Who killed Blockbuster Video?

hollywood video

Red Box

Sudoku

HD-DVD killed Blockbuster

The Kwik-Mart

>>83845320
Viacom, along with not buying Netflix

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>>83845320

Oh a oh

>>83845320
6.99 for new releases (2 days) was fucked dude

>>83845320
THE INTERNET

Was your local BB a community cornerstone for anyone else? When mine died a part of the community died along with it...

>>83845542
No because I had 3.

radio

>>83845320
digital media, and their own shitty stock

If video killed the radio star, what killed video?

>>83845439
Unironically this. I worked for Blockbuster and Viacom are retards.

>>83845542
For the mini mall it was in, yeah.

But definitely not on any scale past that.

>>83845320
Paul Feig

Vhs movies used to cost like $60-100 bucks so people rented. Dvds became so cheap people just bought them.

Redbox and online streaming. I can't believe you made a thread for something so obvious

There was a sweet spot of about 2 years when Blockbuster was imitating Netflix and sending movies through the mail and you could return the movies to the Blockbuster store, thus saving time on the return shipping and getting new ones faster. That was the one advantage Blockbuster had over Netflix. It didn't last long.

>>83845644
THIS

>>83845542
Yup. Now it's just a big empty building.

>>83845598
they were still trying to pull this expensive rent shit even with dvd and especial games

retail is dying in general, blockbuster was just the first casualty.

>>83845496
Internet killed the VCR Star

I think people just dont have the attention span for movies anymore.

>>83845731
Blockbuster was the first to go because they were awful to their customers so the instant something better came along everybody abandoned it.

>>83845320
I did.

>>83845794
I'm starting to believe that myself these days.

My old neighborhood Blockbuster turned into one of them year round Halloween costume stores.

>>83845892
Hot Topic?

>>83845320
When DVDs became a thing and pirates took over the internet.

not taking Netflix on their offer killed buttbuster.

>>83845892
Mine is sitting there empty or maybe it is a payday loan place I try not to look to avoid feels ;(

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>>83845460

>>83845909
Its called Halloween Megastore

>>83845892
Both of the ones near me are now urgent care clinics

I had a dream the other day that a video rental place opened up down the road, but it was all Paki films. Wonder what that meant?

>>83846004
Had a vision of the future of the UK

There is an independent video store still running in my town, a decade after the blockbuster down the street boarded up. There will be a market for video rental until the last baby boomer dies, it's just they had awful business practices and lazy staff.

>>83845794
>>83845886
Totally. Which is the fault of cellphones and everyone being more obsessed with Facebook, Snapchat or Instagram than actually watching something. Or watching dumb shit on Youtube. No ones going to theaters, buying DVDs or paying for cable TV just because of pirating online. Soon the newest generations won't have attention spans capable of watching anything above 12 minutes.

>>83845562
the 4d chess star

>>83846004
Did you recently watch American Gods?

>>83846071

Ah quit whining gramps, couldn't even be bothered to finish reading your post

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What happens with the empty blockbuster buildings?

>>83846174
Nah, I'm not into gay porn

>>83845320
blockbuster killed blockbuster

100% crappy big name flicks

zero interesting movies

insane late fees

>>83846230
A lot of blockbusters had a deal with Mattress Firm, so that's what a lot of them turned to. Mine was next to a car repair shop so they just turned into a showcase shop for their tires and other products

>>83846269
>from watching flicks to watching tires

well, that's an improvement

>>83846230
Vape Shops

>>83846230
My local Blockbuster is a CVS now. Seriously though, I can't see how anyone can have all that much nostalgia for brick and mortar rental stores. Especially corporate chains that charged way too much.

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>>83846071
>people are now watching movies and tv shows online instead of getting them physically
>HURR THIS GENERATION IS FUCKED GUYS

Pic related is you.

>there are blockbusters still around
Can a businessfag explain that to me? I thought big-daddy BB went bankrupt and closed its doors, how are there still like 6 up in Alaska using the Blockbuster name?

