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The local place in my small town had a curtained off porno section.
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Family Video announced today that they’re closing all of their locations. We still had two open in our city, I guess Redbox is now our sole physical media rental source.
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tonedef131 posted:Family Video announced today that they’re closing all of their locations. We still had two open in our city, I guess Redbox is now our sole physical media rental source. Well Netflix still has its disc service. Unless you meant physical physical media rental source, then yeah.
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Spatulater bro! posted:Well Netflix still has its disc service. Unless you meant physical physical media rental source, then yeah.
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tonedef131 posted:Does Netflix offer UHD discs through this service? I guess I kinda knew they still did this but I really don’t miss putting movies in a queue and wondering how many of my top picks weren’t available and what middle of the list movie would get mailed to me. I don't think they do UHD, no.
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Spacebump posted:Hastings was the best video rental chain imo. I will always have a special place in my heart for Hastings. The one in my hometown hung around for a while but finally closed down a few years ago and I still miss it. I drive past where it used to be all the time when I'm home. I spent pretty much every dollar of my allowance and first few jobs there.
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Vince MechMahon posted:The local place in my small town had a curtained off porno section. The curtained off porno section was always the best. We had a small mom and pop rental shop in the town I grew up in that was right next door to the laundromat. I would go over there to burn time during laundry and because the horror section was right next to do adult section and only covered by a loose curtain it was a peekorama as I pretended to look at the box form Pumpkinhead for the umpteenth time.
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dorium posted:The curtained off porno section was always the best. We had a small mom and pop rental shop in the town I grew up in that was right next door to the laundromat. I would go over there to burn time during laundry and because the horror section was right next to do adult section and only covered by a loose curtain it was a peekorama as I pretended to look at the box form Pumpkinhead for the umpteenth time. My hometown held a vote and decided not to have the Family Video porn room  No big loss, there's a couple other places to rent movies there. Not a rad little independent video store, but at least not RedBox only. It's a small town but made up almost entirely of boomers so there's definitely still a need for it. I'm excited for the world to open up again so I can go to the cool-rear end little microcinema near me with a rental store attached and a cool Polish dude who is eager to talk about cult movies with you. Unless it's a victim of quarantine, but I think the guy owns the building so fingers crossed. e: That motivated me to check in. Ended up contributing to the GoFundMe! feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Jan 7, 2021 |
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You will never get me to stop missing video stores. As lame as Blockbuster usually was there was one the town over from me that had a surprisingly hip selection of movies that no one else would have. This was pre-everything online and it was my go-to for anything weird, indie, foreign or weird foreign indie films. A lot of their inventory was poo poo that was out of print and difficult to see as well.
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Has anyone in this thread seen the last blockbuster documentary? If so, is it worth watching?
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CPL593H posted:You will never get me to stop missing video stores. As lame as Blockbuster usually was there was one the town over from me that had a surprisingly hip selection of movies that no one else would have. This was pre-everything online and it was my go-to for anything weird, indie, foreign or weird foreign indie films. A lot of their inventory was poo poo that was out of print and difficult to see as well. I miss Blockbuster and other video stores for the same reason I’ll eventually miss bookstores; I love just wandering through a store and happening upon some title I probably never would have encountered otherwise.
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There's no way video stores will ever come back but if Blockbuster went all in on some pop up shops with merch in the style of a Blockbuster store it would make bank. Like that Airbnb they did this year.
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They've been selling Blockbuster merch. I saw a jigsaw puzzle that came in a box made to look like a vhs tape box at Target last month.
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Jan 7, 2021 04:38
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blockbuster killed all the good mom n pops in my hometown , gently caress that noise
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One of my favorite memories of working at Blockbuster was having to order more and more copies of "Jerry Springer's Too Hot for TV!" because we could not keep those things on the shelf. We ended up with one whole wall segment with over a hundred copies of the Jerry Springer tapes for rent. We once had a employee from another location fill in for a shift, and he was absolutely dumb struck. His location didn't carry them at all, and no one ever asked for them.
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Origami Dali posted:blockbuster killed all the good mom n pops in my hometown , gently caress that noise I don't really miss Blockbuster except that cool one I was talking about. In the before time they didn't do much to hurt locally owned places where I live, and there were many.
