Fox's Rental DVDs Will Be Crippled, Lack Special Features

Fox plans to make two classes of discs, one version for retail and another, crippled, version for rental stores. More »

Blockbuster Fires Off Email Notifying Customers of Price Increase

What kind of price war is this? Yesterday we saw proof of Netflix cutting a dollar off its three-disc at-a-time plan resulting in a $15.99 monthly tariff, and today a tipster shows us an email from Blockbuster talking about raising prices. But there's some good news in that email for existing customers. More »

MovieKlub Destructo-Disks to Begin Short March to Extinction?

MovieKlub, yet another mail-order DVD service, is set to begin this summer offering two DVDs a week for $24.99 per month. But MovieKlub is a bit different, because it foolishly re-hashes an idea that failed miserably in the past. Remember Divx, that ill-fated Circuit City idea that let you keep discs that expired after viewing? That's similar to what happens with MovieKlub disks. As soon as you expose a disk three times to the laser light of your DVD player, it won't play any more. Using a die that is bleached by light absorption, the disk is able to detect when you've played it three times, and then, it's toast. But you can keep that disk if you want, or send it back to MovieKlub for recycling. More »