Redbox has launched a new site today, SaveLowCostDVDs.com, in an effort to make public the current lawsuits the company has against Universal Studios Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, and Warner Home Video.
The site shows off all related news stories to the suits, and also shows videos of Redbox president Mitch Lowe.
Redbox currently has 18,000 kiosks, and rents movies out for $1 USD per night. Studios like Universal, Fox, and Warner have pulled their new releases from the kiosks until one month after release date.
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Citing strong sales of ‘No Country for Old Men,’, the Blu-ray camp has now topped 9 million discs sold since its launch.
BD sales for the first 11 weeks of 2008 is about 3 million units, adding to the 6 million that the format had sold since its inception in Q2 2006. The sales are clearly stronger than past years and analysts predict 16 million sold total for 2008.
For the week ended March 16th, sales jumped to 319,000, buoyed by Disney’s ‘No Country for Old Men.’ The movie moved 68,000 Blu-ray copies in its first week, and destroyed all competitors for the week including the healthy selling new Blu-ray release “Hitman”.
In related news, HD DVD titles, now to be found for under $20 USD at most retailers continue to sell out and move at a vigorous pace after the format’s demise last month.
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The large Swedish-Finnish-based telecom operator TeliaSonera has announced that it has struck a deal with Apple to bring the popular iPhone to Northern European markets.
In its press release the company says “later this year” the carrier will begin selling the phone in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
When asked for more details, the carrier refused any more comment, and so there are no pricing models available as of yet.
Over the past month (see related news below), Apple has been striking deals with various carriers to bring the iPhone worldwide, hitting every continent minus Antarctica.
Orange has signed up to sell the phone in at least 12 markets in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the Caribbean. Vodafone is set to sell the phone in 10 countries including markets in South Africa and Australia. other providers have also inked deals to sell the phone in Singapore, India, the Philippines. Notably however, deals have fallen apart in the giant markets of Japan and China, but many still feel there is a chance they can be signed by the end of 2008.