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Blockbuster was pretty much the defacto prevalent chain by the time I was old enough to develop fond memories of running around a rental store looking at movies and taking some home. That said, I remember when grocery stores had movie and video game rental sections. I think that lasted up until the early 2000s. Crazy to think that something that used to take a chunk of real estate is now just a vending machine, or digital.
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Davros1 posted:One of my favorite memories of working at Blockbuster was having to order more and more copies of "Jerry Springer's Too Hot for TV!" because we could not keep those things on the shelf. I thought it was fascinating going to video stores not in your hometown. seeing the regional differences and even at a micro scale, neighborhood differences of the makeup of a video store. The laundromat video store was not our regular one (we used a hollywood video that was near the grocery store we shopped at and both those things were a 5 minute drive from the front door of my parents home to the door of the grocery store), but the laundromat video store was an additional 5 minutes away by car so we didnt use that one as often. Totally different selections between the two. the hollywood video was in the "nicer" part of town (but not the nicest part of town where the blockbuster was) and the mom and pop shop was across the street from the smaller, not tracked housing style suburbs with the nearby trailer park. You got a very strange melange of tastes and choices from all three. it was in interesting dichotomy growing up and seeing those distinctions.
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Detective No. 27 posted:That said, I remember when grocery stores had movie and video game rental sections. I think that lasted up until the early 2000s. Crazy to think that something that used to take a chunk of real estate is now just a vending machine, or digital. That’s actually how my parents met. My mom worked in the movie rental section, my dad worked in inventory and stocking but watched a lot of movies, he used his discount on rentals, one of them asked the other out after about a dozen times of him renting tapes and talking movies almost specifically just to see her, and like a year later they were married and I was a fetus. When I was thirty or thereabouts they gave me a long box that turned out to be filled with about a hundred VHS promo posters that went from the time period they were dating up to until my mom left to be a phone operator. Most of it was poo poo I had never heard of.
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One thing I won't miss about video stores, all the latest hit releases being out of stock for weeks if not months. Why get Jurassic Park when you can get The Beverly Hillbillies... again.
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Detective No. 27 posted:Blockbuster was pretty much the defacto prevalent chain by the time I was old enough to develop fond memories of running around a rental store looking at movies and taking some home. My local Drug Mart (a general store of sorts, based out of Cleveland, I think), still has a video rental section. I was really tempted to buy a used copy of Prometheus from them, but decided against it. Despite it being the nearest "grocery store" to me, I'm usually only there because I need something very basic and very quick. It's does have a great beer selection though.
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The thing with video rental places is that there was a time when a hit movie on VHS was considered like a luxury item. Even if you had the player, not everyone could justify spending like $60-$80 for the goddamn tapes, and of course with no streaming if your parents said "hey I'll take you to Blockbuster to rent a few movies this weekend", that was like a BIG deal. The idea of browsing hundreds of movies and actually getting to choose the exact one you want to see instead of having to wait for something good to air on t.v. was a BIG deal.
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  Severin already has the pre-order up. Street date 4/27.
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caligulamprey posted:
I wish I liked this movie a bit more than I do and didn't already own it on BD, because that set is gorgeous.
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Nihonniboku posted:One thing I won't miss about video stores, all the latest hit releases being out of stock for weeks if not months. Why get Jurassic Park when you can get The Beverly Hillbillies... again. I remember when Titanic was coming out on VHS (2 tapes!) and there 1) being multiple sections of the wall just for Titanic and 2) You could reserve your rental.
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doomisland posted:I remember when Titanic was coming out on VHS (2 tapes!) and there 1) being multiple sections of the wall just for Titanic and 2) You could reserve your rental. At some point the business became completely focused on new releases, and almost every new release started to get the Titanic treatment. Entire walls of Steven Seagal movies as far as the eye can see. For most of the time I actually worked at Blockbuster you couldn't really depend on it anymore for older stuff, because the policy was basically that nothing ever got replaced. So if someone rented out the one copy of The Mangler or whatever, and scratched it, well that's it for being able to ever rent The Mangler again. Over time the non-new release sections became almost empty just from attrition and never replacing anything.
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The other weird thing about Blockbuster is they went through a phase where they tried to become a "one-stop" shop for media stuff and tried to carry books and electronics. The problem was they didn't have the infrastructure or the overhead to be competitive with that stuff, so you would go in and find a way out-of-date TV being sold for MSRP. I think that all happened because the 7-11 guy became the CEO and tried to diversify what the store carried.
