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To: Responsibility2nd

The days of even Redbox are numbered. Eventually everything will be available on Netflix Streaming or a similar service.

I presently watch almost nothing except Netflix. Doesn’t have everything (yet), but it has a surprising variety, including more and more classic and foreign movies.

Recent shock to me was movies I saw as a kid or even relatively well-along adult being classified as Classics. LOL


28 posted on 11/06/2013 2:07:08 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

Redbox will survive as long as the price disparity between Redbox and streaming HD remains so large.

We get bluray Redbox movies for $1.50. An HD streaming movie costs $6.99. If the HD streaming movies come down to $3.00, we’d probably do those exclusively. But, people will spend 20 minutes and $2.00 in gas to save $1.50 in rental fees, so the streaming price will probably need to go lower than $3.00 to catch on.


34 posted on 11/06/2013 2:27:11 PM PST by Dexter Morgan (Everyone hides who they are.)
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I remember 1985 when Blockbuster came along and put the mom and pop places out of business. They had a good run there for a while.

If you like foreign films and classics, check out Hulu. They have something like 900 Criterion titles available.

45 posted on 11/06/2013 3:53:30 PM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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