Redbox's owner files for bankruptcy after repeatedly missing payments and payroll: The company hasn’t paid employees in over a week and owes money to almost everyone in Hollywood ($970M in debt)
Redbox's owner files for bankruptcy after repeatedly missing payments and payroll: The company hasn’t paid employees in over a week and owes money to almost everyone in Hollywood ($970M in debt)
It owes money to Universal, Sony, Lionsgate, Warner Bros., and more.
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If they're gonna go outta business soon, I better keep an eye on this. I could get some real cheap movies, even though I doubt there will be anything I'd watch. I could relive the days where my family was able to keep a physical DVD from back in the ancient times when Netflix was not a streaming service.
Edit: Netflix was a scam artist even back then! Brought this up with my mother and she said Netflix charges us for the price of the DVD!
It might be kinda cool to have a personal Redbox in the basement cave
If I had the space and money to buy a Redbox machine, I would just so I could have one of the coolest storage devices for all my DVDs.
That’s the function of my NAS, the bonus is it holds significantly more movies and doesn’t cost anything to rent 🏴☠️
You're missing the point. But thanks.
Yeah, I knew the point, but then I realized my NAS in the basement is basically a more convenient Redbox with more movies for free and wanted to brag about piracy. It’s just so good. It would be cool to have a Redbox machine but tbh I’d really prefer one of those Netflix CDN boxes.
What's a NAS?
Network Attached Storage. A computer on a network designed to store files people work on. It usually has several hard drives that work together for extra speed and redundancy if a hard drive fails.
A Network Attached Storage (NAS) is a storage device that is put on a computer network, so different users can access it. Think of it as your own personal cloud.
Pretty cool. Thanks.
That's called Jellyfin
I think the implication was they wanted the actual physical part, not just access to lots of movies
Re-thinking it, I think that would be kinda cool.
It's not far off from people who own jukeboxes
Burning all the DVDs would be a pain in the ass, but I do have most of a spindle that I haven't touched since...2013?
No, if you're going to have a DVD jukebox, you're going to buy them. No burning. You can get tons of great random movies from pawn shops and other stores. That would be half the fun of it.
Naw, if I'm going to have a DVD jukebox, it's gonna be as bootleg as it gets. Converting AVIs to whatever the fuck format DVD players understand was a pain in the ass then, I'm sure converting MKVs backwards to the same format is still equally annoying, but it's the principle of the thing.
Is jellyfin a giant machine that has Blu-rays in it with posters?
Jellyfin is open source, so if you have the hardware and know .NET
C (? I'm guessing on this part), it could beEdit; I guessed wrong
Just check ebay, most movies that are a few years old can be found for under $5 shipped. I still go back to DVD/Bluray copies of my favorite movies sometimes since content changes so often on streaming services.
That's how I got my favorite CD and Discman, among other things. If I ever get serious about collecting, I'm definitely going through them because I haven't had any problems (that they could prevent) with their services since I started getting things on them this year.