Redbox Sues Fox Over DVD Delay

NEW YORK Redbox Automated Retail has filed suit against 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment over the studio’s decision to impose a 30-day delay on making its new DVD releases available to the rental kiosk company.

Fox thus becomes the second studio targeted by Redbox in a lawsuit. Universal Studios Home Entertainment last year was sued after withholding its new DVD releases from Redbox by 45 days.

Redbox president Mitch Lowe, in a statement, intimated that while the suit works its way through the courts, the kiosk company would simply buy Fox DVDs at retail and rent them as soon as they come out, just as the company currently does with Universal Studios releases.

“Redbox’s cornerstone principles include providing customers with a convenient way to rent new release DVDs at an affordable price,” Lowe said.

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