Our grandchildren will find it hilarious that people, when they wanted to watch a movie at home, used to get in a “car” and drive to a “building” to rent a plastic “disc” that had to be “returned.”

也许多年后，我们的孙子孙女会觉得我们现在的生活是多么的滑稽：当我们想要在家看一部电影时，我们要先坐进一辆“车子”里，然后开到一幢“建筑”里，再租用一张塑料的“碟子”，最后还得将这张“碟子”“归还”。

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Consumers still use DVDs today, but in fewer and fewer homes because streaming by Amazon, Comcast, Hulu and Netflix is faster, cheaper and more convenient than going out to buy or rent a disc.

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To make matters better, Redbox lets you return to any of their kiosks anywhere. (Some frequent flyers actually use it to rent something for a flight.) The techie crowd reading this is saying: Yeah, yeah, so, the disc business is still dying.

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