{"id":7552,"date":"2010-06-03T10:53:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T17:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=7552"},"modified":"2018-08-08T17:22:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T17:22:10","slug":"redbox-adds-blu-ray-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/redbox-adds-blu-ray-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"Redbox Adds Blu-ray Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9488\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Redbox-S.jpg\" alt=\"Redbox-S\" width=\"292\" height=\"400\" \/>JUNE 3, 2010 \u2022 Redbox announced that it would be adding Blu-ray titles to its rental kiosks during the next few months. The high-definition discs will be priced at $1.50, compared to $1 for standard DVDs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: Consumer rental of discs is one of the biggest signs a format has reached the mass consumer, and priced at only $1.50 per rental it will surely get traction from Blu-ray owning consumers.\u00a0 While physical media may die off in the long term, it is still a viable market today and once the PlayStation 3 reaches the $199 price point we expect to see additional demand from consumers who would buy it for the movie viewing\/gaming combination. Sony has long promised that Blu-ray would be a standout feature for the PS3.\u00a0 Now that Blu-ray is starting to reach the mass market we tend to think that the Blu-ray feature is increasingly becoming an important distinction between the PS3 and competing systems.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNE 3, 2010 \u2022 Redbox announced that it would be adding Blu-ray titles to its rental kiosks during the next few months. The high-definition discs will be priced at $1.50, compared to $1 for standard DVDs. Impact: Consumer rental of discs is one of the biggest signs a format has reached the mass consumer, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[78],"tags":[84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7552"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13980,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552\/revisions\/13980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}