Are Redbox DVD rentals too cheap?

Pure capitalism breeds innovation and does a service to consumers. To pretend for even a second that capitalism should be resticted is insane.

Redbox rocks. They are not braking any laws. They should not share any profit with anyone. Their prices are great, specially in this recession.

If the movie companies want more money, raise the price of the DVD's. Its Redbox's business what they do with the movie after they purchase it. Why does Blockbuster pay, it seems ludicrous.

I'm going to go rent some more Redbox movies, their system is great. The just need an extra input to return movies while someone is selecting a movie.

Just another attempt at the movie industry trying to stifle innovation, creativity in order to keep their pockets fat. They are one of the greediest orginizations in the country, they want money and they don't care who they have to trample to get paid.

pure capitalism causes money to be the center of society, instead of people being the center of society.

i disagree with the movie studios – redbox et al have a good thing going, and $5 at blockbuster is ridiculous. all redbox has done is taken a $5, week-long rental, and divided into $1 for each day. how long does it take to watch a movie? usually takes me about 2 hours.

Can't believe that, well Redbox keep up with the good work and don't even think about going back with the suing.

NO!!!!!!!!!!!! Redbox should not have to share any profits. They already shared profits by buying the movies from the production companies. These big production studios are crazy. How much money do they need really need to play pretend? Technology advancement always seems to be a problem with them. If they are allowed to block wholesalers, then the people should boycott movies from the companies doing that and then we will see if their product is then undervalue.

I personally don't use redbox because I'm an geek for social interaction with store employees @ places like Hollywood VIdeo and Blockbuster... I've a friend with 4 sons that all have different taste in movies, she can go to a redbox and everyone can get what they want for the same price as I, an engaged male, can at BB or HV.

Redbox is awesome. Restricting it would be anit-capitalist. What are we going backwards??

Go Redbox. Screw Hollywood. They are greedy enough as it is. When does the working man get a break in this country?

Competition is the heart of our capitalist society and fuels growth, all while satisfying consumer need.

If competitors such as Blockbuster or Hollywood Video adjusted their sales scheme by shortening rental times to 1 or 2 days, they could compete with Redbox and things would be better for consumers.

If Redbox is not breaking the law, then big movie companies have no options for legal action. They are resorting to a pressure scenario on the middle man to compensate for their losses, rather than adjusting or taking appropriate actions to create more laws to protect themselves.

I disagree with the movie companies, if you can't beat'em, join'em.

Why haven't more companies/services followed Redboxs model, eliminate the greatest cost of business, overhead. I cant wait till fastfood is complete automated.

I don't think they are too cheap. Netflix is even cheaper than that if you think about it. I can have 2 movies out for 30 days (or more!!) for $13.99 a month. That works out to 23 cents a day per movie, as opposed to $1 a day for Redbox. If Redbox has a good business model, the producers should not be allowed to interfere with that.

there is no capitalistic situation in US. Regulation (bank bailouts, insurance bailouts, healthcare bailouts) are the new (always been there? reality as capitalism allows a few to rape the rest of us in the name of capitalism. Goodbye capitalism hello old reality with new sound byte name to be determined

The Blockbuster near me offers a daily rental price as well. I believe it's $1 a day, but I've never done it, so I don't know. Sounds like BB is trying to keep up with Redbox. They have a bigger selection as well.

Why shouldn't REDBOX be permitted to charge $1 for a movie. Their business model allows them to keep their overhead low and still make a profit. Unlike the Blockbusters of the world, they are not paying for leased space or wages to employes to man the stores, etc.
It is a brilliant business model.

Wow, the movie studios are crying "anti competitive" practices.
Who cares!

This is certainly anti-competitive and I hope that Redbox successfully sues Fox. Every year, the cost of movies skyrockets further and further, and I have a difficult time believing that it's simply a matter of increasing costs. When each year's "summer blockbuster" is breaking sales records, it's not that more people are going to the movies, it's that the price we consumers pay is going up and up to pay for some Hollywood star or movie executive's fancy cars and mansions.

REDBOX ROCKS!! I love reserving online, pick up and drop off close to home, and pay a buck. Giving customers what they want at a price they want.

If movie companies want to make more money, they should lower their prices. Maybe if you didn't have to spend $40 just to go to the theater, more people would go. I turn they wouldn't have to worry about recouping all the money lost on the films and the rental revenue would just be an added bonus to their bottom line

i think the movie studios are vastly overvaluing their product. most of the movies i've rented from the Redbox – which typically only carries stuff released within the past two years – sucks because the movies the studios put out tend to suck. i think, considering the overall story quality, the Redbox is charging an extremely fair price. in fact, the Redbox got me to stop pirating movies via bittorrent because it was the best value in terms of both price AND time.

I think Redboxes are wonderful. It saves a lot of money outside of the rental price. There is a Redbox in every giant eagle, on the curbs of nearly every drugstore, and so on. I can walk to my nearest redbox. I have to drive 15 minutes to a rental store.

Everyone complaining about them just needs to keep their mouths shut. If anything, they're probably just ticked they didn't think of the idea beforehand.

