Shelly Palmer

Netflix And Disney Butt Heads Over The DVD Rental Window

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While movie studios including Disney, Warner Brothers, Fox and others are trying to implement rental windows, rental companies such as Netflix and Redbox are looking to bypass them. The rental window is a time period between the day the DVDs go on sale and the day the rental companies can rent them out. Netflix has entered into such agreements with several movie studios, but it appears that the company could not negotiate with Disney. As a result, Netflix as well as Redbox have resorted to buying DVDs of Disney’s recent releases from retailers such as Wal-Mart. Read the full story at Forbes.