Subj : Video rental store to shut its doors after 40 years in business
To : Nightfox
From : MRO
Date : Mon Apr 01 2024 10:21 pm
Re: Video rental store to shut its doors after 40 years in business
By: Nightfox to MRO on Mon Apr 01 2024 04:50 pm
> I think there are a lot of people with a collection of movies & such on old
> formats that they don't want to replace (due to what it would cost, or just
> not wanting to bother). And for people who still use physical media, I've
> been hearing that DVDs are still selling more than newer formats such as
> blu-ray (and 4K blu-ray) because there are a lot of people who just have DVD
> players and/or don't care about updating to something newer, or don't
> understand what advantage blu-ray offers over DVD.
Well eventually nobody will be buying physical media. It's so much easier to go get it via a streaming service. People are getting past the phase of owning something that will just take up space.
