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Oct 01, 2007 -- DVD-burning kiosks on the way

Have you ever walked into a fast food restaurant or a supermarket and rented new movies for a dollar per day? The DVDs are typically housed in a kiosk that's the size of a soda vending machine. The selection is usually limited to a hundred or so titles at most. But imagine walking in and being able to select from a catalog of thousands of films. The kiosk would then burn you a DVD copy to rent or buy. This is the next development that's coming down the pike. It's going to be like having the world's biggest Blockbuster or the entire Netflix catalog at your fingertips. The technology for this advancement has existed for a while, but the major movie studios had concerns about these burned DVDs being pirated. Now that those issues have been addressed, The Wall Street Journal reports that chains like Walgreens hope to get in front of this trend and place DVD-burning kiosks in their stores. Once the initial bugs are worked out, this service is going to be incredibly convenient for consumers.

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