>>83846183
The funny part is your entire generation is too socially awkward to say that to someone's face.

>>83846410

That's not funny

>drive all the way to block buster
>half the store of new releases is taken
>get shitty old movie
>don't get any drinks candy or popcorn because it is cheaper at the gas station across the street

>>83846366
I'll be 35 next month so my childhood was during the prime video rental store years. I have zero nostalgia for it and don't really understand why anyone does.

>>83845892
Mine by my parent's house became another video store (a mom/pop one that sold cigarettes and alcohol) which had little to no selection but still sold VHS tapes (which were super outdated by then) and also sold porn. It looked really weird because it had too much space inside the store minus the Blockbuster stock and shelves. It lasted like that 3 months tops. Then it was quartered off as strip mall restaurants into KFC/Taco Bell and Subway. But it still looked like the ruins of a Blockbuster. Now it's a 24/7 women's fitness gym where peeping toms can watch ladies treadmaster through Blockbuster windows. I don't know how the strip mall manages to stay open.

>>83846366
Half of those are right.

>>83845320
You know the experience and service is kept alive at your local Public Library.

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>Tfw still go to the last blockbuster standing that's not in Alaska

Give me some good kino recommendations, I picked up The Hunt last week because I saw people here talking about it, and holy fuck it was hard to keep watching.

>>83845963
That happened to a Best Buy in my city. Like electronic retail takes such a hit you can only sell costumes instead?

>>83846609
My local library does not have a gumball machine that let's you rent a free game or movie if you get the white gumball

>>83846337
Same reason I feel nostalgic whenever I see an old guy fumbling with an antenna on a CRT in a film. It's not just about the shop.

>>83846499
also
>forget to turn in movie on time
>get charged $9001 + your left kidney as a late fee

>>83845320
Blockbuster

Mine was part of a 2 suite stand alone building that was connected to a McDonald's, it's sat there empty for at least 7 years now. The problem is I don't know what you could put there since it's attached to the mcd's

>>83846722
Diabetic testing supply store?

Blockbuster was killed by its own dumb business practices. The refused to rent porn (something that kept lots of local business open way after Blockbusters closed), and were too stupid to get in on mail rentals before it was too late. And maybe a lot of people here are too young to remember, but a big reason people stopped wanting to go to Blockbuster is that they were a pain in the ass to deal with. Their rentals were usually more expensive than local places, and they would always try to claim something was returned late and charge a fee, regardless of whether something was actually late or not.

I was actually glad when they closed.

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>>83846780

>>83846408
>be American
>stuck in bumfuck no sunshine nowhere
>want to watch a film
>have shitty and limited internet
What do you do?

>>83845320

So how much longer until mom and pop video rental places start popping up again made by hispters due to the nostalgia factor?

>>83845562
The Information Super Highway

>>83845320
The big question is, what about studios that used to make direct-to-video films? How did they cope with their distribution gone? If you weren't able to rent a new release you usually rented a terrible Lorenzo Lamas action flick.

>>83846889
Nostalgia doesn't really work with technology, and when it does it's as a collector's item which just sits on a shelf.

>>83846630
how does it smell

>>83846780
I like you

>>83846977
Really, really old.

>>83846889
>start

It's already a thing in hipster neighborhoods in several cities

>>83846889
There are still a lot in rural and semi-rural areas because of issues with internet service, and their being the only place where people can easily access porn. I just did a 1700 mile road trip, and most small towns I saw had at least one video rental place.

why bother closing Blockbuster when it is completely impossible to find any Redford or Hoffman movies on Netflix or in that fucking Redbox? it's not the fucking same

>>83847046
Because not enough people watch that stuff to justify keeping a multi-million dollar franchise's doors open

>>83845339
fbpb

>>83847080
I will open one but call it Rockbuster Video for copyright purposes. There is definitely a niche market still there.

