Anyone else out there use Redbox to rent movies? I love it. The only flaw I have found is getting stuck behind an indecisve person when waiting to pick up movies.
I like the model. You can reserve titles online. Nightly rentals are so cheap ($1 per night) that it incentivises you to watch the movies quicky and return them. There is no membership fee. Finally, you can return them to any location (pretty much any grocery store in the area). Returning to a specific location was always my main pet peeve with Blockbuster or Hollywood. With redbox, I can pick a movie up by my house then return it down by my office.
For me, it beats Netflix. I liked Netflix, but I found the automatic queue a pain to maintain. I’d forget to update it and then we’d end up with a movie we wanted a few weeks back. It would usually end up sitting on the shelf for a week (or longer) and then we’d send it back unwatched. Good for Netflix, bad for us.
I guess the option that comes closest to redbox is OnDemand, but I could write another post about why I think that service, at least with my provider, is awful and a poor value.
