DVD sales

Walt Disney is increasing the wholesale prices it charges for DVDs to movies-by-mail leader Netflix and movie-rental kiosk operator Redbox. Disney is looking to benefit further from being the only major studio to sell DVDs to the companies for rental the day they go on sale to the public.

That's the price tag for a Prima Cinema system that'll let you watch the latest releases at home from day one. The cost is sure to keep the market small, for now at least. The promise is that this is just the first step to more widespread at-home distribution.

Paramount Pictures is extending a deal through 2014 with Redbox to provide its movies on the same day they go on sale. The deal won't do anything for your pocketbook at the $1-per-night kiosk rental, but may mean faster access to Paramount titles than for those of other studios, which generally...

Under the renewed agreements with the studios, there's a 28-day window in which new-release DVDs won't be available on Netflix. This echoes a similar deal the online movie rental service struck with Time Warner in January.

The great thing about holidays is not spending money to show you care; it is scoring great bargains for things you have been waiting to buy! If HBO DVDs are on your wish list, check out Amazon's Gold Box for HBO Week, Feb. 1-5, 2010. I peeked at prices and some of the best deals are for...

Redbox, the bright red kiosks 17,000 strong around the country that rent new and old releases for a mere buck a day, have long been the bain of studio releases. Whereas studios get a portion of rentals from Blockbuster and Netflix, Redbox offers no such deal, forking over only the cost of the...