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“These machines are to the video industry what the Internet was to the music business — disaster” Hate to break it to you bud, but the Internet is not choosy a
by physcab 17y ago
“These machines are to the video industry what the Internet was to the music business — disaster”
Hate to break it to you bud, but the Internet is not choosy about media types. I promise you that when movie streaming becomes more practical, it will destroy these bulky/expensive kiosks as well as other traditional store chains. The time of DVD is slowly approaching its end.
- bradgessler 17y agoI absolutely agree. Netflix and RedBox are both nothing more than elaborate "hacks" around how restrictive studios are about licensing content to be streamed over the Internet. Its really great to see how these two models are making studios squirm; hopefully it turns up the pressure so they'll just stream content over the web.
- electromagnetic 17y agoThese machines were everywhere in France several years ago. I remember commenting that I was exceptionally disturbed that the French had more innovation in movie rentals than virtually anywhere else. I first noticed one of these machines in a newly opened Wal-Mart this year, hadn't seen one before in Canada. It's taking so long in Canada to get these new rental means set up, there's little wonder why the RIAA and MPAA are calling Canada a home for piracy. It's the only way to get a movie without paying like $7 to Blockbuster for a half-decent rental time. I've got the choice of constantly running to blockbuster to rent and return a single movie that it's going to end up costing more in gas than to rent the damn thing, because god knows blockbuster never heard of a convenient location.