Undervaluing their products? Wow...movie execs are certainly out of touch with the REAL world!! Must be the hundreds of thousands of dollars they make working in their pretend world that causes the confusion. Redbox is the best value since sliced bread for the common man out here in the real world. Try taking your family of 4 or 5 (or in my case 7) to the movies...that's just about a weeks worth of groceries (not including the popcorn). The movie studios need a reality check!!!

Finally, someone gets capitalism right. Redbox is offering a service at a price it can maintain, and reaping the benefits. If Fox wants to stay competetive, they will need to lower prices.

The fact that Redbox employees can purchase retail copies, use them in this renting busniess and still turn a profit is the best indicator that movie studios overprice their goods.

Instead of fighting with Redbox, the studios should be working out a deal with them. Sell them movies (at let's say, 10% discount.) Redbox benefits from getting their product cheaper, and the studios benefit from selling more movies.

Movie companies sold the DVD's to Red Box, end of discussion. If they want more money raise the price. Red Box has done nothing wrong and has no responsibility to share revenue with the move companies.

Here's an easy answer to the question: Are Redbox DVD rentals too cheap?

If the company does not make enough revenue to sustain themselves, then the rentals are too cheap. Simple as that.

I switched to Redbox when Blockbuster started making me rent $5 for 5 days. I only want it one day. Good system, love it.

Redbox Rocks!! Excellent and fair business model! I think these studios should have thought of this idea...they're jealous! Redbox is for the consumer! One bit of advice for these studios..don't make the public mad by taking on 'david'...

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THANK GOODNESS there's a company that isn't a greedy conglomerate. Redbox is doing nothing more than what a good company should do EVERYDAY – make services available to the masses for a FAIR price. I would hope that everyone boycotts greedy production studios!

Boo-hoo,....the movie studios cant add my /your $1 to their already gajillion dollar profits.....
i say Rock On, Red Box, you obviously found a way to provide people what they want at a price that works for everyone! it would be nice if more companies followed THAT lead !!

Here is the thing...this is a good theing that RedBook has done and the big stuidoes are just ripped because they did not think of or put it in place before someone else...HEY HOLLYWOOD!!! set up your own RedBook style machine on every street conner and try to take the market back!

Some new movies I watch is not even worth $1. At times, I feel that Hollywood(20th Century Fox and Universal Studios) ripped me off. I have even thought about watching some imported movies.

Boycot Blockbuster, NetFlix and the other big rental companies. Rent from RedBox and put the studios in their place!

"News Corp COO Chase Carey criticized the low-priced kiosks. “Having our [movies] rented at $1 in the rental window is grossly undervaluing our products,”"

What a product or service is worth is determined by what people will pay for it. I will not pay $20-$25 for a 'new' movie that I may not like. I will pay $1 to rent it and then perhaps I will buy a copy when the price gets down to $10-$15 if I liked it.

Like the movie studios dont make bank on the productions that they put out? Millions upon millions are made by films like Transformers and GI JOE even though they cost a fortune to make, the production companies are no where near the red line... give the consumer a break for once. Capitalism breeds competition... I'm surprised places like Blockbuster and other video rental companies have not gone under with their extravagant prices... Let's be serious for a second, in all fairness RedBox is actually allowing families who cannot afford vacations in this down economy to rent movies and enjoy them... for that I vote Redbox all the way.

Used to LOVE Redbox....til I got a string of scratched movies. Sticking with Netflix DVDs and streams

I don't understand the complaint here because when you look at the price of a movie from blockbuster for 5 days it averages about the same 1 dollar a day. Sound to me like the studio companies are just mad that they aren't getting a cut.

These companies complain about pricing of the RedBox movies but if you take into effect that each person pays $1 a day, for a month's worth of movies you're still paying more that both Blockbuster or Netflix where you can get 3 to 4 movies at a time for on average of like $10-$15 bucks a month. These companies are just T'ed of because they're not getting any of the profits from the RedBox's revenues. If I'm not mistaken, do they not already get the money from the original purchases of these titles? What's the difference? Companies like Fox and Universal need to stop being so money hungry!

One more reason to not feel sorry for them over the all the pirating going on.

Makes me want to go out and rent a movie from Redbox wile its downloading on BitTorrent, just to stick it to them!

As if they need to make any more of a profit! RedBox is great, they need to continue just as they are and wholesale companies shouldnt buckle under the pressure. These big companies make millions and millions and then complain about someone getting to rent a DVD for a dollar. The thought of it makes me sick, please, squeeze every penny you can from the little guy so you can get your big bonuses and take fancy vacations while we struggle to make ends meet let alone enjoy some simple entertainment.

Not sure how the movie companies pull it off- barring fair use of a product they sell.

They can go back to the VHS days, where they sold initial releases for $80 for rental (Priced For Rental) then dropped to $15 or less for release.

They are seriously OVER-VALUING their product.

The studios and the major rental chains have had every opportunity to compete on the same level as Redbox. They fail. Now they want a legal right to shape the film industry? This is America god dammit and Fox can love it or leave it. In business you adapt or you die. Block buster, for example, insists on an absurd $5/5 day rental price and charges even more absurd late fees. Redbox has the fairest, most sensible $1/day pricing scheme ever seen in the rental industry. I guess the studios will just have to get, dare i say it... creative. Give us more reasons to buy a DVD. For god sakes, give us more reasons to get into the theaters.

Lets hope the govenment starts taking a look at the policies of the movie, music an telecomm industries.

