Redbox is DEAD... so I bought 160 Redbox DVDs 🤯

[@SmokinSilicon]

Redbox was pretty cool back in the day... rent a DVD from a vending machine?? OH YEAH! Want to buy any of the movies in this video? Sign up for WhatNot using my link, and you'll get a $15 credit: www.whatnot.com/invite/jacobr The livestream to auction off the movies will be on August 7th at 7pm EST.

[@alexslusher16]

7:28 Why don't you just rip the discs using Make MKV and make a digital copy of the content?

[@sparda9060]

@@alexslusher16 it takes long time to rip the discs. it would be faster to download the movies from a torrent lol

[@nigelfreeman6192]

@@alexslusher16 I have they are all on my server. So can watch them anywhere. Have around 30TB used so far. It is the same with all my music. Still buy CDs then rip them, also download too but in flac format have nearly 4tb. There is also a rigorous back possess in place.

[@readybear64]

I didn’t know Redbox was getting shut down. I remember my dad would rent movies every Friday night to watch alongside some microwaveable popcorn.

[@SmokinSilicon]

Great memories

[@bestechYtBotBH]

🍿🥤 😋

[@JeffCappelletti]

Chicken Soup For The Soul the owners of Redbox went bankrupt and filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy

[@deusprogrammer_thekingofspace]

Used to do the same with my mom and Blockbuster.

[@BerserkJeffy]

It ran into the ground. There was no shutdown plan. It just shutdown one day. Employees found out that day that they didn't have a job anymore.

[@rubycook4428]

Worked for the company, a lot of now terminated employees are left with thousands of movies in their possession.

[@MYKE_88]

Get together and reform a new and improved blockbuster/ planet Hollywood 🤣🤣

[@dieseldragon6756]

Nobody salvaged any kiosks, did they? They strike me as being useful as disk media storage/retrieval systems for archival use. 👍 (I wouldn't mind having one or two, but shipping to the UK might be a _rather_ costly and time-consuming process... 🤣)

[@AndrewSP37]

​@@dieseldragon6756 I had a similar thought about that kind of reuse of the kiosk. I don't know what's going to happen to them, but I know in the case of a kiosk near me that shut down in May, they turned it off and it's still sitting in the store's vestibule three months later.

[@dieseldragon6756]

@@AndrewSP37 I think some stores are just letting people take them if they request them, mainly as they're taking up valuable retail space and are a burden in themselves. Might want to have a word with the manager of that store to see if they want rid of it, and have the release to let you take it? 😇

[@FezCaliph]

@@dieseldragon6756it uses too much electricity

[@glitchsister]

Redbox shutting down is going to hurt a good portion of the population that doesnt have reliable internet, which is still a lot more people then you would imagine. redbox was a half assed eye sore compared to blockbuster but damn, theyre just gonna put poor people out of entertainment like that, librarys are getting defunded, what are they supposed to do

[@cliffordreynolds1835]

Yes there are people up here with 3Gbps upload/download who don't know how lucky they are!

[@glitchsister]

@@cliffordreynolds1835 I can barely receive SMS over 3G god

[@ChrisWehadababyitsaboy]

starlink...

[@AppropriateusernameYOUTUBE]

No hate to anyone but like how do u not have wifi- or even an internet access in the us- it’s basically required for everything nowadays

[@cliffordreynolds1835]

@@AppropriateusernameKZbin some people don't have stable high speed internet, perhaps they live in rural areas and such.

[@MegaLIzardlicker]

The one you think is the newer logo is actually the older logo. They also reused the cases so there’s no correlation between the case design and movie age.

[@dieseldragon6756]

The cases and discs aren't paired or associated with each other in any way, the cases are simply to protect the discs and make engineering the kiosk robots much more straightforward. You could take the last RedBox disc ever rented and case-swap it with the very first, and both would be accepted back from rental without any problems or additional charges. 😇

[@BraydenBunch58]

I now know how the 90’s kids feel unfortunately, It’s crazy how stuff you experience growing up becomes obsolete like Redbox, VHS, Blockbusters, And tons more. Also the "old" case is actually the "new" case.

