Redbox Set To Compete With Netflix On Video Streaming 119
First time accepted submitter roc97007 writes "Looks like Netflix may be getting some much needed competition in the video streaming market. From the article: 'Later this month, Redbox will offer an unlimited streaming-video plan that includes movies from Warner Bros. and pay TV channel Epix, along with four nights of physical DVD rentals, for $8 a month, or $9 a month if customers want Blu-ray discs. The offering is a direct attack on Netflix Inc. and is priced even lower than the $10-a-month DVD and streaming plan that Netflix abandoned a year ago. The lowest price plan from Netflix that combines DVDs-by-mail and streaming is now $16 a month.'"
Re:Linux? (Score:3, Interesting)
And now that Netflix under Wine works [compholio.com], we might have two options!
Re:Only mainstream blockbusters? (Score:5, Interesting)
While the price and features of the Redbox service are similar to what's offered by Netflix, its library is smaller and focused mainly on the most popular Hollywood fare, which Strickland says are the movies that "really matter in the marketplace."
Well, that pretty much rules out my tastes, then. No thanks.
Agreed. I joined Netflix several years ago because of all of the things they rented that I couldn't get at the local rental places.
Easy to beat Netflix... (Score:5, Interesting)
It would be awesome if Netflix was an online library of movies and TV shows, nearly everything produced in the past 100 years. Unfortunately it seems it is quite far from that goal and Redbox doesn't seem to be much of a competitor at this point.
Hardly competition at all! (Score:2, Interesting)
Wake me up when they start getting anywhere near 1% of the stuff available as torrents...