Redbox Starts Renting $1.50 Blu-ray Discs

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• 2 weeks ago, the local Redbox near me had Green Zone on BD for rent. I don’t know the cost, but it was the first time I had seen BD in Redbox.

  Comment by no One of Consequence — Thursday July 29, 2010 @ 1:55pm PDT  Reply to this post

• This is great news! I don’t know anyone who wants to shell out $30 to buy those overpriced dvds especially since they will be obsolete in a few years. But $1.50… that’s about what their worth.

  Comment by Boomerang — Thursday July 29, 2010 @ 3:03pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Rented one from a kiosk outside the 7-11 I live next to. THey have had Blu-Rays for about a week now.

  Comment by Bryan Suarez — Thursday July 29, 2010 @ 3:13pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Personally, Blu-Ray is a no-go with me. It’s not the quality, it’s the price. I simply can’t afford it. Years ago when dvd’s first came out, I had the money to switch from tapes to dvd’s – i.e., buying the player, replacing all my old movie tapes and, of course, buying a television that accommodated dvd’s. But that’s no longer the case. I just don’t have the money any longer – and this situation isn’t going to change for at least another year, possibly 2 or 3. So a Blu-ray player is out (and of course so is a new television).

  Sorry, folks. It’s not the quality, it’s the cash. I no longer have the latter.

  Comment by Carolyn — Thursday July 29, 2010 @ 9:09pm PDT  Reply to this post

• This is extremely bad news. Companies like Redbox are actually destroying film.

  Comment by jkl — Friday July 30, 2010 @ 2:17am PDT  Reply to this post

• Redbox is not destroying film, it is the studios lack of foresight and innovation that is destroying film. One only needs to look at the record industry and it’s initial refusal to jump on the digital train. Well, you know what? The train left the station anyway, without the record industry. The studios are trying to push blu-ray and the general public does not give a shit. The film industry can either learn from the record industry’s mistakes or join them on the same downward spiral.

  Comment by Isaac Newton — Friday July 30, 2010 @ 3:43pm PDT  Reply to this post