>>83847150
Enjoy bankruptcy

>>83846230
Of the 3 blockbusters I used to frequent, two are now liquor stores and one is a pub

>>83846889
At least some towns in the world still has mom/pop shops selling Punjabi, Asian, new releases and porn DVDs like an awkward Redbox. Also major cities might have one specialty hipster video store. I know my hometown and current city both do. But the chances of someone doing a chain of stores now?

>>83846630
>poster for a vidya game that's almost a decade old

>>83847004
>>83847027
>>83847228
Yeah, like these guys typed they still exist.

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>>83847046
He hasn't discoved Popcorn Time.

>>83845892
Mine is a mattress store now.

I remember, when it was Blockbuster, that there were a lot of dead doves in the parking lot the store had. Good old times. My younger self was disgusted but curious everytime I went.

>>83846795
Blockbuster didn't have porn but if you knew what to get it still had fap material for teenage boys like exercise videos, foreign racy films, softcore or erotic thrillers, rated 18A films with high content of nudity, etc.

>>83845892
Mine is a christain thrift store, still have a Super Video though

those goddamn millenials with their rap music

They did by not hiring me because "I had no experience"

Began actively boycotting them since 2007. Glad we won the war!

>>83845339
Hollywood video went down first, at least in my area.

>>83847770
There was a blockbuster hate website that was up until like 2014. What on earth they talked about during those last few years is beyond comprehension

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what could have saved Blockbuster?

>>83845542
Yes, when they closed it was depressing as fuck

I heard that they were skeptical about streaming because the average American had a slower internet speed back in the day

>>83848202
Netflix didn't have streaming either when it first came out. They were a purely mail based DVD service which BB didn't see as lucrative

>>83848082
Actually doing streaming before Netflix.

Imagine how bad a "Blockbuster Original" series would be

>>83848270
I mean when rumors of Netflix doing streaming started going around, Blockbuster thought it would flop

I've never been to blockbuster, I grew up in a small town so I just went to the local video store. Now it's just a lounge room for an auto dealership but they kept the original sign up.

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>>83846366
Letter writing continued as a extreme sport far into the 1980s and further.
>1884
It was different. Pre industrial enterprises and post industrial enterprises are in completely different paces and size.
>1886
Thats a culture thing. Why is the retard thinking its a "period when our forefathers" thing?
>1890
WTF is he smoking.
>1891
He is complaining that people are writing letters.
>1892
Britfag complaining because he doesn't understand that Plate Graving was pursuit of passion, mostly due prohibitive costs. The days are not gone, people simply moved over to other forms of art, due supply cost decreasing.
>G.J. Goschen
Literally student complaining that he wants to be a journalist, but can't make 30 page monstrosities. Meanwhile in modern world: People still publish topic books because its still a thing
>1895 & 1896
Thats a thing. We saw similar things once VHS tapes for consumers was a thing. Or The Internet for phones.
>Complaints about schooling
Truly a modern phenomena
>Walks
Do we want to talk about how pavement has changed?

>>83847825
Forums can remain active with even 10 users posting in those retarded forum games.

Family Video

>>83845320
I know video killed the radio star, so it was a justified death.

>>83846630


looks comfy as fuck

>>83845320

Blockbuster.

I used to work at a blockbuster and the company was insanely stupid. I remember when my bosses jumped ship. The District Manage and Regional Manager. Everyone knew it was a sinking ship for years before it really sank.


They were not adapting to the market fast enough. They tried to make exclusive deals. "want to see this movie? ONLY AT BLOCKBUSTER" this stuff was all done too late in the game. The Revenue sharing system was dropping. They just took too long to make things work. Their online movie delivery at the door system didn't work. Their 2 movies out pass at the store was pretty expensive. They all but opted to fail by not being as competitive as possible.

>>83846251

>complaining about late fees

nigger detected

>>83845794
This. Went and saw guardians 2 and there were 4 middle school kids in the film. Who would not stop talking or full on dancing during parts of the movie. They all acted as though thus was normal.

