Movie Rental

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Use to have about a dozen places in town, now down to just one, but seems recently, not even any good movies to rent. Trend now is to download movies, see lots of places on the net. Told my wife, we can huddle around her laptop, that would be the easiest, but she likes our ten foot screen. This would mean getting yet another computer with a video output and an adapter, putting that in our home theater room, running an internet cable, and maybe even waiting half a day to download a movie.

We did cancel all of our so-called premium cable channels, show the same movies again and again for six months in a roll. To watch the comedy specials, need a vomit bag handy for the subjects they discuss that are suppose to be funny. Could read a book, that is what we use to do.

Is this just us?

qwe dropped TV altogether. 500 channels and nothing on. I do miss Mythbusters though. We atch all we want on the internet and get free videos form one of any number of libraires.

Video stores will be a thing of the past...don't lament them too much. If you remember when they opened, mid 80s, they were charging outrageous membership fees and basically running it up our @sses any way they could. Their time has come and gone, this is technological progress, it is so fast one can barely make a business in it. In twenty years the video store came and wnet like a skyrocket. The same will happen with Netflix unless they stay ahead of the crowd.

The problem always is the lack of vision in business people. The railroads decided they were in the railroad business when actually they were in the transportation business. We SHOULD have New York Central and Santa Fe Airlines...but we don't. The most powerful men in the world at the time decided they were railroad men and two bit entrepenuers put them out of business 20 years later.

Blockbuster has at least treid to keep up and decide they are in the entertainment business, rather than video disc rentals.

[rebeccajo 14]

Use to have about a dozen places in town, now down to just one, but seems recently, not even any good movies to rent. Trend now is to download movies, see lots of places on the net. Told my wife, we can huddle around her laptop, that would be the easiest, but she likes our ten foot screen. This would mean getting yet another computer with a video output and an adapter, putting that in our home theater room, running an internet cable, and maybe even waiting half a day to download a movie.

We did cancel all of our so-called premium cable channels, show the same movies again and again for six months in a roll. To watch the comedy specials, need a vomit bag handy for the subjects they discuss that are suppose to be funny. Could read a book, that is what we use to do.

Is this just us?

qwe dropped TV altogether. 500 channels and nothing on. I do miss Mythbusters though. We atch all we want on the internet and get free videos form one of any number of libraires.

Video stores will be a thing of the past...don't lament them too much. If you remember when they opened, mid 80s, they were charging outrageous membership fees and basically running it up our @sses any way they could. Their time has come and gone, this is technological progress, it is so fast one can barely make a business in it. In twenty years the video store came and wnet like a skyrocket. The same will happen with Netflix unless they stay ahead of the crowd.

The problem always is the lack of vision in business people. The railroads decided they were in the railroad business when actually they were in the transportation business. We SHOULD have New York Central and Santa Fe Airlines...but we don't. The most powerful men in the world at the time decided they were railroad men and two bit entrepenuers put them out of business 20 years later.

Blockbuster has at least treid to keep up and decide they are in the entertainment business, rather than video disc rentals.

Is there anything you don't run your mouth about?

[scandal 951]

If you remember when they opened, mid 80s, they were charging outrageous membership fees

The most powerful men in the world at the time decided they were railroad men and two bit entrepenuers put them out of business 20 years later.

Is there anything you don't run your mouth about?

Well, he's a self-proclaimed expert. The very best kind of expert, didn't you know? We should just be greatful for his incredible insights and witticisms.

1. Video rental outlets were already a thriving cottage industry in the late 70s - the first VCRs were on the market by about 1976 or so.

2. I had simply NO IDEA that the railroads were "out of business" with the advent of the commercial airlines. While commercial air travel began in the 1920s, rail travel was still the primary form of transcontinental transportation well into the 1950s. And to suggest that simply because they were both transportation companies, and thus railroads could trivially transform themselves into airlines is so laughable that it seriously calls into question whether the writer has even heard of the expression "barrier to entry".

[one...two...tree 2,762]

The way of the future will be digital download, which is what Netflix is already beginning to do.

Nick, if you have a high speed internet connection - try Hulu.com for TV shows. For movies though, It's hard to go wrong with Netflix.

