Movie Booth DVD rental kiosks head for UK, Ireland
By Darren Murph 
posted June 20th 2008 3:33PM
posted June 20th 2008 3:33PM
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I love the fact that you have seen fit to ad 'lads' after the Irish part. But I think 'lassies' would have been better than dames, even if it's less respectful.
I shall ignore these kiosks and continue to visit cinemas and illegally watch videos online like a normal person with waaay too much tome on their hands.
We have Redbox around here, with $1 rentals. It's hard to beat that.
Yep, I've seen them at my local Ralph's, though I've never used one. The torrents are even harder to beat.
This would bring back the old buy, burn, return method without all the guilt, and hassle.
They should wash that tome off of their hands.
"Undisclosed fee"
Considering the unit in the picture has two big signs that say £2 rentals I'm going to assume rentals are £2.
Good eye! People need to LATFP!!!
That would make sense, only for the purposes of this article--and since the UK and Ireland are not on the same currency--I think it's safe to say that as of this writing it's uncertain if they will be charging 2.51524116 Euros to match the British Pound price listed on the machine.
But will it be easy to use and have the latest releases?
I see people using these all the time at the Supermarket. I'll stick with Netflix, thanks...diggin' the Blu-Ray.
obvious poster missed obvious sign
Is this meant to replace the Chinese guy round the corner?
He'll give me five deeveedees for £5
Are these self-destructing DVDs?
I don't thinks so. I see people line up at the Red-Boxes returning them.
We have these already! there is a place in colchester that has had it for aaages!
24hour unmanned dvd rental place..
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How do these work, do i have to stand around and wait for a dvd to be burned? What if my dvd player does not play burned media?
No, they're real, legitimate DVDs.
Will means the DVDs aren't burned. They are already in the machine waiting to be grabbed.
Think claw-machine meets soda machine.
Why does it look like Tron?
Oh, by the way, the 90's called; they want their color palette back.
Needs blacklights and maybe a disco ball.
We have had these at Southampton University (UK) for 2 years. I have access to the student's union accounts and can state that less than 40 dvds were 'rented' from our box over the last year.
When self destructing dvds become as cheap to produce as normal ones this may well become a viable idea.
And from a distance, you can look like you're getting porno from a machine.
Who will replace my key board now that I have puked all over it?
Okay Zach, fine. But this is the last time
We have one at my university too (durham university)
Although I can't say I have access to the accounts, I also can't say
I've seen a single person look at the device, never mind use it!
And the internet access at uni is so good anyway, people just stream stuff.
sweet
sweet
self fail.
Applegreen? ITS TEH BIASZ!!!!
oh wait that's something else.
Ok, no late fees so i can have it as long as i like for £2?
Whats stopping me from forgetting to return it? I presume you have to use a debit/credit card and you cant pay cash?
WHats with this old school dvd, bluray crap... I thought the world was going green.. Download your movies people....
Yeah, we bought a couple of these (different model, though) and started a company here in Berlin.
It FAILED.
we had those around my area before too, but mainly only kiddos who weren't old enough use that to rent porns and 18+ movies
I have seen little shops like this in the UK, which just have one massive dvd selector, and man guarding it and 4 or so screens for people to get DVD's.
2 out of the 3 shops have now closed down.
What stops someone from not returning the DVD?
Be cool if you could just stick your USB stick in there and have a movie copied over without having to use a DVD...
Had these for almost two years in Ireland. There's been one sitting in the UCD Library building for at least a year, and in some shopping centres as well. In short, this is yesterdays news, today.
damn those have been around for yearssssssssss
u mean we actually got something before the uk? no shit! too bad it was just something as shitty as this.
well actually i have a love/hate relationship with them. around here movies are just $1. but 80% of the time the machines are off with an out-of-order sign or have some kind of windows xp error on the screen that you cant get out of.
as far as the questions above, you use the touch screen to select an in-stock movie. some models let you choose up to 3 or 5 at once. then u swipe your credit/debit card. if its ur first time, itll ask for your email address. you click that you agree to the terms and conditions, and then the movies pop out. you get a receipt via email and have 24 hours to return the movies. although there are no "late fees" there are the posted rental charges. so if you keep the movie for extra days, your card keeps getting charged the rental charge. after x days (varies, usually like 30 days) they charge you a purchase amount for the movie and its just yours now.
Driving to a Tesco instead of renting it online? Yea! Have my VC money! That really if the future!
I moved in Indiana almost a year ago and i saw similar things like this called redbox, someone mentioned them above too.
So we tried it out. It was great and it's the only way we rent movies now. Pretty convenient since there is one at a business right behind where i live.
You pick out your movie, swipe your credit card and your movie pops out. It costs $1 here, but then run promotions all the time to get free rentals. You have until 9:00 the next night to stick it back in the machine or you get charged another $1. If you lose it or forget you get charged $1 every night until you hit 25 nights, then you get to keep the dvd and it stops charging you.
Can't beat it with the fact that blockbuster is over $4 to rent a movie now and with netflix you have to plan ahead too much, when i want to watch a movie i don't want to wait for it to come in the mail.