These three industries damage the american economy and stifle innovation. What other industries spend some much time trying to stick it too their customers?

Maybe more americans should start sueing the movie and record companies when they put out inferior & defective products...e.g. bad movies and rotten music.

These are practically the only industries that actively attach their own customers.

I don't get it. Movie studios used to pay so much money for those huge cameras and the MILES AND MILES of film. California gives them tax breaks to keep them from going to Canada (or some other 3rd world country). Now you can distribute DVD's online meaning, no packaging and DVD pressing costs. It just gets better and better for them, yet... it's never enough! They need to get their heads out of their own Red Boxes and leave the real Red Box alone!

Redbox rentals aren't undervalued. DVDs are overpriced. The movie industry has lost touch with the audience. If they offered their own reasonably-priced digital downloads instead of trying to kill that whole revenue stream, they'd be swimming in cash and there would be no need for Netflix, Redbox - or DVDs.

Go Redbox!!!! Hollywood is a bastion of filthy greed and egregious bigotry against Protestant males who are all but excluded from it. The numbers show Hollywood making more money than ever. Kudos to Redbox for fighting back. I'm off to rent from them tonight! Hope they have lot's of good lawyers at Redbox though as Fox and Co. are litigious and have the deep pockets to push back hard.

Just because Redbox buys the dvd's commercially does NOT give them the right/ability to rent said DVD's out without permission of the movie studio in question, do any of you read the disclaimer's at the beginning of the dvd's?

This is just one more reason as to why I boycotted the entire movie industry years ago. What this says to the movie studios clients (their customers) is simply, "You can enjoy our movies but not for a cheap price." I can't help but think of a single mother (or father) that is struggling and through Red Box can provide at least some form of entertainment for their kids. Nice move Hollywood.

I think the government should regulate this so everyone can have access to affordable videos. Oh wait that's health care, auto industry, and so on.
OOPS! I am with so many on here so far...Go Redbox!

They are right in place with what others charge if you avg it out per day.

All that is being said is that redbox will likely no longer pay wholesale prices on the DVDs. I doubt this would do anything.

I don' use Redbox because my local grocery store rents dvd's for only a dollar for two days. and they have all the latest releases. Redbox should be able to do what they want

The Redbox Kiosks are exactly what Americans want. They are affordable, offer a large selection and are very convenient. Redbox should not have to give the major studios any share in profit. Redbox is not breaking any laws in the way they operate. So yes, Redbox has every right to respond in every legal way possible to ensure that the studios don't abuse their copyright by insisting that vendors not sell new release DVD's to them.

RedBox is an excellent video rental system. During these trying times of financial situation, it is a low cost alternative to go and see movies at theaters or rent from NexFlix. I do not want to be obligated to pay 4 or 9 dollars a month for unlimited rental where as I am not going to rent movies every day or every week. I want a low cost to rent when I have time. If I rent from NexFlix for 9 dollars a month and only rent 3 movies for the whole month..that is a waste of my money when comparing to RedBox. RedBox is a great business for everyone and they are not obligated to share their profits with those Money Hungry movie corporations. I am sick and tired of seeing greedy corporations ripping off consumers by over pricing the products from gas to entertainments.

Everybody but Bill in Virginia Beach is wrong. The disclaimer is on every single DVD put on the market today, and it always says the same thing: PRIVATE VIEWING ONLY, NO RENTALS OR PUBLIC VIEWING ALLOWED. What part do you guys not get? Redbox broke that agreement, then openly said in this article that they'll do it again if they have to. How dumb do you have to be to do something like that?

You all better enjoy Redbox while you can, cause Fox is going to put them out of business quickly.

I am with the movie companies on this. Why should Redbox be allowed to rent someone else's work out for whatever price they want? The sale is for a license to watch at home. The whole point of copyright law is to protect artists work. Just because in a digital age it is possible to steal doesn't make it right. Ask anyone who has ever tried to do something creative and seen it get stolen, it's not fair.

No Bill in Virginia, once you have paid for said item, you can do what you want with it. According to your logic, if I pay the full $22-24 price for a DVD, it is still not mine? Redbox took a great idea and ran with it, and now the greedy movie studios want in on it since people rarely want to pay $10+ for a movie ticket, then another $20+ for an overpriced DVD. KEEP ON TRUCKIN' REDBOX!

Are you kidding me? They seriously think it undervalues them? That's a load of crap. It does not undervalue them. It just rents and possibly sells them at a price that gives people more access to movies and stuff.

Redbox does NOT need permission from the movie studio. Why would they? They own them. It's only fair.

And Bill in Virginia Beach, disclaimers at the beginning of DVDs? You mean the FBI warning, right? Because if you do, you're wrong. This is not copyright infringement. They are not copying these movies. They are simply reselling them, which is not illegal. If it were, we wouldn't know Blockbuster, Family Video, or Netflix. Redbox is not doing anything illegal. Check your facts.

Redbox is exploiting a loop hole in copyright law that only appears to benefit consumers. If all movies fall to $1 per viewing then the great big budget movies do not get made and the big libraries of movies available at "expensive" rental locations go away (leaving you with 600 low budget movies to rent from a Red Box kiosk). Hollywood makes an important part of its revenue from DVD sales and rentals. This is a great example of how unrestrained Capitalism leads to lower a standard of living in the long run.

