A DVD rental place that rents out DVD's for $1/day or $0.10/hour. New Releases are $1.50/day or $0.15/hour. Blu-rays are $2/day or $0.20/hour. Accounts would require a credit card to be opened and kept on file. Accounts would work on a cashless, deduction-based system. Account users would spend $20 up-front, and their account would be deducted as they rent. Receipts would print time stamps of when something was rented and outstanding balances.
We would need a system that automatically checks in DVD's as they are placed through the slot. Cameras would record people as they check in DVD's, too. A screen would read back to the person checking in the DVD that the DVD has been received and they have been deducted whatever amount of money from their account. If the system ever messes up, there is a backup video of the person dropping off the DVD.
Perhaps there would be a way for the check-in system to automatically alphabetize the movies. Maybe a two-layer system where, on the top row, would be all the rentable DVD's (which would be in custom cases like the Redbox DVD's). On the bottom row would be all the cases of currently-out DVD's. When a DVD is returned, it kicks out the case, and the employees can put them back on the wall.
There would need to be a back-up if the system failed.
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