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NEWS: 74 Tsutaya Retail Chain Stores to End Video Rental Business by October 2023




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mewpudding101
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2022 8:35 am Reply with quote
Makes sense.
Everyone just uses streaming services these days.
And while it’s great to rent music CDs
Everyone just copies them to their computers anyway…
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Beatdigga



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2022 9:07 am Reply with quote
Physical media continues to wind down its operations and become a niche product in the vein of vinyl, but I think what makes it notable is that Japan was one of the last holdouts until a few years ago.
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PonSquared



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2022 10:01 am Reply with quote
Thanks for the article.

I remember the days pawing though their shelves looking for movies dubbed into English.
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Tenchi



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 08, 2022 3:56 am Reply with quote
Does that one franchise owner own all of the Tsutaya stores in Tokyo or just some of them? Obviously, 74 is a lot of stores but Tokyo is a very, very big city.

I wouldn't be surprised if Tsutaya ceases rental operations in the big cities first but hangs on for several years longer in the rural areas, especially in the mountains, where the Internet might still not have sufficient bandwidth for streaming.

Then again, I live in a reasonably large North American city and I have reasonably fast Internet and I would still rent movies and games from Blockbuster were that still a thing that existed outside of that one location in Oregon since I am a physical media die-hard.
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SpiritSmoocher



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 08, 2022 5:01 pm Reply with quote
It is even easier for Japanese to stream since Netflix has like almost all the anime, while in the west it's a bidding war between Sony, Netflix, Sentai. They should probably start cutting disc prices since they are absurdly high for anime.
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