>>83852228
Blockbuster was ridiculous about that stuff, though. There's a reason there was a lot of hate for them on the internet back in the day, and most of that revolved around late fees that Blockbuster would try to charge for no reason. One time, they tried to make me pay for a movie they said I never returned, so I went and found it on the shelf to prove that I did (there was only one copy in the store). It was just a cheap ploy to make extra revenue because they probably figured most people wouldn't bother to contest the fees.

>>83846251
without strict late fees. people wouldnt bring back movies and you would never get to watch what you want and would always have trouble finding something. they were annoying when they happened to you but they were necessary

>>83845320
Literally white people and donald "Hitler" Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azdwsXLmrHE

>>83845320
They did.

The president of Blockbuster passed on buying Netflix for 50 mil when the Netflix CEO offered to sell it.

Now it's worth almost 40 billion.

>>83852653
>figured most people wouldn't bother to contest the fees.
I worked at a Blockbuster in the late 90's and I seem to recall that EVERYONE contested those fees constantly nobody ever accepted them

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>>83845525
>6.99 for new releases (2 days)
>(2 days)
>24 hours is "2 days", because you rent it on one day, and return it another

Every time I put a Netflix DVD in the mail, I felt like I was nailing the coffin shut on these crooks.

>tfw first job I got as an 18 year old was at blockbuster
>only lasted a year before the store was shut down
>most of my time there was spent upselling candy, locking people into membership programs, and helping the store ship all of its inventory away because it was closing
>majority of my co-workers were cholos in their late 20s working their part time to feed their kids

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>>83853922

Unemployment is worse than a cold burrito.

>>83845320
(((millenials)))

>>83847399
Do you live in NC

I had a Rogers Video instead. Roger Video was fucking way better than Blockbuster but my Rogers Video closed before the shitty Blockbuster did so I was stuck going to dick-ass Blockbuster for like a year before that closed too

>>83846366
tldr

>>83846071
Who here /wronggeneration/?

DVD and the internet.

Creative-destruction.

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That dinosaur who chased the bus into their store.

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>>83846630
SEAGAL SPOTTED
IN THIS BLOCKBUSTER OPERATING

>>83845644
How did Blockbuster fuck that up?

>>83854350
Rogers video was based as hell.
Mine had a giant slide/playstructure inside and a giant popcorn machine.
And it was next door to a Pizza Hut and always smelled like delicious 'za.

>>83846630
>Hard Target 2
Holy shit, I didn't even know this existed.

>>83846795
>Their rentals were usually more expensive than local places
This, and local stores usually had a better selection of films. The only advantage Blockbuster had was that they had the newer releases sooner than local stores, but I almost never rented any of those anyway.

>>83845892

Mine is a mattress store, dentist, and an empty office space.

Mine's a Sherwin Williams or something like that.

I still try to make an effort of renting physical copies, I just do it from my library. I queue up what I want from their selection and I get notified when they're arrived. It's pretty nice because they pretty much get every new release, and on BD. HBOGo and Netflix can't even come close to providing enough.

>>83845320

As a kid there was something truly magical about going to Blockbuster with your mates and spending 45 minutes carefully selecting 3-4 action-movies featuring the likes of JCVD/Seagal/Arnold etc. Or just one of the +100 monster-movies at the time: Deep Blue Sea, Anaconda or some Aligator shit. Then you knew you were in for a great night.

Youngfags will never know this feel.

>>83856223

Along with that kids parents stepping out for the night or just staying upstairs, not but before ordering you all pizza and coke. No one had cellphones, not even bricks, you couldn't be disturbed and no one could be distracted.

>>83845320
Netflix, then Internet streaming.

Blockbuster had a change, but they slept on it. They had a DVD mail service to compete with Netflix, but it was shit. They had less distribution centers so your DVD took longer to get to you. By the time Netflix debuted their streaming service, it was too late.

Redbox was the nail in the coffin.

Due to poor management and not keeping up with technology, they killed themself.

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>>83856223
>>83856473
fuck this nostalgia

>>83856582

Blockbuster's DVD mail service wasn't great unless you took advantage of those coupons, like the weekly the free in-store rental, the popcorn and candy, etc.

