First Stage of Deployment to Begin in Third Quarter of 2008, With Opportunity for Larger Scale National Rollout; Vending Kiosks Allow for Future Applications like Digital Downloads Blockbuster Inc.

BELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) -- With more subscribers than ever flocking to its DVD-by-mail service, Netflix Inc. is one of the few companies to prosper during the worst U.S. recession in 70 years. Yet ...

MELROSE PARK, Ill. -- Jewel-Osco here, a banner under Albertsons, Boise, Idaho, began testing DVD vending machines in four stores this month, according to retail sources at the grocery and drug store ...

Gone are the days when wanting to rent your favourite flick meant waiting in long queues at the local DVD library. Gone are the days when wanting to rent your favourite flick meant waiting in long ...

MINNEAPOLIS - The big red vending machine at the McDonald's whirrs and hums and spits out rental DVDs of Chicken Little and King Kong - and maybe, if McDonald's is lucky, profits. Machines run by ...