Here at B-TEN we absolutely love the opportunities we get to talk to members of the gaming community about what matters most to our readers. This week I got the opportunity to briefly talk to Joel Kesnick, Redbox Vice President and Head of Gaming, about Wii U. Although Redbox is not currently carrying PS4, Xbox One or Wii U games nationwide just yet, our discussion focused on Wii U. I want to thank Mr. Kesnick for giving me the time out of his busy schedule to talk briefly.
Netflix, your favorite reason to stay home and ignore whatever shred of a social life you purport to have, isn’t just a streaming network of original programming and a reminder of how terrible Friends was. It’s also still a DVD rental service. A DVD rental service that is profitable as hell for Netflix. To the tune of $56 million in profit on just $99 million in revenue.
It's not that shocking. There's still plenty of people with terrible internet speeds.
Redbox not thriving is sort of a surprisie in certain areas. Some of my friends still have dial up speed where they live
It's somehow thriving because if I want to watch damn near any movie I want, I can get it via DVD or Blu-ray and not have to hunt around to see if it's streaming somewhere or have to pay $4-5 to rent a single movie.
Ive got Netflix and Prime Video and tbh i still buy and rent a lot of blurays. Even a 3 or 4 GB torrent doesnt look or sound anything close to a bluray and im especially pretty obsessed with building my 4k collection.
I have a rental store down the street though...
I remember Netflix having many more recent movies available on DVD than for streaming. Unless they've managed since then to license for streaming all the movies people want to watch, I understand why DVDs are still flying through the postal system.
Outerwall Inc. fell 22% early Tuesday, trading at its lowest level in more than two years, after Monday’s disclosure of problems at its Redbox unit — yet another physical business under assault by digital streaming.
Windows Phone Central - How’s that work? You oppose technological advances but you’re using Windows 8? Anyways, if you’re a fan of picking up a DVD or Blu-ray from your nearest Redbox location you’ll be happy to know there’s a Windows 8 app. Let’s take a quick look at this app.