DVD vending kiosks to hit our shores
The kiosks, which each hold 621 DVDs, are touchscreen-operated and work on a pay-as-you-go basis; when you return the film, your card is debited £2 for every 24 hours you've kept the DVD, up to 21 days.
"The DVD rental market has faced big changes in recent years," says Carlos Marco Rider, the young entrepreneur behind the MovieBooth concept. "By eliminating space and staffing costs, our kiosks can offer the most competitive DVD rental prices in the UK and Ireland."
But while bricks-and-mortar rental businesses like Blockbuster continue to struggle, online-only models such as Lovefilm.com are still reaping the rewards of a changing rental market, renting over 2.5 million DVDs per month to 600,000 active subscribers.
However, both delivery methods could still be trounced by VoD (video on demand) services, should the infrastructure (bandwidth, optical cabling) ever improve to a point where uptake becomes possible for more than a lucky few. Watch this space...
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we had those here once, but in the last few years all video rentals are going bankrupt in the netherlands, not because of piracy but because of low dvd costs.
America is always a bit late on adopting new things, they call 512KB internet, broadband (for 19$, almost everywhere in Europe u get 4 to 20mbps for the same amount of cash.)
This is old, they have had a 24/7 for about 2 years round the corner from me and this is a store that is just vending machines