Several weekends ago I wanted to rent a movie NOW! The fastest way to do that would have been to rent it from the PS3, but the rentals there start at $2.99, or from Amazon.com, but I don't know yet how to stream it the TV.
Then I remembered seeing the Redbox at several locations just down the street. After signing up at their site, I headed out. First a stop at the store to get popcorn. So I went in the store and there is this Moviecube so I figured it must be similar to the other one, so I just rented a movie through it. I get home and watch the movie. A couple hours later I checked that redbox had sent me a code for one free rental. Hell yeah! So I decided I would return the Moviecube one early. I get to the store where the Moviecube is and the screen shows it "clocking", and someone in the store said that the machine was being restarted. I went to the redbox, rented a movie and decided to return the movicube one the next day.
Next day comes and the movicube machine is in still "clocking", so I return the redbox one and for the movicube one I had to call the customer service so they could verify and then I returned it into a black drop box on the side of the machine.
I didn't want to write this much on this... anyways the point really is My first Movicube rental experience not so good. My first Redbox movie rental experience good.
I checked their websites today and it seems Moviecube has updated their site, they have a signup section now and took a page out of redbox's playbook by offering one free movie rental for signing up.
I wonder which one of these will end up being the winner, or is there room for two ala Blockbuster and Hollywood Video?
hmmm... maybe I should just sign up for netflix or the blockbuster online...
Ya'll have a good weekend...!!!
