Physical Video Rental

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[MUD03]

We have a local franchise that still has both it's locations open in my town. One weekend, just for nostalgia's sake, me and my wife took our kid to the same one we used to go to growing up. It was even more full of people than when I used to go and they had all the new releases still. 

[Conan1600]

On 4/21/2017 at 11:42 PM, yathis said:

Saw one today, immigrant corner convenience store, 1/3 to 1/4 of the floor space dedicated to what looked like bluray. Its in a middle-to-high income neighborhood, but on the outskirts of town with a lot of ranch houses and ranches nearby, also horses lots and lots of cow-boy/girls around.

 

I have never seen one in this day in age. Never.

 

Have any of you seen any?

WTH. Go out of my house to rent a movie? Or anything else for that matter? i grocery shop online! I found my Fiancee online! I order takeout food to be delivered online! I sell my wares online!

Seriously i am old enough to have seen many rental shops lol. In fact the rentals shops had VCR and even a few beta in my day  

[Kobathor]

Around Dallas we have "Family Video," and it's in some other states, too. Nice store. They rent movies, kids movies for free (yes, free!,) video games, everything.

[handymanshandle]

I have a PS4 which I can use as a blu-ray player. I guess it kinda sucks that movie rental places dont really exist anymore. But I suppose if I cant find it on netflix, I can maybe find it on Google play and if I cant find it on Google play, maybe it'd be on amazon or something. But in that case I doubt it'd be at a movie rental place either.

[dalekphalm]

4 minutes ago, wcreek said:

I have a PS4 which I can use as a blu-ray player. I guess it kinda sucks that movie rental places dont really exist anymore. But I suppose if I cant find it on netflix, I can maybe find it on Google play and if I cant find it on Google play, maybe it'd be on amazon or something. But in that case I doubt it'd be at a movie rental place either.

Pretty much most popular (not obscure or really old) movies are gonna be on Amazon, Google/YouTube, or iTunes.

 

With that in mind, as I mentioned to another user, check your local Library... you might be surprised at their collection (though probably little or no Blu-Ray).

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3 minutes ago, dalekphalm said:

Pretty much most popular (not obscure or really old) movies are gonna be on Amazon, Google/YouTube, or iTunes.

 

With that in mind, as I mentioned to another user, check your local Library... you might be surprised at their collection (though probably little or no Blu-Ray).

Really old movies, like 50s movies that may have been minor or not huge successes will likely be hard to find in stores and online, probably easier online tbh.

 

Netflix for the most part I noticed, doesn't really keep older movies available for streaming all the time. They sometimes rotate. Kinda interesting, kinda sad the format is sort of dying. Between the fact that the content just isnt as good but the trend towards shorter and shorter duration.

[handymanshandle]

6 hours ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

Redbox machines are at both the Publix and Walmart close by me. 

Actual rental stores though, no. 

Fun fact, my store doesnt have a redbox. Has this instaflix shit, always broken af and like idk why we dont just have a redbox. 

 

Also a lot of our customers use TCF and we dont have a TCF atm just some sort of "generic" atm. I use a different bank, but still. 

[Misanthrope]

Over here most of them turned into a smaller, shittier version of gamestop. 

[yathis]

Game rental I'd do because they are so damn expensive. Then I'd learn how to pirate it for my own interests.

[dalekphalm]

On 23/04/2017 at 5:27 PM, wcreek said:

Really old movies, like 50s movies that may have been minor or not huge successes will likely be hard to find in stores and online, probably easier online tbh.

 

Netflix for the most part I noticed, doesn't really keep older movies available for streaming all the time. They sometimes rotate. Kinda interesting, kinda sad the format is sort of dying. Between the fact that the content just isnt as good but the trend towards shorter and shorter duration.

Netflix rotates their collections frequently. Older titles (And by "older", I mean like 50's, 60's, 70's) don't make Netflix a lot of money, and still take up the same amount of bandwidth as a newer title (depending on specific compression, etc).

 

They even cycle out newer movies frequently too. It has a lot to do with Studio Licensing Deals, too, and not just their preference for constantly new and changing content.

[This_guy1998]

We still have one in my town of 10,000 people (used to have 3 at one point) they closed their 2nd location and then later moved onto a side road probably because rent is cheaper. Haven't been in their "new" location yet even though they moved a few years back.