Submitted 4 months ago by DrGiltspur@lemmy.world to movies@lemm.ee
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/21/24183454/redbox-universal-missed-payment-17-million
The DVD rental kiosk company was supposed to pay $16.7 million in three installments. After missing the first payment, there’s a court order to pay the whole balance.
Y’all are knocking redbox, and you’re increasingly right for most places, but for many rural areas their internet is still very slow and/or data capped that makes video impossible
You’re absolutely right about rural areas. My dad has satellite internet and it’s so slow. We get ads for satellite internet in our mail all the time. I’ve looked into them and apart from the 1-3 MBPS speeds, there’s always a data cap. If I had their internet, I’d definitely use Redbox more.
Starlink has gotten pretty good if you can stomach paying $100+ a month to Elon.
Instead, its CEO, Bill Rouhana, proceeded to fire the company’s entire board of directors, including his own wife.
Things must be pretty awkward at their house lmao
It may have something to do with limiting their personal liability
Punish them the same way they punished their own customers: charge their credit card and tell them they can now keep the titles they forgot to return.
I remberworking at Blockbuster when they pulled that. It was the called “The End of Late Fees”. No late fees ever, return your video whenever you’d like^1^!
^1^ If not returned after five days, we assume you wanted to buy it for the current full retail price and charge your credit card on file accordingly.
I remember walking barefoot to Blockbuster from the neighborhood pool to rent N64 games. Good fucking times
As the drone giving that news, it was so bad for TV shows. Someone rented Planet Earth which came in a 4 disc set for $100. If you lose 1 disk, we required ordering another full set. Someone lost the entire collection and was required to pay $400. I loved that job, but they made terrible decisions towards the end.
I read the title as Roblox and was going to make a joke about finally knowing Mr. Tallarico’s valuation for his sound.
His mother’s very proud.
Pistcow@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Not a lot of new movies coming out these days and there’s DVDs in there that are years old. Covid was fun times as they had the first Sonic move listed as a new release for almost 2 years.