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bad deals
Sony Hunts For Morons Willing To Pay $25 To Rent A Movie
Has Sony got a deal for you if you've got a Sony Bravia HDTV that can connect to the internet: Rent Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 30 days early for the low, low price of $24.95. Movie blogger Colin Boyd gushes about the fantastic offer on his site (citing a ZDNet story), Get the Big Picture: More » -
netflix
Netflix Will Screw You For The Right Price
Hollywood studios are sick of you renting their DVDs and want you to start buying them again. The way to trick you into this, they figure, is to withhold the discs from rental companies for a month, forcing you to get all antsy and run out and buy them. More » -
video wars
DVD Price War: Harry Potter, Star Trek For $10
Walmart announced yesterday that it will be slashing prices to below wholesale on 10 of the most popular DVDs that will be released soon, says the LA Times. Target announced that it will be matching Walmart. Amazon has not yet responded. More » -
Netflix streaming
How To Make Your PS3 Stream Netflix
Netflix isn't dragging its feet as it sets up its on demand streaming service on the PlayStation 3. After announcing the feature last week, Netflix has started sending out discs that let PS3 owners with Netflix subscriptions partake in the streaming. More » -
video wars
Streaming Movies: Best Buy Preparing For A World Without DVDs
Best Buy announced a "a Best Buy-branded offering, available starting early next year," that will stream "first-run DVDs" online directly to consumers, says the NYT Bits Blog. More » -
netflix
Check Your Netflix Envelopes This Week For Blu-ray Coupon
Hacking Netflix spotted some sweet savings on the inside of envelopes sent out by the movie rent-by-mail service: $50 off coupons that would bring the price of an Insignia Blu-ray player down to about $100 or $150. The coupon expires Saturday. More » -
home video
Walmart Move Could Render DVD Sales DOA
The Wall Street Journal reports Walmart is cutting back DVD displays as part of its effort to appeal to "higher-end" (read: Target) shoppers. More » -
lawsuits
Redbox Sues Warner Bros. And Asks For Help From Consumers
Concerned that rentals are hacking into DVD sales profits, Warner Bros. has restricted rental companies such as Redbox and Neftlix from offering its movies until 28 days after movies hit retail shelves. More » -
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redbox
What Should I Do When Redbox Has Indigestion?
John, like many people, enjoys renting movies from Redbox kiosks and does so frequently. Recently, the machine wouldn't accept his disc back. It's not a huge inconvenience, but he started to wonder why he, the customer, needs to go out of his way due to a problem on the company's end. More » -
cheap stuff
Have Your Way With Blockbuster For $10 A Week
Looking for a way to stop the hemorrhaging, Blockbuster is offering a clever little promotion to lure mega-movie geeks back into its dusty aisles for one more fling. The Summer Escape Pass offers all-you-can watch for $10 a week. More » -
scams
Is The NRA Trying To Trick Its Members Into Paying For This DVD?
Arthur, a member of the NRA, received a promotional DVD out of the blue about six months ago. As we've discussed before and as Arthur points out, if you're sent something that you never ordered, you don't have to pay for it, return it, or acknowledge it. The NRA said as much in their letter to Arthur.
Months later, however, he started receiving notices that asked him to either pay for the DVD or return it. More »
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That end-of-the-school-year DVD may have been homemade by the teacher, but that doesn't mean it can't pack an accidental porno cherrybomb. An elementary school teacher in Sacramento mistakenly included 6 seconds of a "home movie" in a compilation she sent home to students. Click through to the article for an awesome photo illustration of how adults think kids react to gross-out grownup stuff. [SFGate] (Thanks to Paul!) (Photo: Adactio)
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blu-ray
A Dagger For Blu-Ray: GameStop Deems Discs Un-Tradeworthy
Blu-ray sales may be on the uptick, with sales up 72 percent so far over what they were last year at this point, but apparently the format isn't so hot at GameStop, which is apparently phasing out accepting the high-definition movie discs in return for cash or store credit. More » -
whoops
This Harry Potter Blu-Ray Set Requires A HD-DVD Player
Best Buy is still selling a defective Harry Potter Blu-Ray set that contains a HD-DVD version of the Goblet of Fire. The bumbled bundles were first discovered in 2007, but reader Bill found one sitting on a Best Buy shelf in Grand Junction, CO. More » -
diy
Recycle Old CDs Into An iPhone or iPod Dock
Do you have a dozen or so unusable CDs or DVDs lying around, some glue and tools, and a burning need for a cool-looking iPod or iPhone dock? Geeky Gadgets can show you how to combine all of these things into a functional, and fashionably recycled, gadget.
DIY: Recycled CD iPhone Dock [Geeky Gadgets] (via Lifehacker)
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silly
Target Is Somewhat Liberal When It Comes To "Kids" Programming
Hey, where was Target back in the day when our parents were looking for a babysitter? The one we had wouldn't let us watch anything cool. Certainly not anything with a huge "CENSORED" sticker on the front of it. More » -
movie rentals
Watch Out For Throttling If You're On A Blockbuster Rental Plan
Robert's recent experience with his local Blockbuster just underscores how ill-equipped the rental chain is to compete against Netflix and new-star-on-the-block Redbox. Whether Robert has caught them deliberately throttling his account, or he's just the victim of a poorly implemented system, it's not the kind of customer experience you should have to settle for anymore. More » -
amazing inventions
Judge May Or May Not Allow Most Awesome DVD Player Ever To Hit Market
Let's start with an explanation of why there's an Arizona Cardinals jet pictured in a story about a new DVD player: Because the Cardinals' out-of-nowhere NFC championship earlier this year has so far only been matched in miraculousness by one other development — the advent of Facet, a DVD player that lets you save movies to an internal hard drive. More »
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