We truly live in a dark time of home video. I miss premium releases with tonnes of bonus features and rare material (think Disney's Platinum Editions or the Walt Disney Treasures line), or just massive sets of all the obscure old movies a company had lying around. Whereas I previously paid about $20CAD for a DVD box set of 12 Universal 1950's sci-fi movies, today I can pay $40 CAD for just ONE of the same films in a practically bare-bones Blu-Ray.
I remember a time, very early 1980's, when the small but packed video store in North Knoxville, TN (Merchants Road in the little strip mall next to the Subway right after crossing Clinton Hwy) had not only big but little tapes on shelves for rental (VHS and Beta) but also an odd thing called CED briefly which was a video disc but played like a record with a stylus instead of a laser.
I still have fond memories of a franchised Hollywood Video store in West Phoenix (I think it was on Indian School Rd) that I frequented in college during the 90s. They had a great backroom of course, but the entire back wall of the store was pure 70s/80s cult and exploitation films. Good times. 🤘
As someone born in mid-1997, I'm presumably not the youngest person to remember video rental stores, even though most of what I do remember is of Blockbuster. I honestly don't ever remember seeing a Hollywood Video where I lived in southeastern New York (but not technically in New York City), and only learned of its existence in late 2012. Two years after its closure. The nearest Blockbuster location to ourselves closed in April of 2011, with the last item we purchased from it being a pre-viewed copy of the film "Once" (2007). Today, this former location is occupied by a pet supplies store. But even for the year after that particular physical store's closure, I continued to rent games through their e-commerce until the same time of year in 2012. I do still own a decent collection of physical media today, with some films actually being ex-rentals or reproduction copies from Blockbuster. Though we own relatively few in the way of "Collector's editions" of films overall. But funny enough at 2:35, while it was first released on home video between two tapes in the United States, in other markets-such as Australia, it was strangely released entirely on one.
The Blockbuster will never die as such, it left its descendants, to continue with its legacy, the Blockbuster lasted many years but its legacy will never die 😊
I loved working at Blockbuster, it was a fun time
We truly live in a dark time of home video. I miss premium releases with tonnes of bonus features and rare material (think Disney's Platinum Editions or the Walt Disney Treasures line), or just massive sets of all the obscure old movies a company had lying around. Whereas I previously paid about $20CAD for a DVD box set of 12 Universal 1950's sci-fi movies, today I can pay $40 CAD for just ONE of the same films in a practically bare-bones Blu-Ray.
Physical collections are the best!
I remember a time, very early 1980's, when the small but packed video store in North Knoxville, TN (Merchants Road in the little strip mall next to the Subway right after crossing Clinton Hwy) had not only big but little tapes on shelves for rental (VHS and Beta) but also an odd thing called CED briefly which was a video disc but played like a record with a stylus instead of a laser.
I still have fond memories of a franchised Hollywood Video store in West Phoenix (I think it was on Indian School Rd) that I frequented in college during the 90s. They had a great backroom of course, but the entire back wall of the store was pure 70s/80s cult and exploitation films. Good times. 🤘
As someone born in mid-1997, I'm presumably not the youngest person to remember video rental stores, even though most of what I do remember is of Blockbuster. I honestly don't ever remember seeing a Hollywood Video where I lived in southeastern New York (but not technically in New York City), and only learned of its existence in late 2012. Two years after its closure. The nearest Blockbuster location to ourselves closed in April of 2011, with the last item we purchased from it being a pre-viewed copy of the film "Once" (2007). Today, this former location is occupied by a pet supplies store. But even for the year after that particular physical store's closure, I continued to rent games through their e-commerce until the same time of year in 2012. I do still own a decent collection of physical media today, with some films actually being ex-rentals or reproduction copies from Blockbuster. Though we own relatively few in the way of "Collector's editions" of films overall. But funny enough at 2:35, while it was first released on home video between two tapes in the United States, in other markets-such as Australia, it was strangely released entirely on one.
The Blockbuster will never die as such, it left its descendants, to continue with its legacy, the Blockbuster lasted many years but its legacy will never die 😊
THE COLLAPSE OF CABLE SATELITE WITH FREE ROKU TV !!!!!!!!!! LOLOL FUN FREE TIMES AHEAD !
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