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Movie Burning Kiosks Coming To Retailers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the halfway-and-no-good dept.

Vitaly Friedman writes "The motion picture industry is in talks with some major retailers about installing DVD burning kiosks in stores. It's an interesting idea, but one that almost entirely misses the point. Hollywood's movie distribution system is in dire need of a fix - very few will dispute that. Movie attendance has been suffering, DVD sales are slumping, and all the industry has managed to do is come up with a half-baked, unpopular download service and a scant handful of simultaneous releases. In another attempt to sort of give consumers what they want, the motion picture industry is thinking about allowing retailers to set up in-store kiosks for distribution."

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  1. Movie burning? by MadFarmAnimalz · · Score: 5, Funny

    For a second, I thought this had something to do with the proper disposal of movies like Battlefield Earth...

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    Blearf. Blearf, I say.
  2. I have one already... by AudioEfex · · Score: 4, Funny

    I already have a movie-burning kiosk in my home.

    It's called BitTorrent. :)

    AE