Cheap DVD Rentals - Movies For the Low Tech
Terminology such as quad-core processor, 1333MHz SDRAM, and DVI, HDMI, VGA is alien to many video viewers today.
They don't own the latest, fastest, or slickest computer on the market.
Some of them live in areas where broadband is the description of the contrasting belt of material around the crown of their hat.
Needless to say, the opportunity to download unlimited movies has not quite reached them.
However, there still is a source for cheap DVD rentals in many of those areas.
Cheap DVD rentals are one reason for being of Redbox, a company that specializes in renting DVDs by way of self-service kiosks.
The company touted at the end of 2009 more than 22,000 kiosks throughout the United States.
Redbox method of DVD rental is simplistic.
The customer arrives at the big red kiosk and begins to interface with the machine through the use of its touch-sensitive display screen.
There are approximately two hundred titles loaded into the average kiosk with a supply of six hundred DVDs available for rent.
The company updates the supply each week.
When the customer makes his choice and pays the fee of only $1.
00 plus any sales tax depending upon the location, the robotic array system passes the chosen DVD in its plastic case to the customer.
The customer can take the video home, watch it as many times as he likes, and return it the next day.
Every twenty-four hours a late charge is added to the customer's account until the DVD rental is returned or until twenty-five days have passed.
At that point, the customer owns the DVD and the total accrued amount of late charges are billed to the customer's debit or credit card.
Imagine, a DVD rental for only $1.
00.
In recent months Redbox has also given customers the opportunity to make their selections and to reserve their choices online.
Once the transaction is complete the customer can go to the nearest kiosk and retrieve the video.
When the customer finishes viewing the video, he places it in the plastic case with the correct UPC symbol attached and returns the case and video to the kiosk.
The customer then is ready to rent another video.
Another source for cheap DVDs is Columbia House DVD Club.
This is a vendor of DVDs more than a rental, but it is worth a look at such low introductory prices.
It is the largest direct marketer of DVDs in the U.
S.
and Canada with more than 8,500 titles available.
To join the club you pick out three DVDs for $1.
00 each plus shipping, processing, and applicable sales taxes depending on the customer's location.
The new Club member then is requested to purchase just three more movies within the next year for regular Club prices.
In some locations, independent DVD rental stores offer equally low rental rates in order to compete with the large conglomerates like BlockBuster and Netflix.
But all in all, while they still are in business, cheap DVD rentals can still be a deal.
They don't own the latest, fastest, or slickest computer on the market.
Some of them live in areas where broadband is the description of the contrasting belt of material around the crown of their hat.
Needless to say, the opportunity to download unlimited movies has not quite reached them.
However, there still is a source for cheap DVD rentals in many of those areas.
Cheap DVD rentals are one reason for being of Redbox, a company that specializes in renting DVDs by way of self-service kiosks.
The company touted at the end of 2009 more than 22,000 kiosks throughout the United States.
Redbox method of DVD rental is simplistic.
The customer arrives at the big red kiosk and begins to interface with the machine through the use of its touch-sensitive display screen.
There are approximately two hundred titles loaded into the average kiosk with a supply of six hundred DVDs available for rent.
The company updates the supply each week.
When the customer makes his choice and pays the fee of only $1.
00 plus any sales tax depending upon the location, the robotic array system passes the chosen DVD in its plastic case to the customer.
The customer can take the video home, watch it as many times as he likes, and return it the next day.
Every twenty-four hours a late charge is added to the customer's account until the DVD rental is returned or until twenty-five days have passed.
At that point, the customer owns the DVD and the total accrued amount of late charges are billed to the customer's debit or credit card.
Imagine, a DVD rental for only $1.
00.
In recent months Redbox has also given customers the opportunity to make their selections and to reserve their choices online.
Once the transaction is complete the customer can go to the nearest kiosk and retrieve the video.
When the customer finishes viewing the video, he places it in the plastic case with the correct UPC symbol attached and returns the case and video to the kiosk.
The customer then is ready to rent another video.
Another source for cheap DVDs is Columbia House DVD Club.
This is a vendor of DVDs more than a rental, but it is worth a look at such low introductory prices.
It is the largest direct marketer of DVDs in the U.
S.
and Canada with more than 8,500 titles available.
To join the club you pick out three DVDs for $1.
00 each plus shipping, processing, and applicable sales taxes depending on the customer's location.
The new Club member then is requested to purchase just three more movies within the next year for regular Club prices.
In some locations, independent DVD rental stores offer equally low rental rates in order to compete with the large conglomerates like BlockBuster and Netflix.
But all in all, while they still are in business, cheap DVD rentals can still be a deal.
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