[@blacksawjohnnyhex310]

I saw a video recently where a former employee from redbox had boxes of dvds. And said the company didn’t say anything about them.

[@bonafiedangeredpenguin5387]

Everything is technically legally abandoned even the machines Dollar general and Walgreens have gotten official approval to just do what they want with the machines most of them are hiring contractors to take them to the landfill. But people are buying them or even just asking if they can take them and they're getting to take them home so if you got the tools go ask your local location and if they approve go get yourself a machine

[@zacharylee1995]

This is why physical media is always better than streaming services, we may never know when streaming service will shut down

[@readybear64]

If your wondering, the emoji movie does exist, the thing is though please don’t watch it. It’s one of the worst movies out there.

[@PC4USE1]

As someone who started renting VHS and Beta in the early 1980s,the passing of movie rental outlets is bittersweet to me. Digital cloud copies are subject to disappearing at the drop of a hat so possession of physical media(even on your hard drive) is essential.

[@ebbamb]

You can actually own Redbox kiosks for free. I haven't done it but I've heard that a lot of stores with them basically just want them gone, and if you ask nicely enough they'll let you load it onto your pickup and take it home. Also there's still at least one working Redbox kiosk near me, I checked about a week ago.

[@dieseldragon6756]

_Working?_ That's interesting, as it sounds like RedBox's whole back-end was taken down when the company folded. Only thing I can think of is that particular kiosk lost its internet connection before that point, and so is still running in offline mode blissfully unaware that the company now ceases to exist! 😳

[@ebbamb]

@@dieseldragon6756 I’m not sure if it’s fully functional, but it was definitely plugged in and offered all the movies for rent or purchase. I clicked through the menus and everything, I didn’t try to buy any, but it seemed the same as they had been prior. It was one of those double machine displays, and the one to the left had its screen off (but it wasn’t unplugged, the disc slot was lit), and the one on the right is the one that still seemed normal.

[@dieseldragon6756]

@@ebbamb If it's still like that next time you're there, might be worth taking pot luck on a DVD purchase. The machine will take payment, but if RedBox's accounts have been closed the card payment might bounce. 😇 (N.B: Do check what the law says about this. 👍)

[@nathanknight8381]

I went to the grocery store last week and they still have a turned on unit as well outside. Screen still works, is offering rentals, but I'm a bit nervous to actually try renting/buying anything, especially being an outdoor unit it could be prone to someone tampering with the card reader.

[@SamSitar]

try renting from that red box.

[@g4money]

To my understanding, a lot of the former red box employees were left boxes of DVD’s. Especially those who didn’t receive their last paycheck.

[@0pt0utYT]

surprising to me that you haven't heard of the emoji movie lol. it was a big meme in 2017 because of how bad it was.

[@dieseldragon6756]

😋

[@FezCaliph]

Lol

[@MasseoFTW]

This is such a throwback! Redbox was the best! I loved picking out movies on those machines. Brings back so many memories.

[@bonafiedangeredpenguin5387]

I believe the kiosks have been listed as legally abandoned so ask your local locations first but you should be able to just take them pending approval from the store. the word is they want them gone and are willing to hire contractors to take them to landfills. So happy hunting! You could own a Redbox for little to nothing if you try

[@bonafiedangeredpenguin5387]

So again outside of getting approval from the store owners themselves they are essentially legally valued as garbage. Or in other words permissions have been given to store owners themselves to do what they please with them

[@bradleybruvva3021]

I still keep seeing red boxes around that are working. I just saw someone renting a movie at Walmart yesterday.

