On 5/31/2021 7:03 AM, John T. Stinkey wrote:
On 5/30/21 11:24 PM, micky wrote:
There were store video rental stores until last year, at least 5 in
Indiana:


One of the Region's last remaining video stores has vanished from the
landscape.

Oasis Video in Crown Point closed after 30 years.

Video stores have been fading for years as streaming services like
Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, Amazon Prime, Paramount+, Disney+, ESPN+, Apple
TV+, YouTube TV, Crunchyroll and Crackle have emerged to compete with
them.

Though their decline was ultimately as inevitable as that of physical
media, it was exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic that also killed
the last remaining national video store chain, Family Video, which
recently closed its last few area locations in Dyer, Highland, Griffith,
Valparaiso and LaPorte. Video stores had early access to recent
Hollywood blockbusters, but when Hollywood stopped releasing movies in
theaters and started to distribute them directly to streaming services,
video stores lost the last remaining competitive advantage they had.
Joseph S. Pete



AT$T Slowverse was never fast enough to stream HD but Xfinity gigabit
cable killed our video stores off.

We are also seeing the demise of movie theaters.