So movie rental stores are biting the dust. Nothing new there. I can't even remember the last time I or any of my friends rented a movie from a bricks and mortar place like this? Whats that age old question? When a tree falls in the woods and no one is around does it make a sound? Plain and simple. When a local movie store closes now a days do people notice? Cheesy I know but a valid point.
So, long gone are the days of movie rental outlets. For most getting a movie has been reduced down to getting out the laptop and prowling your favorite movie site for something worthwhile. Forget wasting your time and money going out and renting something anymore when you can simply chase down your flic prey a la the information super highway. Ahhhh, a powerful toy and its right at your finger tips. Can you believe we once did this differently?! Look at how far we've come.
It's always sad when a video store closes. Yeah, the video store quickly became outclassed and outgunned, with Netflix and digital copies and more extensive video on demand, not to mention cheap dvds taking the store's place, but some still find it fun to go to a specific place to rent a movie. Wandering through rows and rows of movies, checking out what's new, looking at DVD cases of movies you've never heard of and/or would never watch. That's what made going to a video store fun.
With closure comes opportunity as the next big thing in movie rentals makes its bid for the top. Soon enough just like the dinosaurs they will all become extinct. A victim of their own technology. Its a dying breed ya know! Don't blame me, blame the internet.
If only I figured all this out before I bought into the whole vcr/dvd player thing.
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