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Redbox Partners With Verizon To Launch Streaming Video Service

The Coinstar subsidiary today announced a new partnership with Verizon. The joint venture will launch in the second half of 2012 and be a subscription-based and "affordable service that will allow all consumers across the U.S. to enjoy the new and popular entertainment they want, whenever they choose, using the media and devices they prefer," the companies said.READ»

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What Will You Do With All Those Discs Now That Apple's Killing The DVD?

Apple's new MacBook Airs and Mac Mini desktop machines have one less hole than they used to: A CD-DVD slot. Apple thinks the spinning optical drive is done. And soon the rest of the computing world will follow.READ»

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Is Streaming Video Cannibalizing Amazon's DVD Sales?

Will DVD sales decline as Instant video becomes more popular on Amazon?READ»

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Will Redbox Net New Releases as Netflix Chases its Streams?

Netflix's latest agreement with Warner Bros. to wait 28-days before renting out new releases after they hit store shelves incited grumblings among movie lovers this week. They could especially lose out if the deal becomes the ...READ»

Redbox to 20th Century Fox: Time to Join the 21st Century

Hollywood studios are rapidly choosing up sides over Redbox's deceptively simple, but very disruptive DVD-rental kiosks. Today's players? Lions Gate gets it. And Fox doesn't.READ»

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Netflix: A Great or Terrible Place to Work?

Have you ever wondered how Netflix works? How those little red DVD envelopes get sorted, packaged and mailed to your home? Recent reports on the company paint two curiously different pictures.READ»