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Posted on 5/15/17 at 7:16 am to TexasTiger1185
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Paying $1.50 is better than $5.
I still use redbox sometimes, I don't know why anyone wouldn't.
This.
I'm surprised that people are surprised that RedBox is still popular. It is much cheaper, of course people use RedBox.
Posted on 5/15/17 at 8:46 am to NIH
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I'm honestly amazed people still use RedBox
I think Red Box is still a reasonable option for rural people with slow or capped internet, both of which make streaming prohibitive.
Also, I could see gamers using it. I'm assuming it has games.
Anybody else..... no.
Posted on 5/15/17 at 9:06 am to Scoop
Even with just 30-50 movies, Redbox also has a better selection of new releases. Netflix and Amazon Prime's library for movies is for shite. Redbox has a pretty lousy selection as well, but at least it has a good rotation of new releases that constantly updates.
I don't even like Redbox and I see its obvious benefits to consumers.
I don't even like Redbox and I see its obvious benefits to consumers.
Posted on 5/15/17 at 9:19 am to Fewer Kilometers
I didn't realize that Redbox started out as a McDonald's thing.
Posted on 5/15/17 at 9:32 am to Warfarer
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I had to look up what it was and those were the ones that would only be good for 48 hours after you watched it the first time, so it was a low priced rental-ish DVD.
Correct. I'm almost certain it was a Circuit City format. I was working as an ad salesman at a local paper and one of my clients at this time was those guys. I told them once in a meeting that the format was idiotic and would fail. The reason everyone had a VCR wasn't to rent movies...that was a bonus. It was the ability to be able to record TV. That's the reason VCR's stuck around so long even though DVD's were superior. They could not record easily, an the ones that could were troublesome and expensive.
So In '98 and '99, DVD was a format like laser dics in that mostly people that were buying them were collectors. Average people were still chugging along with VCR's. I had worked at a bog video store in the early 90's and had had countless discussions with those folks. People buying laser discs were film fanatics, and they were the same ones buying the first DVD's.
I told them that it would fail because regular people would not switch formats until the next thing could replace what they had in its ability to record (I was less right on that) and that no one wanted to basically own a video rental store in their damn house, which is what this format forced you to do if you had any plans on watching it after 48 hours.
They pulled DivX about 6 months after that...it was kind of funny.
Posted on 5/15/17 at 9:37 am to GeauxTigerTM
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I was working as an ad salesman at a local paper and one of my clients at this time was those guys. I told them once in a meeting that the format was idiotic and would fail.
That's quite the sales pitch.
Posted on 5/15/17 at 10:24 am to TexasTiger1185
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Paying $1.50 is better than $5.
Meh. It's a matter of worth vs. cost. I'll gladly pay that extra $3.50 for the convenience factor.
Posted on 5/15/17 at 10:25 am to Fewer Kilometers
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That's quite the sales pitch.
I never said I was a GOOD salesman...
Honestly, they were from marketing and had no idea wtf I was telling them about, and my sale manager was clueless in general, so it made no difference. I was at that meeting for free food...I wasn't negotiating their rate (she ended up giving so much shite to them that they weren't valuable anymore...) so when I got a chance to shite on their format I did!
It really did make no sense at all. It was essentially a hard copy version on a system like a streaming thing like Amazon or Vudu. Given VCRs were still dominant, I can;t imagine how anyone would have signed off on that. Of course, CC did go out of business, so maybe it makes perfect sense...
Posted on 5/15/17 at 1:55 pm to Jake88
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With Netflix, Amazon, HBOGo, etc. I don't see why anyone would feel the need to bother with one. I miss the video store. Everything that I might want to see was laid out on the wall. With the streaming services, I'm fairly sure I'm not even aware of some of the newer releases or more recent movies out there. I hate their menu with tons of worthless bullshite and it not actually listing all of the movies in a particular genre before it repeats.
The video store was great. I remember going to blockbuster right before they shut down and they were running the same prices as redbox. 1 dollar a day for as long as you wanted to keep the movie. It was awesome. Like a redbox but with all the old movies I love to still watch.
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