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Wait, they still existed to this day? That’s impressive.
Literally last week my wife noticed one while out and remarked “I can’t believe they’re still around.”
I just sent the article to her with the caption “You did this!”
I should see if I can find some working ones tomorrow and take out a few games and see what happens if I never return them lmao
Don’t you have to enter a credit card before it gives you the disc? I imagine they will just charge you later though maybe it’ll slio through the cracks.
I will not mind walking past the boxes anymore.
Personally a little sad over this. Have a bluray player and sometimes I want to be able to choose and pick a newer movie in 4k… Much cheaper than Amazon and Vudu to rent.
Blu-ray also has much higher quality than streaming services.
In fact, the only way to stream a movie in Blu-ray quality is by using something like Real Debrid, with a fast connection since the bitrate can reach ~100Mbps at times. There’s no legally licensed way to do it. Seems like a missed opportunity IMO.
Your local library would appreciate it if you go ahead and check out some movies now and then. It helps them prove that they are worth funding.
Thank you! I remember my local library had dvds. I don’t remember any BluRays. Will check it out!!
Wait, the Chicken Soup people own Redbox? Has that always been true?
RedBox was originally developed by McDonalds.
Quick! Everybody run to redbox, and rent EVERYTHING.
Not like you have to return disks to a service and box thats no longer fuctional!
Yep…I see no flaws in this plan! Just a smart guy doing smart things!
Hey…we should build a monorail to the moon!!! And then brag about our redbox gains!!!
I was just at a store last week and they had a sign on the machine saying you can’t use it and it’s going away. I wonder what they’ll do with all those discs.
Before the pandemic, I used to watch a youtube channel of this guy who would dumpster dive gamestop.
He got so excited over finding what was in most cases trash.
Things like manuals, without a case or a game. Things like boxes for headphones, with no headphones.
Occasionally he’d find something decent…but never worth dumpster diving every night for.
The one thing that was strange was that gamestop almost always broke disks in half before throwing them out.
So I imagine thats what redbox will do.
The one thing that was strange was that gamestop almost always broke disks in half before throwing them out.
I think this is a common method to disincentivize people from taking stuff. Many moons ago I worked at Walmart and they did the same stuff in the claims area. They would damage everything to make it worthless and then either toss it in the trash compactor or send it back to the manufacturer. They damaged it to male sure that it couldn’t be sold again and to somewhat prevent people from using this as a method to ‘launder’ good items that they’d come back later to take home.
Redbox Gains. That sounds a lot like my failed thrash ambient band.
Dedbox
I think I’ll take one home.
I wonder if you can install Linux on it?
I’ll make it dispense AOL CDs from the 90s
I was talking to one of the repair guys working on one near me and he told me they already ran Linux, so they’re one step ahead of you
Had good memories with this ngl
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A judge overseeing Redbox owner Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment’s bankruptcy case granted a request Wednesday to convert it from Chapter 11 to Chapter 7 bankruptcy, according to Lowpass’ Janko Roettgers and The Wall Street Journal.
The company’s lawyers said Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment will lay off its remaining 1,000 employees and liquidate the businesses, including streaming operations and the 24,000 or so disc kiosks that have rented out DVDs, Blu-rays, and videogames for years.
Given the fact that there may also be at least the possibility of misappropriation of funds that were held in trust for employees, there is more than ample reason why this case should be converted.”
In addition to operating Redbox, Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment also manages brands like Crackle and Screen Media.
Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment.
Roettgers has been covering Redbox and its parent company’s recent troubles for The Verge, including a missed multimillion-dollar payment owed to NBCUniversal, the original bankruptcy filing, and Chicken Soup failing to make payroll for Redbox employees.
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My redbox app already stopped working
Lots of poor people used Redbox.
At least poor people still have the public library.
For now.
Yarr.
I kind of want one of these to load up with my discs to just be a fancy frontend to pick out a movie for the night…
Anyone know how many discs these things hold? Gotta be a few hundred no?
“over 600”, considering how much shelf space it would take, to store 600+ movies in their covers; a redbox is probably a very space efficient way to store and resource optical media.
yeah I’d love to get my hands on one of these and just keep it in the Livingroom then. Put all the blurays in it. Let people borrow disks…
would be a cool project to replace their (more than likely) proprietary GUI with a custom one… I have RFID cards on hand. Could be cool to just assign cards to friends and let them come over and “rent” movies.
Make a “secret” menu for “renting” out Linux install disks to myself too. Forces me to keep shit organized.
I remember being able to rent video games from these. Some days you might see 2 people in line for one of these things.