I rented for red box before and it's great as long as you return the movie the next day. the selections isn't that great though. I remember one time when I wanted to rent Australia and red box was out so I had to go to blockbuster instead. also you can keep the movie out for a few days with blockbuster. overall I'm a netflix person, but sometimes you just need a movie on the spot.

I'm going to Redbox tonight!!!!!

As much as Fox may hate red box they can't do anything about it. With Obama in office and his recent push to strengthen anti-trust regulations this fight is leaning in Red Box's favor.

Free market is what the economy is built on. Redbox has a marketing operation that works and is profitable. The studios are upset because they do not get a slice of the pie and the simple fact that they wish they had come up with this themselves. They are trying to bully their suppliers in order to chock Redbox out of business, or in other words trying to create a rental monopoly. Only the rental stores we approve of are allowed to get our movies on the release date? Has nobody in Hollywood heard of the Microsoft monopoly lawsuits?

Pure capitalism leads to all-powerful, immortal corporations which will eventually subjugate humanity.

I rented from Redbox and had to pay $30 for a rental i forgot to return... too low prices? NO WAY!

I travel to the USA very often, the Redbox is awsome. They need these in Canada.

Bill,

The disclaimer and/or shrink wrap agreements are not necessarily binding. Redbox is able to rent videos for $1 under the First Sale Doctrine: which provides that "The doctrine allows the purchaser to transfer (i.e., sell or give away) a particular lawfully made copy of the copyrighted work without permission once it has been obtained" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine).

Please recognize the phrase, "lawfully copyrighted" which is why Napster et. al. was ruled illegal. These are legally purchased copies, whether from the Studios are retail, hence legal.

In fact, it was precisely an attempt by a publisher to put pricing controls on retail sales: Bobbs-Merrill_Co._v._Straus that lead to the creation of the First Sale Doctrine in the first place!

I respect rights holders and understand their loss to adapt to changes in technology (and antiquated copyright law). That said, I am tired of rights holders (including Time Warner) continuously trying to strip away fair use provisions of copyright and rightly support Redbox in their lawsuit to protect our rights (while still making a buck or two).

Here the movie guys are fighting against piracy and wanting to sue everyone in sight, and Redbox is making a legal living and they want to crush them. Cannot have it both ways. Choose – communism or capitalism.

the bible predicted that in the last days people will advance from bad to worse in how they treat each other

All the movies at RedBox are straight to video. Waste of time.

Cry some more. Blockbuster is overpriced and inconvient. I love the entire concept of Redbox. I can go to Wal-Mart, buy dinner, then rent several movies for $1 then return them on my morning commute at Mcdonald's while I buy my morning coffee. Redbox is also open at 2am and on holidays, so I can get a movie whenever I want. Keep up the good work Redbox, you've won my business.

Bill in VA,

actually, yes, they DO have the right of first sale to do whatever they want with them – read the article at Ars – http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/08/surprise-surprise-redbox-sues-fox-over-dvd-boycott.ars

They claim Redbox is "ruining their business" – well tough. Come up with some innovative ideas (like Redbox) and you can compete, instead of relying on a business model that's 25 years old.

Movie studios are falling into the same trap that game developers did when they wanted a slice of every USED game sold as well.

Fox is wrong. Once you BUY a DVD, it is yours. If you choose to rent it out, then OK. If Fox doesn't want sales to end in rentals, then stop all sales. All sales. Bet that won't happen.

The ability of one company to cry foul, whether or not it is legitimate, is another one of the bulkheads of capitalism – it's not just about a free market – it's also about the right of the participants in that market to compete against each other in any way that isn't deemed illegal. I may not agree with what the movie makers are doing in this particular instance, but they have a right to protect their business model. After all, they came up with it. That alone makes it an intellectual property and defendable. Redbox has come up with an innovative strategic business plan, but in the long run is it good for the movie business? Probably not. The music business is in the middle of this particular dilemma right now and believe me, If things keep going the way they are going, yes, music will be free, but it will all be absolute crap. I'd rather pay for good stuff than get crap for free.

Ron in Atlanta,

I understand the point you're trying to make. But I don't know if you're quite right, I may not be either. These big budget actors and actresses won't do a movie unless they get paid $20 million. You know the director and executive producer are getting tens of millions as well. Am I the only one who thinks this is insane??!! Don't forget, they all get paid everytime the movie is shown on TV, not to mention everytime someone buys the $20-$40 DVD. Wouldn't be great if this $1 rental may help "correct" the inflated values Hollywood puts on its industry. How many big budget movies that come out aren't really worth watching UNTIL it comes out on video? How many small budget movies are amongst your all-time favorites? Why can't these actors, actresses, directors, executives accept a paycut like pretty much everyone else has had to do recently? I think its highly doubtful that Redbox renting $1 movies would cause this anyway.....but wouldn't be great to see these people make half of what they make now so that the cost of going to the movies and buying a favorite DVD didn't cost so damn much.....they'll still be making more money after 1 movie than most of us will in our lives

I don't use Redbox, but I can understand how it is very convenient for people who have it located close to them, and man only $1 a day, nice! But I prefer Netflix (lol @ people talking bad about Netflix).
With Netflix, I can rent 6 movies at a time. They take usually about a day, 2 days MAX (unless you live in Alaska or some crap), and I can keep them as long as I want, AND I can rent as many (6 at a TIME) as I want.

