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

On Sun, 30 May 2021 23:24:22 -0400, micky
wrote:

There were store video rental stores until last year, at least 5 in
Indiana:

I am not sure the last time I rented a movie but it was at least 20
years ago, maybe more like 25.
I was an early adopter tho. I was a member of a video club in the 70s,
renting Beta cassettes before VHS was a thing. They used to charge you
$150 a year or so just to be able to rent a movie. That was how they
raised the capital to get the movies in the first place.
Blockbuster was revolutionary because they didn't make you pay to join
to go there but their movies cost more per rental. I imagine if you
watched a lot of movies it might have been more expensive.

On Sunday, May 30, 2021 at 11:24:26 PM UTC-4, micky wrote:
There were store video rental stores until last year, at least 5 in
Indiana:

Ah, Indiana. Partying like it's 1999.

Cindy Hamilton

On Sun, 30 May 2021 23:48:37 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 30 May 2021 23:24:22 -0400, micky
wrote:

There were store video rental stores until last year, at least 5 in
Indiana:

I am not sure the last time I rented a movie but it was at least 20
years ago, maybe more like 25.


+ 1
... but hey ! - scratchy fragile dust-popping vinyl records
are making a comeback -
.... maybe there's hope for my Edison cylinders yet ?
John T.

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.

In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 31 May 2021 06:58:37 -0400,
wrote:

On Sun, 30 May 2021 23:48:37 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 30 May 2021 23:24:22 -0400, micky
wrote:

There were store video rental stores until last year, at least 5 in
Indiana:

I am not sure the last time I rented a movie but it was at least 20
years ago, maybe more like 25.


+ 1
... but hey ! - scratchy fragile dust-popping vinyl records
are making a comeback -
.... maybe there's hope for my Edison cylinders yet ?
John T.

Didn't I read that movies on vinyl platters have better color?

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.

On Mon, 31 May 2021 06:58:37 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 30 May 2021 23:48:37 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 30 May 2021 23:24:22 -0400, micky
wrote:

There were store video rental stores until last year, at least 5 in
Indiana:

I am not sure the last time I rented a movie but it was at least 20
years ago, maybe more like 25.


+ 1
... but hey ! - scratchy fragile dust-popping vinyl records
are making a comeback -
.... maybe there's hope for my Edison cylinders yet ?
John T.

There is still a pretty good sized stack of VHS tapes in my daughter's
room, movies she liked and an old tape machine but I doubt it has been
turned on in 20 years. I imagine the belts have turned to dust.

On Mon, 31 May 2021 13:45:37 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 31 May 2021 06:58:37 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 30 May 2021 23:48:37 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 30 May 2021 23:24:22 -0400, micky
wrote:

There were store video rental stores until last year, at least 5 in
Indiana:

I am not sure the last time I rented a movie but it was at least 20
years ago, maybe more like 25.


+ 1
... but hey ! - scratchy fragile dust-popping vinyl records
are making a comeback -
.... maybe there's hope for my Edison cylinders yet ?
John T.

There is still a pretty good sized stack of VHS tapes in my daughter's
room, movies she liked and an old tape machine but I doubt it has been
turned on in 20 years. I imagine the belts have turned to dust.


A couple years ago, I found a Denon stereo component
cassette player at a thrift store ~ $ 15. ish because my
grandson suddenly took an interest in our old cassette tapes -
and I was pleasantly surprised that it worked just fine !
... just made a bit of a clunk when starting/stopping fast speed -
- I suspect maybe a little rubber noise-damping pad went awol.
John T.

On 2021-05-31, wrote:
... but hey ! - scratchy fragile dust-popping vinyl records
are making a comeback -
.... maybe there's hope for my Edison cylinders yet ?

I've been buying quite a bit of new vinyl and the quality is quite
good, not scratchy at all. Of course keeping them that way is the
challenge.

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On 2021-05-31, micky wrote:
Didn't I read that movies on vinyl platters have better color?

I haven't found that to be the case, maybe a little better than VHS
if the disc and stylus are in good shape. They tend to skip a lot though.
(You did realize when you wrote that there was such a system sold, right?
I still have it.)

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