Blockbuster is now offering movie rental kiosks, presumably at airports, where you can whip out a blank SD format memory card, head to the kiosk, pay $4 with a credit card transaction, and have a movie that will tie you over if you don’t like the in-flight entertainment options. The movie rental franchise is hoping that you’d prefer the quality of movies over streaming contents or rather not avoid the hassle of dealing with finding WiFi or tolerating a slower 3G network to download a feature film.

Reports say that the rentals will work on SD cards. SD cards, while still popular, aren’t found on that many modern, smaller sized smartphones, making many to believe that the idea is obsolete the day it is launched. That means you’ll probably need to also port around a micro SD to SD adapter to watch your rentals on your Windows phone.

The rented flicks will be time-bombed with DRM so that they expire after a set time. The report doesn’t indicate what form the movies will be stored in or what resolutions they will arrive with; some phones can’t play high resolution movies because their processors can’t handle them.

(via: Gizmodo via Fast Company)