So, I rent 6 movies, get them here tommorow, watch them all in a day, send them back the next day, 6 more get sent out. That's basically 12 movies in 4 days! Plus online streaming movies with there Watch Instantly. Wow, I should work for Netflix .

Holy crap people. This really has nothing to do with copyright in any way.

I think the movie companies actually have a point here.

The reason movie rental places generally have to pay the movie companies is because rental is essentially a replacement for buying the movies. If you want to watch a movie, you could either buy a copy of the DVD or go rent it right?

When a rental place buys a DVD, they pay the one time cost of the DVD (say 14$,) however, they can rent that DVD out many many times without any further cost.

Now if instead of 100 people buying 100 DVDs, 100 people instead rent the 1 copy of the DVD purchased, the Movie company is losing out bigtime. instead of 1,400 dollars being spent on DVDs (100 dvds assuming 14 dollar retail), now 14 dollars is spent (1 dvd.) The movie company is therefore earning 1% of what they would have if people bought DVDs. To compensate for this loss, movie rental places pay a percentage of their profit back to the movie company, and up the price of rental to cover it.

Heres the problem with Redbox
With 1$ rentals, a person would have to plan on watching a movie 14 times in their life to make it worth buying on DVD instead of renting 14 times, therefore DVD sales will drop off dramatically, with people renting instead of buying. But if the DVD company is no longer selling as many DVDs AND isnt getting anything back from redbox, it seems as though their profits will be severely impacted.

I dont know how much profit the movie companies are making on DVD sales, but it does seem as though this could be very very harmful to them.

If the movie companies raise the price of DVDs, even more people will be renting instead of buying, even further hurting them. It seems a vicious circle for the movie companies.

So let me get this straight, we have to pay about 10 bucks to see the movie once in a theater, I can't legally copy a dvd I own to my computer to have a digital backup, and now I can't rent a movie for a buck from a company that gives consumers a great deal? Nope, instead the movie industry has to stick it's greasy hands in other businesses cookie jars because grossing hundreds of a millions of dollars a week at the box office just isn't enough.

As usual, the entertainment industry is greedy and works to piss if its customers. Redbox clearly has a right to buy the DVD and do whatever they want with them. They bought them fair and square. I remember this whole thing on MP3s. Entertainment execs continue to be their own worst enemy.

Between the movie and music industry I am sick and tired of their whining and lawsuits. I say boycott the whole system. Stop buying CD's and stop patronizing all big studio/ label products....They are standing in the way of all technological progress. Their greed and avarice bring nothing to the cultural table. They are only a bunch of lawyers and studio hacks/exec's and are already over paid, they make nothing creative. It is the creative artists who are under paid and deserve remuneration, not the lawyers.

uhm, interesting. What ever happened to free enterprise. This is really something else, talk about price fixing. Thank you for reporting on this. Amazing how one industry complains about the whole practice of what drives prices down.

Sounds like its time for obama to redistribute some of the citizens tax revenue to the movie studios.

RedBox is the #1 ^_^ so cheap that i don't have to buy movies anymore. just rent them for $1 return it within 24 hours and if you decide to see the movie again with some friends the next week then rented again for $1, you will never reach the price of retail ($15 to $30) only if you rent the movie around 20 times of-course.

A movie makes its money at the box office, from all the people paying $10/ea to watch it at the theater. That was the primary profit stream for all movies well before there were ever VCR's or DVD players. All production costs and actor salaries were derived from that gross income. Whatever was left over was profit. The only other money made was when a movie was shown on TV. The invention of the VCR and DVD player allowed them to generate more income from the sale of tapes and disks.

The rental market came about afterwards, which generated a third income stream. I never heard of a file that depended on DVD sales and rentals to make back their production costs. In fact, you have to dig to find out how many DVD's were sold, and I've never seen any stats showing how often a movie was rented or the income it generated.

A studio makes lots of money off of total DVD sales, which come from the 100 copies of each movie that Blockbuster buys as rentals. I doubt Walmart sells any meaningful number of disks that can generate millions of dollars.

The movie companies seem only to care that Redbox generates profit and doesn't share it, not that their movies are being "undervalued". Do CEO's not go to their local libraries any more? Most libraries will rent a movie the same way Blockbuster, Netflix, or Redbox does, but libraries are FREE.

Why don't the movie companies care about that? After all, if I had to choose between someone valuing my product at $1 and someone valuing it as free, I would much rather have people pay a dollar to get it.

The only reason movie companies don't care about libraries giving free rentals of their movies is because there's no profit for the companies to ask royalties from.

Face it. The movie companies are just upset that they aren't getting their cut of someone else's profit. It has nothing to do with the perceived value of their product.

Well how about you stop paying the acters 2-3 mil to make a movie?

The movie industry is at it again. They seem to think they can have the law gurantee them profit. No one else is guaranteed that. Can I get a guarantee on my profit too? They enjoy a copyright protection that is has a stricter interpretation than for any other product. When will they realize that maybe their business model is simply obsolete, and the consumers are tired of it. The party is over, deal with it.

i just wished that RedBox could some how stream or sell a digital version online. I love em! Blockbuster charges like 4 bucks but you can keep it a week... that's less than a dollar a day. if RedBox buys the movie from the studio, what's the problem?