[@dieseldragon6756]

Curious...That's not the only comment of that nature I've seen here. Either some of the kiosks lost connectivity before the company went down so have switched to working in an offline mode (Meaning they don't know the company's folded) or there's some long forgotten PC sat around somewhere that's still running, and which is telling these kiosks to keep on rentin'! 🙂

[@plan7a]

As well as other rental DVD discs, the 'red' Sony DVD discs are fairly collectable, for some people. Much like the VHS rental tapes back in the day... Although having to sit through the unskippable trailers isn't always a good thing; at least with the VHS ones you could escape those - by fast forwarding!

[@marccaselle8108]

True. I just rip DVDs I buy or rent from the city library and bam, no ads.

[@mlong9475]

Funny thing is I never used Redbox to rent movies. I just used them to buy $4 - $5 used Blu-rays of blockbuster movies like Avengers and Starwars movies. For some reason they are always there. Some Pixars ones too like Toystory.

[@dieseldragon6756]

I never used RedBox myself (They never traded in the UK) but at a guess they were using from-kiosk sales as a way of disposing of unwanted/surplus inventory. If you've got a DVD sat in the machine that's lost its rental value and is just taking up space, offering it for sale from that kiosk for $3,- makes a lot of _ahem_ sense! 👍

[@bestechYtBotBH]

Just to confirm. Yep, there's a live action Beauty and the Beast with Emma Watson as Belle 😊

[@dieseldragon6756]

Closest we ever had to RedBox in the UK were a few experimental Blockbuster rental machines (Which rented out VHS cassettes) but these never caught on. Incidentally, the RedBox kiosks identified the disks via the DataMatrix codes near the center hole, which is why the photocopy trick worked with them. 💸 That center hole coding system is also why you might occasionally find a movie from 2005 in a very new case, and a 2023 movie in one old enough to belong in a museum; The cases are simply a protective shell for the disc which makes engineering the kiosk robot easier, and aren't attached/paired to the disc in any way. 😇

[@dominikamimari427]

I'm gonna miss Redbox pretty much like the ATM version of blockbuster and the thing on why i prefer blockbuster and Redbox is because their more cheaper than nowadays streaming shows heck I wouldn't be surprised if movie theaters were shutting down

[@FezCaliph]

I was old enough to see blockbuster close rapidly, and now here we are with Redbox 😮

[@attack0nmem0ry]

Dude, thanks for a great Ebay search rabbit hole! 🤘

[@coondogtheman]

I'd love to own one of the redbox machines. Put it in your living room, bypass the need for payment.and you can pick the movie and it comes out like if you rent it.

[@bluerainbug]

They've been decommissioned. You can probably pick up a machine anywhere that's just sitting idle. No one's coming for them.

[@coondogtheman]

@@bluerainbug There is one in a grocery store the next town over from me. Not sure what they plan to do with it.

[@FezCaliph]

It uses a LOT of electricity

[@coondogtheman]

@@FezCaliph I was thinking of pulling out the computer and seeing if it can play games. Can't imagine the specs of the computer not being that high because all it needs to do is play videos and control a rack of DVDs.

[@jamesthilberg]

I lived with my single father in a house in the woods without cable or internet. We had a Redbox at the local grocery store, we would rent movies very often. Redbox was my only access to modern media. Huge nostalgia and love for Redbox. I’m 26 now

[@neilbrookins8428]

That disk that says “rental” at the bottom simply means the special features are removed and it’s the movie only. So it’s less valuable than the dvd with special features.

[@ArbestRi]

0:43 - I still have a Redbox at my local Walmart.

[@SmokinSilicon]

Does it work?

[@ArbestRi]

@@SmokinSiliconNo, they put a note on the screen saying that it's "temporarily unavailable".

[@cfltheman]

There is one at a Walgreens near where I live. I haven't seen any more anywhere else. I did buy a few movies from there.

[@marla4ful]

I did see one at one at a Walmart and a 7 11. I remember renting several movie years ago.

