Despite late financial aid and a lack of campus jobs, students are still able to scrounge up the dollar or two needed to rent a movie from the “Redbox”. The “Redbox” seen by students at the University of Houston, has finally made it to Prairie View A&M University’s MSC and to the Hempstead McDonald’s.
“The Redbox DVD rental is great. It is going to put Blockbuster and other movie rental companies out of business,” says junior architecture major LaSean Davis. Various new releases from Constantine to the new hit comedy Beauty Shop are available for rent.
Students can rent new releases from the MSC location for $2 and at the McDonalds location for $1. Because the rental machines are a relatively new development in DVD rental technology, there are bound to be a few minor discrepancies.
CEO of Urban Nites Entertainment Joseph Willis, says, “I had trouble returning the DVD at McDonald’s, but the DVDs were really cheap.”
Junior biology major James Buckner says that the rental machines fail to adequately inform the users on the exact return location.
“When my friend tried to return the DVDs he rented at McDonald’s to the Redbox machine in the MSC, the machine would not accept them,” says Buckner. Upon renting the DVD a screen pops up informing the renter that the DVDs can be returned to any Redbox machine.