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[Celcius]

In an age of Netflix, Disney plus, and all kinds of subscriptions, I'm glad Red Box still exists. I just finished watching Shang Chi on blu ray and it literally cost me $2. This year I've also seen Fast and furious 9, space jam 2, black widow, etc… and it's always $2 each to rent a blu ray for 24 hours. I don't think I'll ever go back to the movies again even after the pandemic. I'm really looking forward to seeing Spider-Man next. Do any of you use Red Box?

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

I used Red Box all the time like 10 years ago

I now stream what I want to watch. Between all my streaming services I can pretty much always find something I want to watch.

 

[Bullet Club]

I now stream what I want to watch. Between all my streaming services I can pretty much always find something I want to watch.

How often do you watch your VHS tapes?

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

How often do you watch your VHS tapes?

Not as often I used to tbh

When I started collecting, most the stuff was impossible to watch otherwise. My collection is rare/out of print tapes

Distribution companies like vinegar syndrome have changed that over the years

 

[Mossybrew]

Haven't in years now, it used to be cool like 6-7 years ago. But honestly even if I have to rent a new release on Prime for six bucks it's worth not having to stop somewhere, and remember to return the thing. My time is way more important than an extra couple dollars.

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

Haven't in years now, it used to be cool like 6-7 years ago. But honestly even if I have to rent a new release on Prime for six bucks it's worth not having to stop somewhere, and remember to return the thing. My time is way more important than an extra couple dollars.

I select no rush shipping whenever I buy stuff on Amazon. It usually gives me $1 in streaming credit. It adds up, rentals usually end up costing me a couple bucks

stuff still comes in like a day or two, even when I pick no rush

 

[Doom85]

Oh yes, I totally miss the good old days where my friends and I rented Shutter Island from Redbox so we could watch it for the first time, popped it in, got halfway through the movie when it wouldn't work, took the disc out and sure enough some dipshit who rented it before got some good old scratches on the disc.

We barely used Redbox after that. At least back in the days with Blockbuster you'd have to put some effort into fucking up a VHS tape, but lord knows too many fucking idiots can't figure out how to handle discs properly even if it's the easiest process ever (that includes quite a few of my own relatives). Streaming > Redbox easy for me. And hell no am I giving up on seeing movies in theaters. Just got back from seeing Spidey in IMAX, it fucking rocked.

 

[GeekyDad]

I've never thought to bother with it, but yeah, it sounds like a great option on the cheap.

 

[Haint]

Netflix and Redbox Blurays are less than 1/3rd the price of Streaming rentals. I watch on average 2 new release movies every weekend and have never bought a single Streaming rental. Netflix is actually cheaper and easier, as you will typically churn 2 movies a week (making the price per BD ~$1.87), and you only have to go to your mailbox. Redbox though will send out discount codes every week that take somewhere between 80 cents and $1.25 off a rental.

 

[TransTrender]

Dang, I wonder if I shouldn't mind fuck myself and do a side by side BluRay vs 4k Stream image quality comparison. Don't want to see what I'm missing lol

 

[Quasicat]

I did before the pandemic, but during and after, many of them had disc issues or in two cases the kiosk itself was broken. At this point, they have removed quite a few of them and what we do have around here are in pretty bad parts of town.

 

[CatsGamesWhatever]

In an age of Netflix, Disney plus, and all kinds of subscriptions, I'm glad Red Box still exists. I just finished watching Shang Chi on blu ray and it literally cost me $2. This year I've also seen Fast and furious 9, space jam 2, black widow, etc… and it's always $2 each to rent a blu ray for 24 hours. I don't think I'll ever go back to the movies again even after the pandemic. I'm really looking forward to seeing Spider-Man next. Do any of you use Red Box?

We don't have Redbox where I live in Canada otherwise I would use it. I make use of our public library system though. It costs $1.50 CAD to rent a DVD/Blu-ray for 1 week (it's how I watched Black Widow/Suicide Squad most recently). I'm on the waiting list for Shang-Chi, Venom 2 & waiting on them to add Dune. This way I can catch the new releases cheap and if I like it can buy a physical copy down the road for much cheaper to add to my collection.

 

[Lunarorbit]

I remember borrowing skyrim from red box for the ps3 10 years ago and keeping it for 5 days before thinking I should just buy it.

When I lived in Texas red box was a lifesaver for video games. I moved back to my home state and the library here let's you borrow games. Was really bummed when they just switched to movies.

 

[jshackles]

I used to love red box when they did games. Haven't used them since they got rid of them.

I watch so few movies that I'm either streaming them from a subscription service (Amazon, Discovery+, etc.) or buying digital codes off workmates to add them to movies anywhere so I can watch them whenever I want.

 

[Plies]

They're starting to steadily disappear in my area.
I had no idea that they stopped renting out games, though. Bummer.