More Blu-ray In The Immediate Future For Redbox

**Attebery** · 08-06-2009 02:47 PM

Record profits spur expansion for the increasingly popular rental service.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/1537...nscript?page=1

**Pyrochaos** · 08-06-2009 04:02 PM

Wait do they have blu-rays already?

**Gunyaga** · 08-06-2009 04:16 PM

Some do, some don't. So far for me it has been a hard and fast rule that if the Redbox is in a convenient spot for me, it does not, and vice versa.

**cheez avenger** · 08-06-2009 04:33 PM

hahaha, this just in.

http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home...-redbox-kiosks

**Rich86** · 08-06-2009 10:02 PM

Originally Posted by cheez avenger

hahaha, this just in.
http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home...-redbox-kiosks

"Fox said it favored the 30-day delay for vending machines in order to protect the "enormous money, creativity, and effort" it invests in its movies, the company said in a statement."

Fox thinks those of us who rent from Redbox will run out and buy these silly titles otherwise.
Wrong!
There are plenty of titles I will try for a $.99 rental - and then decide if they are worth purchasing on blu-ray after viewing.
But blind blu-ray buys at $25 to $30 each of titles I haven't already decided I want is not going to happen. Ever!
I vote for Redbox - keep up the fight!

**septim** · 08-06-2009 11:14 PM

Oh no! Now I will have to wait an additional 30 days to not rent Wolverine.

**iontyre** · 08-07-2009 12:29 AM

If anyone sees blu-rays in any redbox machine in the Baltimore MD area please post the location!!!

**twonunpackmule** · 08-07-2009 12:31 AM

^ I'll try.

**HDM-GHANDI** · 08-07-2009 12:47 AM

Perhaps this may direct some companies into doing pristine new transfers.

Yipee!

**justjoined** · 08-07-2009 02:36 AM

Originally Posted by septim

Oh no! Now I will have to wait an additional 30 days to not rent Wolverine.

YOU WILL SUFFER HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

**cheez avenger** · 08-07-2009 02:40 AM

Riiiiiiiiiiiight. If I had a $100 dollar bill every time I've read about a member having impulse control issues about certain titles on release day, I'd be an even filthier rich individual.

You know some folks on here can't wait. If they could, places like Best Buy would be out of business.

**disilluzion** · 08-07-2009 09:57 AM

Are the Blus a dollar as well? I do tech support for some of these machines, but don't know the pricing structure. Also, is it a dollar per day I presume?

**ToddS** · 08-07-2009 10:18 AM

A friend from work told me BR just hit his Red Box so they are coming!

$1/night BRs sounds fantastic!

**friedchicken** · 08-07-2009 12:47 PM

I hope they get some blu's near me!

I have only see one, and that was months ago.

**Amiable-Akuma** · 08-07-2009 03:02 PM

Yes, it is only 1 dollar a day to rent the BD version of the movie from the kiosks as well.

A lot of the larger Wal-marts (usually those that have a McDonalds inside) will have a Redbox that includes BD movies. Most of the regular McDonalds and CVS pharmacy Redboxes do not - unless somebody who rented a BD from a Wal-mart location returned it to one of the former locations - then you can rent it from there.

I like Redbox a lot for BD renting but their selection is helter-skelter even in the ones that get "a lot" of BDs regularly. I quote "a lot" because the best BD Redboxes have a rotating stock of only about 6 to 10 BD movies. Half of those movies are horrible or straight-to-video stuff that you would probably not pay even a dollar to rent, so then it seems like even less.

Also, it is annoying that they do not get all the BD new releases even when they would be popular. For example, the Redboxes around me that have BD got "Dragonball: Evolution" but not "Fast and Furious".

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