Forum - View topicNEWS: Blockbuster to Shut Last U.S. Video Rental Stores, DVD-by-Mail
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Animeking1108
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Good riddance. Blockbuster's online service was shit. They never had enough copies of movies. You would wait months for a new release, and just give up hope on getting any video games that were on "Long Wait." My BB list has thirty movies on it, and more than half of them are on wait.
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v1cious
 Posts: 6202 Location: Houston, TX |
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"Oh I get it! video stores are so old they have ghosts in them!" |
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hojo 360
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Blockbuster was still around?? jeez were have i been anyway i need to find one and rent out a bunch of crap and keep em
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enurtsol
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We used to have 2 big ones within 2 minutes of each other! With different schoolmates working part-time in and out, we could always get free rentals. And boy, was that a savior those pre-broadband times during family/relatives/friends gatherings late at night with nothing to do! Once we even did our Spanish class video project in one - we were acting stupid but en espanol.
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WeirDiE_InC
 Posts: 414 Location: The GVRD |
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Didn't even realize Blockbuster still existed. Video rental stores have practically been extinct here for past few years.
Anyways, so long as public libraries keep carrying DVDs and Blurays, things'll be just fine. |
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revolutionotaku
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The Mormon-based DVD rental chain "CleanFlicks" in Utah was forced to shut down for violating federal copyright laws. |
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Revolutionary
 Posts: 601 Location: Too Far South |
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We actually have a chain of video/game rentals that has survived where I live - Family Video. Technically, the chain started up (or at least came here, I don't know if it's a national chain or not) after our local Blockbusters had closed.
I want to say that I'm sad, because I used to rent video games from Blockbuster all of the time. However, I don't really even have much of a want to rent video games anymore, so I suppose those times have passed in my life. |
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FenixFiesta
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Took long enough for the place to finally die off...
Blockbuster was fine when the physical media for movies was Tape, once Netflix began showing off the concept that literally you could rent by using the National postal service, it was the beginning of the end for BB because they were simply WAY too slow to catch up with the concept of modern media viewing at every turn after even though they had the capital to restructure and catch up, if not be ahead of the game, years ago. |
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mdo7
 Posts: 6253 Location: Katy, Texas, USA |
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Sad to hear, had great memories of renting games and movie from Blockbuster. Sad to see the rest of the stores closing down.
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Chrno2
 Posts: 6171 Location: USA |
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Wow, I didn't know there were still any left. Man I remember when we had one across the street from my job. I used to rent some Megaman X games from them. There were still some in Manhattan but I think they all but shut down.
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RichardFromMarple
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In the UK Blockbuster seemed to buy a few video rental chains, which earlier on had bought up some independent shops.
I never really used my local one, but my parents did before they got cable. Mostly I used to look through the bargin bin for any ex-rental tapes worth getting. I used to rent from my local library occasionally. Eventually I stopped doing that as I was too busy with college work to find time to watch videos. When DVDs came along they prices seemed to drop low after a few years so it was as cheap to buy one as rent. |
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Greed1914
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I was hoping someone else was thinking of this. |
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DTJB
 Posts: 671 Location: Dubuque, IA |
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The door is finally closed, there goes another part of my childhood.
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