Cost: $1 per rental

What to enjoy:
Found in a number of supermarkets and pharmacies, Blockbuster Express is Blockbuster’s video rental kiosk, allowing you to rent movies for $1 straight from the machine (which, yes, does look a lot like an ATM). As for rental fees, if you turn the DVD in past 9 pm the next day, you pay an extra dollar.

Features:
Blockbuster Express is out in competition with Redbox. Both offer instant rentals charging a dollar a day rentals and have hundreds of film available, however Blockbuster Express offers email coupons for free movies. The one drawback: Blockbuster Express doesn’t offer as many movie titles as Redbox, plus the machines aren’t nearly as widespread. Moreover, while Blockbuster does have a big name brand, they don’t have the ability to reserve films online, as Redbox does, but they are the new kid on the block and they promise to have more on the horizon.

News & Updates:
Video Business (8/12/09): – NCR-made machines expected to be in all Big Y stores by Sept. 3 – “Blockbuster is expanding its customer reach with a deal that will put Blockbuster Express DVD rental kiosks in Big Y grocery stores throughout Massachusetts and Connecticut.” {Read more}

Press Release:
Street Insider (8/17/09): NCR Accelerates Deployment of BLOCKBUSTER Express(TM) DVD-Rental Kiosks in Publix Super Markets – NCR Corporation has reached an agreement to operate its DVD rental kiosks in Publix Super Markets, the largest employee-owned grocery chain in the U.S. NCR plans to complete the installation of its BLOCKBUSTER Express DVD-rental kiosks in most Florida-area Publix stores by November 1. {Read more}