We periodically rent movies from Red Box. Very convenient but once you get the movie home there's no cover to read to refresh your memory on the subject of the film, no cool artwork to admire. At the local rental place down the street they have the original covers on the shelf but once you rent, the disc is transferred to a plain red envelope.
Oh, while not having the cover is a minor inconvenience, what I really dislike is those disks that put the name of the movie in tiny, tiny little letters around the center of the disk. Have to get out my glasses to figure out which movie it is. It would be great if the publishers would always put some nice artwork on the disc and even add a small descriptive blurb on it -- for those instances when you don't have access to the original DVD covers.
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