MOD Systems laid off its remaining employees and ceased operations in May 2011. We appreciate all the support we received from investors, customers and partners. If you are interested in a license to any of MOD Systems’ technology or patents, please contact info@modsystems.com

MOD Systems has had a very busy year punctuated by the launch of our first two commercial customers. We have developed an end-to-end digital content distribution system that delivers digital movies and music to retail and other out-of-home locations through self-service kiosks. MOD is the only company in the U.S. with broad rights from music labels and movie studios to deliver premium entertainment content in a retail setting using SD cards, USB drives, and flash memory in portable media players and smartphones.

We’re very excited to announce the launch of our digital music download kiosks, with customers of Quick Chek stores along the eastern seaboard the first to tap a new fast and easy way to build their digital music collections. Music fans can now buy DRM-free MP3s from our Download2Go digital music kiosks in Quick Chek stores in New York and New Jersey, with additional retail partners coming soon!

This week we launched a brand new website to help consumers discover all that our Download2Go kiosks have to offer.  Download2Go.com provides everything consumers need to know about downloading music and movies from a Download2Go kiosk and playing it back wherever they go.

Given the changing behavior across many demographics from physical to digital media, one of the most persistent questions becomes: how can a brick-and-mortar retailer remain relevant in the movie/music space and how will it leverage digital media to maintain brand awareness and drive store traffic?

We’re hitting the road again. MOD execs have been busy presenting on digital entertainment trends this fall, and will do the same at two important upcoming events. Stop on by, meet with us and discuss digital download kiosks and anything else that’s on your mind.

For the last few months we have been working with the folks over at the Entertainment Merchants Association to bring something new and exciting to their one-day conference called Digital Media Pipeline. The Digital Media Pipeline event focuses on opportunities in the digital delivery of home entertainment to the consumer - a perfect pairing for MOD. We just got back from the conference and it was a huge success.

Together with partner NCR Corporation, we are very excited to bring digital movies to even more travelers. Today, we announced we have expanded our first commercial deployment of the Download2Go™ digital kiosks to include 20 InMotion Entertainment stores in 12 U.S. airports.

MOD Systems has entered one of the most exciting times in the company’s history, with the first commercial deployment of our digital entertainment download kiosks, developed in partnership with NCR. This is the world’s first digital kiosk of its kind, and kicks off an aggressive expansion phase for MOD. With that, we are happy to announce more than $6 million in capital raised to support our growth. Existing investors led this new round of financing, and we’ll use the capital to support additional retail deployment efforts and continued R&D.

We’ve been speaking with the good folks at Futuresource for a few years about the cross industry adoption of digital entertainment. They have a firm grasp on the supply chain impact of a move from physical/optical media to digital, and how that impact is driving economic and environmental change. The results of this research are outlined in an extensive report titled “Value Added by Retail Digital Entertainment Systems: An Economic and Environmental Analysis,

MOD Systems is working with the Entertainment Merchant’s Association to deliver digital movies and materials on SD cards to attendees of the Digital Media Pipeline conference September 15 in Los Angeles. No more plastic bags filled with papers and index cards, or tchotckes that grab your kids’ attention more than your own.

If you’ve been looking for an overview about flash memory and its importance in the overall consumer entertainment market of music, movies, TV shows, there is a newly published white paper by Screen Digest: “The Role of Portable Flash in the Home Entertainment Ecosystem (and what it means for Retailers)”. You can download it free from our website here.

Here at MOD we strongly believe portable, no-compromise digital entertainment is the future – for studios, retailers, device manufacturers, and of course consumers. In order to deliver on this vision, we had to enable our kiosks to securely load movies and TV shows to a storage device that could then be used to play back anywhere – without requiring an Internet connection.

Our team has been heads-down working on several new initiatives that we’re really proud of and excited to share with you. Today, we’re launching two new websites, this blog, and drum roll… our first nationwide rollout of our digital download kiosk solution for retailers.