Comments on: Redbox, making rental ‘convenient’. Again.

By: The People Have Voted

The People Have Voted — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:17:45 +0000

With Their Wallets, and Redbox is the winner. Cheap, convenient, no obligation, simple. I can’t see how Universal has a legal leg to stand on–they know they will lose the suit, so are trying other tactics, such as stalling. Can’t hold back what the consumer wants, though, forever. The longer Universal and the other holdout studios wait to cut deals with Redbox, the bigger their damage will be, IMO.

By: surfer

surfer — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:39:32 +0000

redbox has no late fees, hahahahahhahah

they will charge you $1 for every day you have it, until 25 days have passed, then you own it.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:34:13 +0000

My friend wanted to buy the movie The Water Horse. He wanted the extra features and such. Since it was only available as a 2-Disc edition, he assumed that a copy from Redbox would include both discs. It didn’t. The disc it sold him was labelled as “Disc 1″, but there was no Disc 2.

By: Jack From Nashville

Jack From Nashville — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:42:02 +0000

A little talked about problem with redbox, is people taking out DVDs and not returning them. They don’t have a very effective collections department. Some folks might get a call if any. Lots of folks, are walking off with lots of DVDs ( A big problem in college towns)

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:40:07 +0000

Sounds like RedBox got the short end of that stick.

By: A_F

A_F — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:05:02 +0000

“in return for Redbox agreeing to destroy all previously viewed DVDs (vs sell them within Redbox kiosks and/or via third-party retailers).”

wait a second jon, does that mean, if I would find myself flying over the big ocean, to america, i could see something going on there with polycarbonate discs that I so far have only observed in my local supermarket where I get my “Einweg-Pfand” Money back?

That is, those kiosks where you get those DVD’s out have a mechanism that shredder the discs that the renter returns?

Now what a waste of scarce resources is that? One time viewed and then shredded?

reminds me of the “piracy the better choice” meme. if you have download and watched the film you can reuse the clusters for new “content” instead that you need to shred the HDD.