Lower overhead than rental store = lower price. If they want to band up and start their own $5 kiosks go for it. Or maybe they want everyone to just start pirating movies as much as music. Or people could just forget it and watch the cable TV they already pay for. If you average it out over time it is not even THAT cheap. Yeah, $1 sounds cheap for $5 for 5 nights? Starts sounding more familiar.

Go Redbox! The studios are pure greed machines. Know how movie studios can make more profit? Stop paying actors 25 million dollars for one movie! Actors are way overpaid. Studios: Leave RedBox alone and look within your own operations to find more profits. Pure greed like this makes me sick.

Redbox thought of something first and made money from it. The movies execs are upset becasue they didn't think of it. GTFOI. The fact that they want wholesalers to stop selling them movies is sad and pathetic.

I LOVE REDBOX!!!!! HOLLYWOOD MESS WITH REDBOX AND YOU MESS WITH US(the buying public).

tuesday morning at 12:01am new releases are available, the rushes are amazing for those that know about it.....

Redbox Rocks ! Why should I pay $10.00 for a movie when I can get the same movie for a $1 ?
Movie Studios and your industry you can go to _____ and ______
yourselves ! Capitalism should be about freedom of choices and not a monopoly where the consumer has no options. Go live in Russia or China and yes, you can't have the popcorn and eat it too !

@David

Your theory doesn't really fly because the Redbox machines hold a very limited number of titles each and in limited quantities. This means that if someone wants to re-watch a movie they have to hope their local Redbox has it and they aren't out of them. Redbox is great for compulsive last minute rentals, but for re-watching titles that someone enjoys over and over again they will still buy them – especially since the purchase price of DVDs has really fallen to the $10 and under range.

This type of behavior by the studios should be considered anti-competitive and investigated under anti-trust laws. Nothing illegal was done – they're just angry because someone found a great business model that commoditizes their product. They need to learn to live with reality – all products commoditize over time. The way to adjust the business model to deal with that is not to implement restrictive rules or anti-competitive acts to force pricing, but to find a way to improve the perceived value of the product. It's business 101... Look at what Disney has started doing – they bundle the DVD with the BD release and charge more for the combo pack. It's worked great. People with BD players will buy because of the BD quality, and most have a DVD player somewhere too... what happens is the perceived value of the bundle is higher and it gets bought despite an increase in cost to the customer. I bought Bolt like that for my kids, and despite the higher package price I found it to be a great value.

I first checkout a movie with redbox, if the movie is neither all hype nor hard sell, and worth adding to my collection–for me & my circle to see again ( and again), then I buy myself a copy. In this way I know am getting my monies worth.

Thus Redbox helps consumers & encourages the movie industry to produce movies worth buying & keeping. Good movies entertain and sell because from the actors/actress (good ones are expensive but have the draw), storyline, the whole crew, etc..are just done so well.

Redbox - good !

We don't have Redbox in my area but we do have other $1 a day kiosks and I like them except they useusakyy don't have BlueRay. However it seems to me their is a easy solve, maybe some lawyer types know better by why don't the movie companies simply change the way they license their products. Treat movies like computer software licenses so that essentially you are purchasing the right to view the movie, but the movie remains the movie studios intellectual property. Many software license are not transferable and you can't move the software to another computer even if its only installed on 1 machine at a time.

Yeah for Redbox – I love that company! I can RESERVE online and pick up when I want to and where I want to for $1 a day. Blockbuster, et al could do the same if they did $1 a day instead of $4 – $5 for several days before the return. It is really the same if you do the math except Blockbuster "gives" you the extra days....excuse me, you "pay" for the extra days. I only need it for one night and $1 is just fine with me. Pure greed on the studio's parts and I hope the courts neuter them over this.
And by the way – new release movies on DVD and Blu-Ray are WAY overpriced these days. We all need to work together during these hard times.

Redbox – keep up the good work and don't give into the studios. Go buy the movies at retail if you have to, and hike the price up a small amount if necessary to offset the additional costs. The consumer will still rent from you – your service is excellent and will continue to see demand from consumers.

The movie companies are obviously trying to screw Redbox. They've done this with every new technology that came out. I remember when the MPAA tried to have the record feature of VCR's banned, claiming that taping movies that were broadcast on TV somehow violated their copyrights.

What I can't understand why anyone would rent DVD's instead of buying them.

I can but a new-release movie that I know I like for around $15, and watch it free of charge, for the rest of my life. $15/20-40 years comes out to $.002 to $.004 per day – less than a penny. And I can watch them again any time I want to – no spending gas to drive to the store, or waiting for something to show up in the mail.

And for the rest (99%) of the movies, just about every retail store has a 'dump bin' with DVD's clearance priced, usually around $5. I just look through those when I'm in the store and grab a movie or two if I find anything that looks interesting. I've found some pretty good films that way that I hadn't noticed when they came out. For the one or two a year that I pick-up that I can't stand, I usually find a friend who's interested that I can give it away too.

Either way, it's cheaper than a movie ticket with popcorn. I go to the theater now maybe once a year. And I have probably a few hundred movies at home now that I can watch, instead of just one or two.