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caligulamprey posted:
welp, pre-ordered the gently caress out of that
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Basebf555 posted:The thing with video rental places is that there was a time when a hit movie on VHS was considered like a luxury item. Even if you had the player, not everyone could justify spending like $60-$80 for the goddamn tapes, and of course with no streaming if your parents said "hey I'll take you to Blockbuster to rent a few movies this weekend", that was like a BIG deal. The idea of browsing hundreds of movies and actually getting to choose the exact one you want to see instead of having to wait for something good to air on t.v. was a BIG deal. Well the price of those tapes was because VHS was priced to rent. The idea was that rental shops would buy the tape at 60-80 bucks, and then they rent it out. After a while, consumers could buy a version that was priced to own. If you look at early laserdisc prices, they were far more affordable. Too bad the real draw of home video was the ability to record. It really took a while for tape ownership to take off. Top Gun actually was the first VHS tape that was originally released at an affordable price from the outset for a major new release.
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Cemetry Gator posted:Well the price of those tapes was because VHS was priced to rent. The idea was that rental shops would buy the tape at 60-80 bucks, and then they rent it out. After a while, consumers could buy a version that was priced to own. The tapes were definitely available to buy for the public though, at the $60-80 price. So people who had that disposable income could buy Ghostbusters for 79.99, it's not like they had to wait a period of time for it to be sold to the public. The price fluctuated a lot in those early days, around the same time that Ghostbusters came out on VHS there were other movies that were priced closer to $20 because that's just what they thought people would pay for Movie X versus Ghostbusters which was a monster hit.
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Cemetry Gator posted:Well the price of those tapes was because VHS was priced to rent. The idea was that rental shops would buy the tape at 60-80 bucks, and then they rent it out. After a while, consumers could buy a version that was priced to own. Yep, VHS was originally marketed/embraced as a way to record TV, not to purchase pre-recorded content. That came later. VHS won the format war simply because everyone already owned a VCR.
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This very pretty Dredd 4K is up for preorder at BB https://www.bestbuy.com/site/dredd-steelbook-includes-digital-copy-4k-ultra-hd-blu-ray-blu-ray-2012/6447720.p?skuId=6447720
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Tim Whatley posted:This very pretty Dredd 4K is up for preorder at BB I already have the old Blu-Ray from forever ago, but would Dredd benefit from a 4k/HDR upgrade?
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Iron Crowned posted:I already have the old Blu-Ray from forever ago, but would Dredd benefit from a 4k/HDR upgrade? Yea it does. Not like, a complete game changer or anything but certainly you get some nice boosts from the HDR. The Slow-Mo scenes obviously being the main example. Not sure it's worth $20, considering how cheap the other options are(I bought it in 4k on VUDU because it was like $5), but that steelbook is really cool looking.
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Cemetry Gator posted:Well the price of those tapes was because VHS was priced to rent. The idea was that rental shops would buy the tape at 60-80 bucks, and then they rent it out. After a while, consumers could buy a version that was priced to own. Priced to rental was part of it, but I also think early on the tapes were kind of expensive to make, because of all the moving parts versus a disc. Even the cheap non-studio releases might be about $40. Rental pricing grew out of that, I think, then stuck around. Even through the late 90s some movies (often the not-big releases) would be priced for rental first and then have a sell-through version later.
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Tim Whatley posted:This very pretty Dredd 4K is up for preorder at BB I just picked up the 4K awhile back come onnnn. And it looks so nice but it’s unreasonable to replace. That being said, I think I’m gonna watch it again in the next week.
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Tim Whatley posted:This very pretty Dredd 4K is up for preorder at BB
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Rageaholic posted:Ordered it for whenever I get a PS5, bringing my total of UHDs up to 3: Dredd, Mad Max Fury Road and Spider-Verse. Shame about Fury Road, it's one of the few UHDs where I actually do prefer the regular blu ray. The UHD is good for the most part but for such an immersive film it's unfortunate that the CG flames are so distracting. All of the fire and explosions in the movie are more convincing on the regular blu ray. But it was Fury Road so like you I had to get that UHD and see it for myself.
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