Store rentals had surpassed those from kiosks in the year-earlier period.
The store rentals would help to meet the bedroom and bath maintenance.
Blockbuster increased its Internet rental fee last month after ending late charges for store rentals cut revenue.
That puts them on a par with video store rentals, which have been falling, and on-demand revenue, which has grown more slowly.
Films on the site will be priced about the same as video store rentals and pay-per-view, said Salil Mehta, Disney's senior vice president for strategic planning.
They garner both store rentals and a slice of store sales proceeds.
And so we lost an institution and a great local character due to store rentals that have begun to rival Manhattan.
By the late 1990s and early 2000s, as late night Cinemax (skinemax) and XXX video store rentals were replaced by the internet, pornography became both ubiquitous and entirely hairless.
Blockbuster has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into building and promoting its online service as in-store rental revenues decline in the $9 billion rental industry.
Partly, I think, from the continuing slow-burning success in America, in video-store rental form, of Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet, starring cult teenage idols Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes, which was a refreshing, viscerally powerful reworking of Shakespeare's mawkish early tragedy.
