On your last trip to the grocery store, pharmacy, or convenience store you may have noticed a red vending-machine like this one. It's a Redbox , a self-service kiosk that allows you to rent DVDs and Blue-ray disks for a low-daily fee.
With video and DVD rental-shops disappearing around the country, more and more people than before are switching to subscription rental services like Netflix. However, if you can't be bothered to join a subscription service, or just want to rent your movie right now, then Redbox may be the video-rental alternative for you!
How Redbox works is fairly simple: you just find a kiosk, select the film you want to rent from a touch-screen menu, and then swipe your credit or debit-card. The machine vends you your title choice, and charges you a daily rate for the film. Rates are typically as low as 1.00 USD per day. After you've finished with the film, you simply return it to any Redbox kiosk. You can even reserve films online and pick them up at a nearby location.
If you only rent films once in a while, or you tend to watch them the night you rent, then Redbox works out cheaper than a trip to the local Blockbuster. If you like to watch a movie several times before you return it, or it takes you a while to get around to viewing your rental, or your movie tastes tend towards the obscure, then this may not be the service for you. However, with the convenience of over 23,000 locations and the instant-gratification of receiving a title seconds after swiping a credit-card, Redbox is certain to please film-fans who need their new releases by tonight!
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