[pedroh 21]

The way of the future will be digital download, which is what Netflix is already beginning to do.

Nick, if you have a high speed internet connection - try Hulu.com for TV shows. For movies though, It's hard to go wrong with Netflix.

netflix online has good tv shows as well... i get new seasons all the time, hard to catch up with all the series

[Mark&Steph 0]

Is there anything you don't run your mouth about?

Is he our very own Cliff Clavin?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Is there anything you don't run your mouth about?

Is he our very own Cliff Clavin?

Probably looks like him too.

[BluesTraveler 0]

Use to have about a dozen places in town, now down to just one, but seems recently, not even any good movies to rent. Trend now is to download movies, see lots of places on the net. Told my wife, we can huddle around her laptop, that would be the easiest, but she likes our ten foot screen. This would mean getting yet another computer with a video output and an adapter, putting that in our home theater room, running an internet cable, and maybe even waiting half a day to download a movie.

Samsung has some new Blu Ray players ($250) that have WiFi built in and they can stream net flix movies. Super simple to hook up to the 10 foot screen. The movies are streaming so you don't really have to wait for the movies to download, as long as you have DSL or Cable modem.

You can also stream content off of a PC, (hulu.com).

Amazon.com's streaming movies are a pretty good too.

[SuperDuper! 230]

Is there anything you don't run your mouth about?

Is he our very own Cliff Clavin?

That pic of Maude reminds me of my nagging ex-american wife

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Look out for Redbox

They are in a lot of supermarkets, Grocery Stores, I started to even see then at the entrance of Some Walmarts.

$1 a movie for the night then return it the next day before 9pm.

http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/?paged=13

[sojen 0]

I use netflix too because it's very convenient. No late fees and you can watch some of the movies instantly. Now they have this device that would allow you to watch movies streaming on your TV but I guess you it's going to cost extra.

[Mark&Steph 0]

Probably looks like him too.

Right down to the post office uniform.

That pic of Maude reminds me of my nagging ex-american wife

She was every red blooded american man's worst nightmare, wasn't she?

[Niels Bohr 72]

I use netflix too because it's very convenient. No late fees and you can watch some of the movies instantly. Now they have this device that would allow you to watch movies streaming on your TV but I guess you it's going to cost extra.

I thought you said it's very important.

They are from the BLOODS.

Look out for Redbox

They are in a lot of supermarkets, Grocery Stores, I started to even see then at the entrance of Some Walmarts.

$1 a movie for the night then return it the next day before 9pm.

http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/?paged=13

[Ban Hammer 13,334]

Charles ~ I always check your new releases on the Tues. MENA thread

there will be a new list out as soon as someone starts the daily thread.....

[NickD 202]

Until four months ago, our Hollywood Video had MVP, pay 15 bucks a month and can get three movies for up to five days. Even three movies everyday as long as you returned the previous three. Store was packed. Then they changed to paying 15 bucks per month that purchased points, a new release movie was four points, doesn't take a brain to figure out that is four bucks for rental. But you could keep that movie for a month, bad idea, most did, so the shelves for the newly released movies were empty. Told the manage, this is really dumb, but he said he can't change it, corporate rules, and he also agreed it was a dumb move. So four months later, they are out of business.

I am so sick of action movies, hero runs through 50 of the toughest guys in the world with tiny taps with the back of his hand and knocks them down dead. And the end of movie, a twenty minute fight with a 90 year old villian where the hero almost loses the battle. Car chase scenes are equally as boring, same old stuff year after year. Lately, our video store is loaded with movies craving people up with chain saws, not our idea of entertainment, or with spirits that don't seem to exist. Practically most of the movies we did rent went fast forward, no reason for the FBI to put on all those copying warnings.

To me, quality of reproduction takes a very distant 2nd place to quality of programming. While CBS, NBC, ABC, PBS, and even Fox had something worth watching each night, for at least only 30 minutes, practically nothing worth watching today. Neither my wife nor myself had the time to watch TV nor movies, but got on a movie kick with closed caption to help her with her English, so we did catch up on the better movies we never saw before. But that is history now, time to do something else.