A final nail in the coffin of the DVD rental store?

There’s one outside Supabarn Wanniassa, I still prefer to go and hire at the video shop, believe it or not there’s still some video shop peeps that are helpful and also recommend some good stuff.
I also gotta justify buying a blu-ray player.

Big deal. Still the hassle of pickup and return. When will the movie studios wake up to how much money they will make with web downloads.

If this works in a similar way to an RFID chip then it is open for theft.

gospeedygo said :

Praise the lord for Channel BT.

Hallelujah! =)

Praise the lord for Channel BT.

Pommy bastard said :

It would only make a difference if there were ever anything worth watching released any more. Seeing as there isn’t, it’s a moot point.

+1

… there certainly isn’t much in the average video shop these days that a grown adult would want to watch … different story for kids (although people seem to be kids up to the age of about 35 nowadays).

I was boggled that they rented each disc from a tv show separately! It is cheaper to go buy it from JB Hifi.

And on the off chance you are thinking of renting a TV show from the video store (say, for example, you’ve reached your monthly download limit and been shaped…), you have to ring and see if they have it in store, because they don’t have any sort on online database system, something public libraries figured out ten years ago. And when you ring, they say they don’t have it because the teen aged staff member can’t spell to type it into the ‘puter.

Might be time to give the broker a call to offload those Video Ezy shares I so heavily invested in back when Bob Turner was doing their ads.

It would only make a difference if there were ever anything worth watching released any more. Seeing as there isn’t, it’s a moot point.

There’s one in Erindale, another outside the Supabarn in Civic. I actually went into a video store the other day and was boggled by how far behind they are in terms of new releases and TV (yay US iTunes account). Video rental stores (and even Australian cinemas) are becoming increasingly irrelevant when you can get stuff on DVD/Blu-ray from the US while it’s still on the big screen here.