Say Goodbye to Redbox

People will only realize once it's too late how valuable access to physical, offline media truly is. The streaming services get worse every year, and even if internet bandwidth weren't a concern, I've seen some movies disappear from even Rental services once they go behind yet-another-company-streaming-silo.

So we basically lost a source of rental movies encoded with a good bitrate :(. All the streaming services AFAIK do not match Blu-ray quality and keep on cutting streaming and storage cost. Adding insult to injury all the Paramount and co. want to play wannabe Netflix and cratter millions of dollars into subpar and expensive streaming services. If enthusiasts are forced to either buy those movies or torrent, it is easy to predict what will happen.

I can't say I'm totally shocked. I'm actually a bit surprised by how many people don't even have DVD players any longer. Guess I should liquidate all my coins sitting in a bucket (which I believe is the same company).