‘Quite Surprised’ - 3 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 04 Jan 2008 03:23 PM PST

In the timing-is everything-department, Warner Bros. Entertainment picked the Friday before CES to announce its preference for Sony’s (NYSE: SNE) Blu-ray DVD format over Toshiba’s HD DVD—and the week after…

Fox In Movie Rental Deal With Apple For iTunes; DVDs Will Allow Ripping To PC And iPods - 3 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 26 Dec 2007 06:40 PM PST

As had been speculated earlier in the month, News Corp (NYSE: NWS). and its studio Twentieth Century Fox have signed a deal with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to allow users to…

Microsoft Combines IPTV, Media Center, And HD DVD Efforts - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 23 Dec 2007 04:25 AM PST

Another tweak in Microsoft’s (NSDQ: MSFT) digital home efforts: it has quietly folded its IPTV software, Media Center, and HD DVD efforts into a single organization, known as the Connected…

Blockbuster Raises Total Access Prices; Curbs Money-Losing Program - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 21 Dec 2007 12:45 PM PST

Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) is boosting prices at its Total Access service, which lets customers rent DVDs over the internet and in stores. During last quarter’s conference call, the company said…

Universal Offers HD Movie For Download On Vudu At The Same Time As DVD - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 10 Dec 2007 09:26 PM PST

Universal Pictures is testing the sale of downloadable HD versions of a movie the same day the DVD is released—digital movies to TV service Vudu will offer a HD version…

In Hi-Def DVD Wars, Warners’ Choice May Tip It in Blu-Ray’s Favor, Once And For All - 4 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 10 Dec 2007 11:54 AM PST

After two years of relative stalemate in the battle between Sony (NYSE: SNE) Electronic’s Blu-ray and Toshiba’s HD DVD to claim the title of dominant hi-def DVD format, it has…

Studios Unveil DVD Copying Schemes; Aim To Provide Piracy Alternative - 2 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 21 Nov 2007 06:20 AM PST

The good news: Movie studios recognize that strict DRM on DVDs helps make piracy and illegal downloading an attractive route for consumers so various schemes are now being rolled out…

Macrovision Buys Blu-ray DVD Security Tools Cryptography Research For Up To $60 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 19 Nov 2007 08:39 AM PST

Updated: The price of acquisition is $45 million in cash and Macrovision (NSDQ: MVSN) may issue up to $15 million in stock based on performance, according to an SEC filing.…

Earnings: Blockbuster Q3 Net Loss Widens 41.7 Percent; Revs Fall 5.7 Percent - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 01 Nov 2007 05:16 AM PST

Pinning its poor Q3 performance primarily on costs related to closure and sell off of over 500 retail stores, video rental service Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) posted an expanded net loss…