[@carstuff4u942]

​@@SmokinSiliconNo

[@T.S.P_God5]

I remember one time I walked into my locals store, and then I was like, wait. Where's the red box machine?Because I just love looking at the cover

[@JamesCH08]

I have a local Goodwill Outlet that I buy DVDs from all the time. As much as you'd think that rentals would be in horrible condition, they often aren't in fact most of them are in like new condition like those ones on the video. Us local customers have been told by the employees there that Goodwill has storage trailers full of old donations just sitting. That's why sometimes we get large amounts of Blockbuster DVDs in like new condition at times. These DVDs will still have the Blockbuster case, or sticker on the case, and mostly all the DVDs are like these in almost BRAND NEW condition, or they are BRAND NEW condition.

[@VedM]

I remember always looking at red boxes but I would never get movies because I thought they only did rentals. But when I heard about the bankruptcy, I found out you can buy movies too! So i went to some nearby redboxes and got 4 movies

[@OneWingedDemonSlayer]

Redbox was the first time I played Skyrim on 360

[@tyresingleton4077]

The box of DVDs was for contractors to load up the kiosks. When the company filed for bankruptcy, the contractors were left with boxes of DVDs.

[@UltimateGamer027]

I miss Redbox. I remember when I was like 14 or so my parents had to leave me home alone for a few hours after I got home from school. So my parents would keep a lock box and had hidden the key somewhere (it was a different place every time) and they would put a Redbox dvd or blue-ray disc and put it in the lock box and wouldn’t tell me where the key was until I sent them pictures of my chores being done. I really miss doing that

[@LocalTorchwoodIntern]

I have a Redbox DVD from an attempt to return but it spat the DVD back out so we've kept it since and it's still one of my favorite book adaptations, Tale of Despereux !!! I've always thought bout it after keeping the DVD but we never got charged for overdue fees. My main and go to theory was we got it when the cycle was ending for the movie in the Redbox so upon returning it we couldn't because it was cycled out of the system and the box we mainly used didn't recognize it or we couldn't return it. I can believe that we accidentally scratched the code around the hole and it didn't register so. It was kinda a tradition afterwards to watch it and make soup cause of the plot of the film but we kinda stopped.

[@ypcomchic]

Redbox filed chapter 13 so that means their dvd’s are to be sold by the court to help pay their debts. If random employees are selling these disc they could get in big trouble. Theft.

[@FezCaliph]

Chapter 7 now

[@bonafiedangeredpenguin5387]

Legally everything including the machines have been officially abandoned as of the last few weeks or so. Illegally stores are able to do whatever they want with the machines so if you ask the store owners managers etc they may just give them to you if you have the proper equipment. This was the result of a lawsuit that Dollar general was pending on getting approval to dispose of the machines because they were eating electricity costs. Again I repeat do your research and ask before you take but I'm almost 100% positive legal responsibility has been given to individual location chains anyone who has a Redbox as of now in their store technically owns it and can do what they want with it machines DVDs whatever

[@SBPepperminion]

There was a Redbox in my local McDonald's. During COVID, it got removed. Also, the "old" Redbox logo you mentioned is actually the new one.

[@cloneskiller]

I saw a video of a guy that delivered them to different kiosks. Get stuk with stacks and stacks of discs. He had like 1k in inventory. Has no word as to what to do with them.

[@DominicPROTASer]

Redbox was cool, but since people in my city (Wetumpka, Alabama) just used streaming services, Redbox was shut down here, at both my Winn-Dixie and Walmart, and its probably the same in most of the areas of the US (maybe Canada). I remember my mother renting movies and we would watch them during dinner time. Most were great. But some werent my cup of tea.

[@connorrobertson5564]

I miss Blockbuster from back in the day they used to have standing crates outside their shop which held Dvds,Blu-rays and games for sale

[@stephensonmatthew7]

The question is, do they rip okay?

[@roktimibnehasan]

idk why but your videos feel like edging it never finishes

[@SlotswithDylan]

Yea it's sad to see Redbox, Family Video and Blockbuster be out of business

[@GregNice76]

A lot of these probably look new, because they might have never been out in circulation. I believe the Red Boxes in my area stopping receiving new movies or even service sometime last year.

