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artjazzandsoul · 04-03-2019, 11:17 PM

Anyone use it, as opposed to Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, etc.?
What's so special about it?

I will say that if they start offering porn, they'll have to change that name to something else.

tpepsi · 04-04-2019, 06:05 PM

Only advantage I see is that if you don't have high speed internet, you may have a smoother experience with a disc instead of streaming.

guy fawkes · 04-04-2019, 07:00 PM

There are many people who still cannot afford the cost of internet. I travel close to 260 days a year and to a lot of rural towns. Red box is cheaper to then than internet. Many homes in these areas are far awy from any service

Mokoa · 04-05-2019, 12:29 AM

DVD players are so cheap these days (thirty bucks at WalMart, for example) plus the cheap rentals at Redbox? Yep, quite a viable option.

sjomonty · 04-05-2019, 02:10 PM

Redbox now offers streaming as well, so you can get still in theater movies for a small price.

Precious_b · 04-05-2019, 07:26 PM

I've only used Redbox once or twice (Provider suggestion.)
Both times the DVD was damaged and wouldn't play.

@Mokoa, yeah, they are cheap. I remember buying the ones that you could specifically hack to play all regions.

artjazzandsoul · 04-06-2019, 11:42 PM

I remember the good ol' days when you could hack into your neighbor's cable TV signal and watch scrambled porn.

Secret Encounters · 04-17-2019, 07:33 AM

Remember this ??

GinoV · 04-17-2019, 06:46 PM

What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is that contraption.

Mokoa · 04-17-2019, 07:00 PM

It is a cable TV box. You used it to select a channel to watch. The cable connected to the back and another cable connected it to a TV. You tune the TV to channel 3 and then use the contraption to tune the cable channel you want to watch. I used that particular model back when I was subscribed to Bexar County Cablevision.