Redbox is awsome. The movie industries should have thought about this when they made their copy right laws. They can't control the rules, Redbox is legal and they should fight to maintain their business. The movie industry already makes enough money.

I am outraged! This is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard. Why on earth would Fox want to stifle the Red Sox? I mean, I can understand if you're a Yankees fan that you wouldn't want the Red Sox to win, but shouldn't Fox Sports broadcast Red Sox games as well? The Red Sox are as good a team as the Yankees. Yes, the Yankees beat them four straight games a couple of weeks ago, but don't forget, the Red Sox beat the Yankees eight times in the first half of the year. Yes, we know the Yankees have some loyal and rabid fans. But the Red Sox do too! And they deserve to see their games broadcast on television as well. Fox, don't stifle the Red Sox.

What? Redbox? Oh. Nevermind.

The MPAA and the RIAA still don't get it do they?

We so need red box DVD rentals to open in Australia.

We only get $1 Tuesday. $1 dollar every day would kick arse and kill competition.

I love how movie and music companies are trying to sue or restrict people left and right. Every time i see a company like fox or a music label try to sue or screw an innocent person i quit buying their products. HIT THEM WHERE IT HURTS THEIR OVERSIZED WALLETS

I say we boycot all blockbuster and netflix and just rent from redbox. It just sounds like the movie industry is trying to act like the mafia and hustle redbox for a piece of their profits.

i absolutely hate red box. nothing aggrivates me more than having to politely wait on some schmuck who is taking 30 mins to pick out one of the usually pretty lame b grade horror flicks the kiosk has to offer

I am firmly on the side of RedBox.
Those movie studios, along with Apple, shall all perish due to their abuse of copyright and anti-consumer behaviors.

Go RedBox! Go RedBoz! GO! As you can see, nothing disgusts the consumer more than a company and/or industry trying to fatten it's pockets when their pockets are already busting at the seams!

I say, "POP UP EVEN MORE REDBOX STANDS AND EXPAND THE MOVIES SELECTION and WE'LL KEEP A COMIN, BABY"!

Although I don't personally use Redbox but I think it's a cheap alternative compare to BB and the like. Why would they pay a penny to the big productions? They're the one who come up with this idea. These hollywood big players just want a piece of the pie – a piece that they don't deserve – all because of one word "GREED".

I am on Redbox's side on this. Have used them only a couple of times but it was very convenient. Good business model.

I do wonder though.... if Redbox does not have any kind of deal with the distributors/movie studios and just buys the dvds wholesale, how is that not breaking copyright law? I thought charging for the viewing of a privately owned movie was illegal? I'm no lawyer, so I don't know. Someone enlighten, please.

to film studios(if you even listen): a way to help consumers & your profitability: compete with Redbox - since you already own the movies - exclusive Universal or Fox $1 DVD kiosks ? It takes millions to make a movie, why not start with a few kiosks. It took a YEAR for Redbox to expand from New York/Washington/Virginia to Florida, I know, we(senior citizens) had to wait that LONG for them (phone calls, online follow up, etc).

More kiosks: less aggravation from slow users. More customer traffic for supermarkets where the kiosks are. (I'll return these DVDs, oh I need some milk, eggs, those jeans look cool..). Summum bonum.

Read previous posts - Canadians & Australians want these kiosks. Are you guys in business to fight demand ? Wake-up, Disney is already into it.

I love Redbox...even if I forget to return a movie for a few days, I still get the movie cheaper than if I rented from BB or some other high-priced movie-rental retailer. The concept is pure genius...it's convenient; there are Redboxes ALL OVER the place! If one is too crowded (which rarely happens at the locations I use), I can just go a couple of blocks in either direction and there's my choice of Target, Giant or Shoppers where I can rent/return. Once I forgot to return movie just before I left for a long road trip from D.C. to Georgia- no problem, I just stopped at Wal-Mart in North Carolina and dropped in the box.

Redbox has bent the rules to spin a profit – since they are undervaluing the product, it needs to change.

People need to get a grip – if you think renting a movie for $3 is unfair, then you are way out of line. $1 is ridiculous and over time, this devaluing will hurt the movies we see. Man up, pay for your entertainment, stop trying to play the victim. This is an optional entertainment product, not a core part of your life – GET A GRIP.

I wonder how much taxpayer stimulus and bailout money is supporting the movie industries attacks on redbox.. You all do know that taxpayers subsidize the movie industry and pay celebrity salaries right? Just ask your local congressman, or take the time to read some of the legislation that your local congressman does not bother to read.

@Ann (sic) Rand:

Capitalism is of benefits to the consumer? Tell that to Standard Oil, Ma Bell, Blue Cross/Shield...

Can it breed innovation? Yes. It is in no way an unmitigated benefit to consumers and only the foolish suggest otherwise.

With a wife and three boys on a modest single family income, I don’t go to the movies. A trip to the movies can easily cost me $60. We rent from Redbox. If we really like a movie THEN we purchase it for my kids to be able to watch again. If the studios force redbox to raise the process, then I will just have to stop renting altogether. My family and I enjoy the movies, but make no mistake – we do not NEED the movies to be entertained.