[@eta9997]

Interesting enough zootopia was one of the last movies I rented from Redbox back in 2016. Was either that or Star Wars the force awakens

[@dflavecc]

I went to the Redbox kiosk in my area.. you can still rent dvds … but they don’t charge your card. My card was never charged or got a receipt when I typed in my email address. I got about 18-20 dvds. I could only rent 3 at a time.

[@pbscatcher]

The case you said was the oldest was the 2023 case

[@Mark6O9]

Man I remember when RedBox was that once in a while movie night for me and my family. I'll miss them

[@BeastNoVA24s]

The workers where individual contractors and red box owed them money since they couldn't make ends meet, some of them kept boxes of inventory they are prob the ones selling them.

[@cesarmeza3468]

It’s probably an employee selling what they where supposed to deliver to the kiosk

[@SlobbyGoat91]

Idk where’s it’s at but my family never returned a Redbox rental copy of “The Nut Job” I forgot what it was about but it was some animated squirrel movie

[@jesusR-ze1ix]

A redbox near me still works. Should I go buy a movie? Renting ive read is a bad idea?

[@bsx121]

Redbox closing has me crying

[@DIoxide-ck8uy]

I still collect blurays and 4K blurays of movies and tv shows I really like.

[@petpetparkpreservationsociety]

based on the fact many drivers got stuck with tons of inventory and didn't get paid, i think you know why they are getting on ebay. From what understand its not an issue as clearly, they filed chapter 7 bankrupcy and theirs other youtube videos on the empoyee side of things here.

[@DVDSandwich]

When they had rental versions of dvds, they were mixing the extras that you get from buying it

[@blakekaveny]

We had a Redbox thing in my grocery store. In the 10 years it’s been their I’ve seen it used twice

[@niezyje8922]

i will never forget the feeling of having to return sonic colors for the wii back to red box

[@iPristine]

site is still up, the security certificate just expired so your connection is insecure on it

[@paulallen8495]

I'll just wait, until they take the Blockbuster Video route and end up on those red tables, at Dirt Cheap store locations. I have hundreds of those, many bought for as low as 5¢ or 10¢ each.

[@eelobrian6727]

I always thought redbox buffed the discs, because mine were always super clean.

[@JoseMedina-hs9st]

Yes that was a combination with Redbox that people would just print out the front cover of the game and put it inside the case and put it in the Box

[@YoungMrBlue]

There’s still Redbox kiosks at my local stores probably still charging money for stuff inside

[@bamafan9283]

We would rent games and movies on prepaid cards and keep them.

[@obrien6320]

So many stores have been left with the non functioning red boxes because they've just abandoned them.

[@rayphoenix7296]

I used to see these around all the time until around 2016. I have not seen any since.

[@nigelfreeman6192]

What’s is interesting about people still watching dvds? Although I have Netflix, paramount & prime I still buy DVDs and blu rays never really stopped.

[@illdourmum]

I’ve seen RedBox everywhere but never rented from them.

[@SamSitar]

i rented a few red box DVDs. for a while my employer had 1 red box. then they added another one. later we lost the second red box. now we have none.

[@leilanilogan40]

I'm confused. Why do you think they'd be scratched up? Do you think people don't know how to handle them?

[@reap_25]

Rental discs always get trashed. Blockbuster was the worst with that. It's like someone took sandpaper to them at times.

[@Scooter30FTW]

None of the machines have disappeared in my area, one inside a Walmart has signs on it that it's not in service,and it's unplugged. I'm afraid to try other kiosks to see if I can actually still rent from it,I kinda doubt it since I doubt the company can still verify cards to do payments.

[@jupreindeer]

I've stopped by three functional machines in the last few days. Bought a few things. So, someone's still taking payments. Or more likely something. But it does feel like an 'At your own risk' option to rent. Just in case you go to take it back and they are all out of order. Will they use that 'full price purchase' option in their contract? Maybe the core company is just a few servers and no people? Can't tell. I would have thought what remaining machines would have gone completely sales only... if anyone was still running the show.

