Comments on: More Movie Studio Love for Redbox – Is It the Apocalypse!?

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:12:25 +0000

Redbox killed the Newspaper too! Wow they are the new evil empire.

By: Joey

Joey — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:53:02 +0000

The comparison is people started getting them cheaper or free from the internet and the likes and now newspaper after newspaper have gone away. If I have to draw a picture for you red box is giving away the product free with codes or not charging enough(devaluing packaged media) and now studios, Brick and morter, retail and sell thru in general are going to eventually go away if this doesn’t change or they will be forced like newspapers to raise their rates to recover the lost revenue due to red box. Your point about blockbuster is so invalid. Yes if you break down the per day pricing it would be less then a dollar but the thing is you can’t break it down because they don’t do $1 a day rentals each person and every person is paying more then $1.00.
And your statement “They have overcharged (raped) the public for far too long and it’s about time they quit getting by with it.” A DVD ONLY COST AT MOST $20.00 if that’s to expensive for you I’d find another job instead of sitting here on this site all day defending Redbox Oh that’s right you have a vested intrest in them.

By: moviecrazy

moviecrazy — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:09:49 +0000

Yes I am HONESTLY saying that a night of entertainment is only worth a dollar. Haven’t you been listening? And again, if you break down the price for rentals from Blockbuster and Hollywood Video they are even less than a dollar a night, they just MAKE you keep them longer than one night (or charge you for more than one night even though it doesn’t take the average person more than one or two nights to watch a movie). And you’re still comparing apples to oranges, what the hell does the newspaper industry have to do with movie rentals? Seriously, here you go with TOTALLY UNRELATED things again, I mean how can you possibly compare the newspaper industry problem with Redbox? People decided to get their news from the internet instead of a newspaper…..and the connection is…..? Besides that now the newspapers have skyrocketed in price which only makes the problem worse for the newspaper industry, because if people didn’t want to pay 50 cents for a paper what in god’s name makes them think they’ll pay a dollar or more for it! Yeah that makes sense, since no one is buying our product let’s raise the price of it…BRILLIANT!

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:00:43 +0000

I have to admit the pricing does seem a bit cheep. I don’t understand why redbox just doesn’t charge $2.00 a night everybody wins.

By: Joey

Joey — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:27:56 +0000

So your honestly saying that a movie rental, A night of entertainment is honestly only worth $1.00? That’s the same price as a bottle of pop. Have you seen what happened to the newspaper industry? That is what redbox is doing to this industry.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:43:39 +0000

“all dvd’s at the very beginning of the video all say you can’t be doing what they are doing”

They say you can’t copy the DVD or sell tickets to view it. They do NOT say you can’t purchase a DVD and then rent that copy. Rental is 100% legal (google “first sale doctrine” if you don’t believe me).

“couldn’t they set up that they like give back 5% of all rentals or something? ”

Apparently the standard revenue sharing percentage when there is an agreement is more like 70%, not 5%. Which is why Redbox has tried to avoid it.

“they should be giving something to those who’s work such belongs too because Redbox is profiting from it.”

They do, every time they buy a DVD to rent out.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:34:28 +0000

The same thing is hitting the movie industry as hit the music industry… it used to be that to sample the product you had to buy it at full price and tough luck if it was junk. No longer true, and an industry built upon the inflated profits this enabled is feeling reality.

By: moviecrazy

moviecrazy — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:20:16 +0000

I’m not trying to say it’s all peachy, I’m just saying if you’re going to quote an article, quote the WHOLE article not just the part that you think makes your point. Be fair about it, that’s all I’m saying. When you post articles you like to deceive people about what’s going on by not giving them the whole story and that’s not right. Let them have the whole story so they can form an opinion for themselves instead of the one you want them to believe. And I’ll say it again, Hollywood has been far too greedy for far too long and they are only crying now because they’re not getting their part of the pie that they think they should get. They have overcharged (raped) the public for far too long and it’s about time they quit getting by with it.

By: rb

rb — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:59:59 +0000

Joey, you seem to contradict/sabatoge the point against Redbox that you’re desperately trying to make here. What you’re basically applauding in your example is that Time Warner Ceo Jeff Bewkes (and other studio heads like him) are saying that though there may be a place for consumer-friendly/consumer-driven rental businesses like $1- rental Redbox , that “place” needs to be second to the mighty greed of the studio kings/directors/producers/script writers and actors/actressess, etc. that continue to get paid $20 million+ for inferior work.

By: Joey

Joey — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:16:21 +0000

what bogus point is that?

The only point I’ve made is that red box is devaluing the industry. It’s obviously not just my point because it seems like a majority of this industry is saying this same thing. You maybe havn’t noticed because the only vested interest you have in any of this is you get free codes and $1 movie rentals. Not once have you ever said that possibly there is something to what is being said. I will acknowledge your point that $1 rentals are nice and the convience of the kiosk is also great for consumers. But there is a flip side to this and there is also an affect that all this is causing on an entire industry. Right,wrong or indifferent I…. (I mean me)… think that redbox is just a bad thing in the long run for everyone including consumers. I guess time will tell what happens to this industry and to redbox I just don’t think as it is it’s all candy drops and sunshine like you seem to portray everything