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I have the feeling that they're trying to separate both companies completely in the long run. The DVD by mail business is ultimately doomed. Why use DVD by mail
by phoboslab 15y ago
I have the feeling that they're trying to separate both companies completely in the long run. The DVD by mail business is ultimately doomed. Why use DVD by mail services when you can directly stream movies?
Granted, Qwikster will still stay around for a while, but I have no doubt that it will slowly die, just like Blockbuster right now.
- aculver 15y agoThe answer to your last question is the same one Jeff sent to all of us customers in his email yesterday. At the moment, there are a lot of titles only available on DVD. However, we still opted to drop DVD in exchange for streaming since our local 7-Eleven fills in the 'new release' gap for $1-per-movie with Redbox.
- Jun8 15y agoMaybe not as soon as you think. Studios keep a tight control over which movies can get digitized, some will not release some of their old movies to streaming. Blockbuster dies rather quickly mostly because of Netflix. So, in order to predict DVD by mail business dying you have to show the alternative. Streaming currently is by no means a match. One could see Redbox putting more advanced kiosks with more selections (there was talk about kiosks with thousands of titles that would burn the DVD while you shopped) which might be threat.
- hollerith 15y agoTo start burning DVDs while the customer waits probably puts Redbox in the same difficult negotiating position with the content owners that streaming movies does.