THAT'S IT! I'm officially cancelling my RedBox subscription. Clearly, RedBox is interested in only one thing, MONEY!! Apparently RedBox doesn't care about entertaining people anymore! But seriously, I'm already paying $1.50 to get BluRay disks over standard DVDs, so a mild price hike like this isn't a big deal. Like the article says, it sure beats paying $5.99 to OnDemand a video from the cable company, or $4.99 to stream that movie from BlockBuster or VuDu. And Netflix, well, it will be 6-months before it's on Netflix, and it probably won't make it to the streaming service which is all I subscribe to.
[citation][nom]cts corvette[/nom]I haven't rented a movie from Redbox (or anywhere else) in months. Not because I object to the price, but rather because I object to the crappy content of the movies Hollywood is putting out these days.[/citation]
Same here, I thought I broke by Redbox drought recently because there was even less on TV this past weekend (although I do regret spending $2 on Skyline and SuckerPunch, and yes, I realized after the fact that Skyline is on Netflix online). I loved RedBox, and have used it since it first came to my location 5+ years ago. But there's so many aweful movies out there, I don't want to see them at all, much less pay a $1 for them, or now a $1.15 in certain markets.
Hollywood blames the internet for their poor box office performance, even though box office revenue has never been higher despite the crap they put out these days. In reality, Hollywood studios should be happy just knowing their movie was popular enough to torrent in the first place, and not just ignored all together (no, I don't condone piracy, I'm just saying, the torrent for Howard the Duck probably isn't straining anyone's download caps).
Still,