- DVDINSIDER: DVD Rental Revenues Continue To Rise At
Record-Breaking Rate.
DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). DVD rental revenues continue on their record-breaking pace, having surpassed $2 billion for the current year, and continue to claim an ever-increasing percentage of the home video rental market, according to Bo Andersen, president of the ......
- Blockbuster Puts On Its Game Face
Dallas— With its core video rental business under assault by DVD subscription services, and widespread adoption of direct movie downloads looming ahead, Blockbuster has gotten busy retooling its business model. In the last few months, the former Viacom unit has changed management, bolstered its gaming offerings, launched its own subscription ......
- Rental Spending Up 8% In Q1
With home video executives and retailers predicting high interest in the DVD format for at least the next three years (Billboard, April 5), it is not surprising that DVD helped create a new record for rental revenue in first-quarter 2003, according to the Los Angeles-based Video Software Dealers Assn. (VSDA).
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DVD rental units overtook VHS rentals for the first time in the week ended June 15, according to the Los Angeles-based Video Software Dealers Assn. Consumers rented a total of 28.2 million DVDs that week, compared with 27.3 million VHS cassettes. Weekly DVD rental revenue has already exceeded weekly VHS ......
- Coordination of quantity and shelf-retention timing in
the video movie rental industry.
1. Introduction The video rental industry has recently been the subject of intense interest from the operations management community (Drezner and Pasternack, 1999; Dana and Spier, 2001; Pasternack, 2001; Lariviere and Cachon, 2002). This interest was generated by a change in the type of contract video rental chains (e.g., Blockbuster ......
- Wal-Mart Home Video Sales Jump $1 Billion
The explosion of DVD fueled a $1 billion increase in Wal-Mart's home video software business in 2001.
- DVD Rentals Up 126% in 1Q
Consumers rented more DVDs in the first quarter of 2002 than in they did in the entire year of 2000.