Looks like Physical Movie Rental are almost gone

[Bruce]

The last main one, Redbox, is having Revenue issues due to not enough people renting disc anymore.

They put themselves up for sale last October, no takers.

By the way, I still do purchase some movies on 4K Disc, be sad to see it go, but technology moves forward.

Redox’s Parent Company Saw Revenues Drop 75% in the 1st Quarter of 2024 Year Over Year | Cord Cutters News

Chicken Soup For The Soul is the parent company behind Redbox, Crackel, and the streaming service by the same name. Recently the company has been hit hard by the decline in ad revenue on its free streaming services and the drop in DVD rentals at its Redbox locations. This has led to the company...

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[comfortably_numb]

I never see anybody at the Redbox here in town. It's right outside the Dollar General.

 

[comfortably_numb]

PS- who's spell checking AI??

 

[ncted]

PS- who's spell checking AI??

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No one. Maybe AI will eliminate the need for copy editing since it isn't done anymore anyway, but I doubt it. The empire is falling, and this is just one symptom.