NCR Unveils DVD Vending Kiosks For Airports

And the hits from the Airports Council International (ACI) exhibit floor keep coming.  I had the chance to visit with NCR and see a demonstration of its new Xpress Entertainment kiosk, which allows travelers to rent DVDs right at the airport.

You can click here to see my amateur video demonstrating how the kiosk works.  One unique feature is that NCR places an RFID tag on all the DVDs that travelers rent, allowing the company to remotely perform a physical inventory of the kiosk to validate product inventory at anytime.

And speaking of movies, I also had the chance to see a demonstration from Fadow -- which stands for Fast Download.  Fadow can distribute digital content - movies, TV shows, travel guides, games and more -- to travelers directly onto a thumb drive using its Moviecles kiosk.  it takes only minutes for an 800 Meg file (the length of an average movie) to download.  You can use your own, or get one from Fadow.

The Moviecles is being tested for six months at Boston-Logan International Airport.  You can click here for Fadow's photo stream on Flickr.

And last, but certainly not least, I had the pleasure of meeting Harriet Baskas, USA Today and MSNBC travel columnist and keeper of the wonderful "Stuck At The Airport" blog, at the ACI conference.  It's nice to see that at least one other person shares my obsession with airports!  You can click here to see some of the things Harriet saw while she was on the ACI exhibit floor.

Comments

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Sounds like fadow doesn't quite have the pieces put together yet..

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