I drove by our neighborhood Hollywood Video this week to see a big "going out of business" sign on the lawn. I stopped in and bought a few movies for about seven dollars a piece. I don't frequent that particular store too often, but I was sad to see it going. Shortly thereafter I drove about three miles away to my favorite fabric store only to see the video store next door to them gone. There was a sign out front that said, "thanks for 21 wonderful years." What is happening to the video stores?
I would think with all the home movie theaters, big screen TV's, projection TV's that video stores would be thriving. I heard on our radio local movie show that across the country video stores are going out of business by the truckload. They blame Redbox and Netflix for the demise. I can see the difference that Netflix would make but the Redboxes offer so few movies, it is hard to imagine that they are having such a serious impact on video rentals.
The Redbox by us only seems to have horror movies and just a smattering of new releases. But on the other hand Netflix has an endless variety from documentaries, to mini-series, to oldies to foreign films. You can rent African movies, Chinese Movies, Spanish Movies, Bollywood Movies all from the comfort of your front porch. It is too bad, I hate to see so many business suffer and go out of business after so many years. Especially the small family owned businesses.
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