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Re: Videostores are a dying breed said by maartena:Both the Blockbuster and Hollywood Video in my area have closed. Many of my friends have Netflix. Those that do not, use the Video-On-Demand system from the cable company a lot. And seriously, who wants to hassle with actually going to the store, and having to bring the disk back eventually, when you can just pick up the remote and rent brand new movies for the same price? Hollywood Video never got into the online game (or if they did, they didn't market it very well because I don't know it), so they are pretty much going bust.... not yet, but they will be. Bottom line is this: If you continue with a physical disk rental system as your primary product, you will eventually be put out of business. I'm sure there is still plenty of small towns with 1.5 Mbps DSL the maximum where streaming isn't an option and a local blockbuster will still thrive for many years to come, but even in those little towns netflix can deliver by mail, and the local cable company will have on-demand selections or have them soon. The higher end of movie rentals have moved online. And the lower end for DVD rentals have shifted to kiosks in supermarkets where the rental is $1. Blockbuster has been squeezed from both ends. They will just go the way of the local grocery stores - killed off by bigger competitors and specialty stores. And most DVDs can be bought at Walmart a year after they are out at a cost less than Blockbuster rents them for. | |
 sivranBack to Opera againPremium
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| Wait, bought at walmart for less than the rental price at Blockbuster?
I haven't been into a Blockbuster in a long time, and they've always been overpriced, but that MUST be some exaggeration.....right? 
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| said by sivran:Wait, bought at walmart for less than the rental price at Blockbuster? I haven't been into a Blockbuster in a long time, and they've always been overpriced, but that MUST be some exaggeration.....right? Even if that isn't the case.... I have seen brand new movies for sale at Walmart for about $15, and lesser known ones for $12, $10.
Last time I actually went and rented movies, I paid about $4 per movie if I recall correctly.
So even though it may be a slight overstatement, it's almost better to BUY the movie for about twice the rental amount, get a brand new disc, you get to keep it as long as you like, plus you can actually sell it again in the 2nd hand market if you really want to get rid of it. Plus you support the movie industry that way. 
And sure piracy has a LOT to do with the Videostore's demise.... after all I can understand why you would want to see a movie on the big screen with all the THX sound effects and what not..... but downloaded DVD's are virtually the same thing, only free.
iTunes understands it.
Netflix understands it.
If you don't keep moving along with the market, you become a relic. Just like Novell Netware, which once ran on 90% of servers, and now hardly anyone knows about it.
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