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.