>>83856620
I live in a large metro area and my DVD took 4 business days in the mail to get to me. Switched to Netflix and it was one day to me, one day back. Blockbuster DVD mail service was utter shit.

And the purpose of the mail service was so that you don't have to physically go to a store. That's why the coupons and the returning the mail service DVDs to the store was fucking retarded. It defeated the whole purpose.

>>83856223
>browse Horror section all the time
>have to rely on the cover and backpanel to sell me on it

Sucked being burned by a shitty movie just because it had an interesting cover.

>>83856695
You have to rely on the theory that if the cover/synopsis looks good, it's probably shit. Just like if the trailer looks awesome, it's probably shit, and vice-versa.

Also, look at the actors and director, etc. If you don't recognize a single name, do not watch until you have more information to confirm if it's shit or not.

>>83856744
Yeah, well, I had to learn that the hard way.

Which caused me to generally rent TCM and The Shining a billion times because they were safe bets.

>>83856783
Can't go wrong with those two.

They killed themselves. How anyone in the industry couldn't see that subscription based on demand media was the future of media is beyond me. They could've bought netflix for pennies on the dollar. Hell people were already pirating movies off torrents, limewire and emule years before they even went out of business. This is another example of a company that think their immune from market trends and competition because they're a household name.

fuck the nostalgia fags, we like in much better times

>>83856882
Pretty much this. They were offered to buy Netflix for $50mm. They decided to launch their own mail service which failed.

Once internet speeds were fast enough to stream/DL/Torrent etc. it was too late.

>>83846071
i ant reading youre book fgt

>>83846512
Most of us had friends and went to these video stores on Friday night to find something to watch.

This is how people discovered things like anime before the internet went mainstream.

>>83857173
Like how back in the day you could only get dbz on vhs.

>>83856910
>we like in much better times
I miss when people could construct legible sentences.

>>83846512
38 here loved hanging around vidstores because i could smoke there and trash talk. Nope, not missing it one bit, just good memories

ur mum

>>83846673
Wow, even in gumballs white is best

>>83846795
I worked for a video store and 99.5% of the time there was a late fee on something it was because it was fucking late.

It comes back and you instantly scan it into the system. Our store wasn't even strict on the time. Titles scanned in before the last hour of business on weekends and before close on weeknights didn't get charged anything. And people would still bitch and moan about it. There were people who you could see from their address lived less than a 2 minutes walk away from the store who would drop shit off over a week late and then act confused when there was a big bill.

Fuck people. Customer service made me hate them.

>>83846953
>The big question is, what about studios that used to make direct-to-video films?

They cut out distribution costs by being able to make it available directly for download and then can offset losses down the line by offering distribution streaming rights to netflix.

>>83845320
You and I
;_;

>>83857173
That's the thing. Video stores were a social thing you spent with friends, family and your girlfriend picking out movies and eating pizza on the couch too. That's another social interaction the autist fedora millenial faggots on this Mongolian knitting shitboard with their low attention spans will never understand.

>>83845340
/thread

Idk if anybody remembers but Blockbuster tried making their own Redboxes, like they set up their own versions of those self-serve movie rental machines. But it was literally a matter of months between when I first saw one and when they were gone.

>>83845598
>Vhs movies used to cost like $60-100 bucks
Literally when

>>83845320
Inability to evolve

>>83845562
Streaming and cheap kiosk rentals

>>83845892
Mine turned into a seasonal Halloween store.

>>83846230
A lot of them are still empty, a cruel reminder of what once was

>>83858441
Almost 1488 backwards

>>83861221
So it's empty for 11 months of the year but then open to sell costumes and decorations during one month?

>>83861240
Because the spaces are too fucking large. They should be subdivided or something by the body corporate because who the fuck needs that much store space anymore? Retail is dying so why would anyone purchase a massive space like that unless they were going to open a gym or something?