[@AusomeAsherYT]

The redbox kiosk at my local Dollar general store that’s still there, and it isn’t unplugged!

[@jupreindeer]

It is heavily wired in, I bet. And I doubt the employees inside ever do a thing with them. Branches near me don't even do the minimal... with a broom or anything. They just look trashy.

[@bobneas974]

I've been renting and buying dvds right from the redbox and it's been giving me movies but not actually taking the money off my account it's very weird.

[@viper33802]

I am really interested in snagging one of these machines to tinker with. Seems like it could be quite interesting. Does anyone have any leads on acquiring one? I have started asking managers at local stores but most seem like they do not want to look into the situation.

[@FMCREPAIRARMAGH22]

And this is why piracy will always win once you download it no one can take it from you

[@dlarge6502]

You can be blocked from downloading. Tracked, disconnected and prosecuted.

[@FMCREPAIRARMAGH22]

@@dlarge6502 Lol only in the USA UK don't care they tried a copyright system and stopped it. Also always use a VPN if you are downloading. If companies stopped ripping people of by deleting paid content no one would pirate.

[@jerryg7391]

​@@dlarge6502 or like a guy I know whom phone was hacked because he downloaded un-copyright movies.

[@SonXo1]

there is still a redbox at my local store, as far as I know. I could walk down to the store lol and see.

[@blakekaveny]

You say it’s interesting that people are still watching dvds. But where I live literally no one watches blue ray.

[@goodxd701]

Last time i remember about redbox was back in 2009 and i completely forgot it existed

[@udance4ever]

digitize em all and put em on a NAS w Emby or Jellyfin!

[@amongoose1]

Awesome video!

[@Wii505]

A lot of the Kiosks are just abandoned and some are gone, but I don't Kown where to

[@BigHRepair]

Is redbox out of business? There's still one in my town functioning 😮

[@FezCaliph]

Last blu ray I bought was Thor Ragnarok in 2018 😅

[@Joel-nu1ed]

1:28 It’s cooler if there in the old Redbox case

[@koimillie]

Where do we buy? If there's any left lol

[@thatguydy5089]

There's a working redbox near me.

[@dennisthemenace3695]

Alot of the movies on my hard drive came from Redbox RIP

[@DavidTheAppleTechGuy]

Redbox is not dead. Still use it in my town

[@Ralph-r2i]

The Redbox at my Walgreens is still on and working as of today,,8/8/24

[@WoodStoveEnthusiast]

Now buy a Redbox kiosk!

[@redm00n748]

R.I.P Redbox

[@RandallStevenson]

I would love to get a Red box Kiosk full of movies.

[@VOLTRONDEFENDER4440]

oh so that's why the website was down

[@johnjones5354]

You lost all credibility with me when you described "Top Gun - Maverick" as a 'good movie'.

[@NotJSTN]

I rented cod ww2 and they did the same thing 😂😂

[@marccaselle8108]

Call of Duty Modern Toilet Seat

[@LocalTorchwoodIntern]

the only game I remember renting from Redbox was the Wii version of Sonic Colors XDD

[@Ares_0926]

The redbox at my local store is still in operation and I'm wondering who is getting the money

[@AppropriateusernameYOUTUBE]

Same I think it’s my local grocery store running it by themselves

[@freedom_rock18]

But do you get charged lol or can you even rent a movie is my question

[@Ares_0926]

Saw a guy return a movie yesterday so I assuming it's still running.

[@SylvesterAshcroft88]

That's a pretty good idea!

[@CodyCanon-l1n]

We have a red box here

[@williamknight6227]

where can i buy these dvds

[@BigDtheFreestyleMC]

Where do you go to buy this like this

[@awesomememzYT]

whatever you do, do not watch the emoji movie