The film industry seems very proud of their product. I really can't count the number of times that even $1 was way too much for the uninspired drivel I watched. Those times far outnumber the good movies.

stop paying brad pitt 20 million a movie and maybe the studios
would make more money.
Or any overpaid actor!

So What? I won't stop going to Redbox, I'll just stop renting Fox movies,if they are not there.

These media companies are a bunch of greedy control freaks. The whole issue is control. The movie studios (and music companies as well), unlike most every other industry on the planet, seeks to control their product even after they have sold it to the consumer. If you purchase a car, a television, a can of soda or any other product on the market, the seller's control over that product ends the moment you complete that transaction. If I buy a new car it's mine. I can get a new stereo, new wheels, modify the engine or drive it off a cliff. There is nothing that the manufacturer can do about it. If I decide to rent that car out, again, nothing they can do. But media companies are greedy. They want control of their product far beyond what most people consider reasonable. They don't understand the concept of ownership as most logical people do. Redbox paid for the disks they rent, therefore the studios were compensated for their product. If they want more money then they should raise the price of their product. But piggy-backing off of someone else's efforts to make a few extra pennies is ridiculous.

In response to Ann Rand, pure capitalism is a failure and doesn't exist. Every industry that ever existed at some point is regulated, usually with good reason. There are numerous examples of this throughout the history of mankind. Capitalism without some manner of checks and balances has proven to be unsustainable.

Those media companies will never be happy until they can rip everyone off. I dont like paying $5 for a crappy movie (which is all hollywood has been putting out) so losing $1 isnt so bad. I enjoy the redbox rentals but if the price goes up even $1 ill quit renting there simply because the media nazis got their way.

If the movie industry wants to compete with Redbox, they need to *gasp* LOWER the prices of their movies. It's ridiculous to pay 15-20 dollars on a movie that costs them pennies to make. Lower the price to 5 dollars on movies, and people will be more willing to go buy copies for themselves rather than pay a dollar to rent for a day.

Use NetFlix people, you'll never go back.

Redbox is not "cheap" overall and is no threat to Fox! It's all about their greed, not their pride in the dedication to their craft (as suggested in their recent statement). Netflix is per month, redbox is per day. $1 per day rental = $28 approximately per month, far more expensive than netflix! Especially if one keeps the movie for longer. It is simply a more cost effective option for people who can't afford to commit to a monthly agreement or who need an extra instant movie. They are also 24 hours, which no rental stores are.

In addition, I have often purchased a DVD after watching it via a rental service including redbox. If Fox don't stop their greedy nonsense, maybe I will boycott purchasing their movies because I am sick of the constant whine of musicians and film makers who appear to forget that it is not the studios who make them rich and famous, it is we the people who keep getting blamed for ripping them off!

Maybe the studios should try making DVDs that your have to pay for each time you watch it till you spend enough to "buy" it at their price?
Oh yea thats right, they tried that once and it FAILED! a la Divx

I think redbox is a hell of a deal.I am on a fixed income and it is wonderful to rent a movie for a buck.These big companys do not care about you and me as long as they make lots of money.You are great redbox do not cave in to the pressure.Oh I am an old man so I know a good deal and you damn few of them these days.

Following the logic that DVDs are only for private viewing then Blockbuster and Hollywood video are also renting them illegally. What they do with it after they make the purchase should be up to them. I say hooray for Redbox. They came up with a great innovative idea.

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with hollywood video going away and blockbuster on the rocks... i see that the red boxes have raised their rate in my community, (Yakima, WA) by 15 percent... to 1.15 per night... LOL eliminate the competition, raise the rates??

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As YouTube.com and PPT slideshow are more and more popular, many people have a problem: how to put YouTube films on Microsoft PowerPoint, how to play a FLV file in PowerPoint?
Here I will introduce you two simple methods about how to put YouTube video on PowerPoint.
I. Firstly convert, secondly insert:
Step 1: Convert the downloaded YouTube video to formats that PPT support, such as AVI, MPEG and WMV formats.
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Step 2: Put the converted FLV to PPT.
Click "Insert" tab at the top of PowerPoint 2007, choose "Movie", to select the video you want, the film's interface will appear. You can free adjust the player's zoom size. You can choose either showing the video automatically when the slideshow begins to play or showing when you click the video.
II. Using Windows Media Player Control to insert YouTube video into PowerPoint:
Step 1: Since Windows Media Player does not support some format, you should install FFDshow codec first. After the installation of the decoder, you can insert YouTube video into PowerPoint using Windows Media Player Control.
Step 2: Open the Control function by clicking the office button, choose "More Commands" and then select "Show Developer tab in the Ribbon". Then you can see the multi-tab "Developer". Choose "More Controls" in "Controls", and then select the "Window Media Player" in the dialog box. After the mouse changing to"+" shape, you can drag moving the mouse in editing area to add Windows Media Player to the slide. Right-click it and choose "Properties", the dialog box pop-up. Add in the "URL" item of the input video file and the whole path name (if the video file and slide file are in the same folder, you do not need to enter the path).
Well, you can choose any of the two methods to insert FLV to PPT as you like. And I think to insert YouTube video into PowerPoint can be very easy for you.

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Redbox is losing each of its lawsuits. At the end of the day, if you take someone else's product and distribute it in a way that hurts their profits, something has got to give. Redbox tried to sue the studios, and turns out they had no legal ground at all.

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