>>83845542
just another headstone in the wal-mart parking lot

>>83846071
Nope. The main problem is that sometime in the mid-2000s, someone decided that movies ought to be 3 hours long in order for people to "get their money's worth."

Kids would still sit though movies today if they were as short and good as Robocop.

>>83845320
Blockbuster killed Blockbuster.

Their DVDs were so scratched and dirty that anything older than one year was unplayable. Often times they would only have one copy of a certain game or film. I remember going to Blockbuster at least six times and they never had what I wanted because it was checked out.

To their credit, I will say they let me buy a rated R film back when I was 12. That was pretty cool of them. Those fags who work at Gamestop would never permit that.

>>83861102
Way back in the late 70's early 80's. Also the more special edition or rarity it was the chances that a distribution company would charge a hefty price. I remember thumbing thru an old video catalogue and videos could go for 4.99 or freaking 100 dollars! It just depended on the film.

>>83861487
lol

>>83861588
they also had a chance to buy Netflix when it was just starting up, and they passed up because "that will never catch on"

The blockbuster near my college lasted a surprisingly long time. It made the final stand with the company and closed in 2014. Glad I was able to reminisce some while I was there

>>83845339
Mine is a starbucks now. I WANT TO GO BACK

>>83861552
A lot of movies still clock in at 80 or 90 minutes. And Le Epic movie was not a new thing since they've been doing it since the 50's with bible movies. Except by the 60's they actually had intermissions in films for musicals etc but killed that long ago.

But ask yourself for movies with huge hype and are summer blockbusters do want a Pirates of the Carribean, Transformers, Mummy, Marvel or DC capeshit to just clock in at 100 minutes? Seems to kill the point of going to see a movie which is just an overrated TV episode, right?

>>83861844
>intermission revival when?
I would actually return to the kino-plex

>>83845320
Red Box, Netflix, and torrents.

>>83861617
In the mid 90's new releases on vhs at Blockbuster were still priced at $89.95

>>83862268
Bullshit nigger

>>83845542
My childhood died with it.

>>83852373
Wait middle schoolers were literally dancing in the theater?

>>83862338
i got 20 dollars that says they were black

>>83846071
tl:dr

>>83862286
Shit...I remember The Hunt for Red October came out it was $120.00. Blockbuster used to sell pre-rented movies for $80

>>83862385
thats racist but kek
i bet the audience were throwing loose pennies and half eaten drum sticks

>>83847004
>>83847004
this...and guess what, they are fucking price-gouging as fuck. 10 bucks for a VHS rental

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKM4_Qstrek

>the stale popcorn
can still remember looking at covers of movies I hadn't seen and trying to guess what they were about

fight club just has a bar of soap, fear and loathing the face was all stretched out, thought it was an animated movie

>>83845892
The one on my side of town is a breakfast/lunch restaurant and the one across town is a college sports merch store

>>83845991
How's that Omaha life treating you, anon?

>>83845320
yify v 10 a 10

>>83845320
It's revenge for when they killed the radio star.

>>83845909
That was a pretty good one.

>>83861102
i never believed it until my friend brought home Clue for VHS parties

fucking 80 bucks for a copy of Manhunter in the catalogue next to some forty dollar bible videos

>>83863131
I bought Scream for $70 at Target when it first came out on video.

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>>83845320

I feel as though I need to clear some things up about who really killed Blockbuster.

>Blockbuster Video used to be owned by a Jew owned company named Viacom
>Viacom are money-grubbing whores
>Viacom buys all of blockbuster's rentals and merch with loans, instead of profits
>every year use profit to pay off loans, take out new loans to buy new merchandise
>blockbuster decides to split from viacom because they are tyrants
>viacom takes all of blockbuster's profits from that year, but does not pay off the loans
>the loans were taken out under blockbuster's name, not viacom's, so the loans technically belong to blockbuster
>viacom does not tell this to blockbuster corporate
>when blockbuster finds out, there is already a shit ton of interest, and viacom has all of their profits
>desperately try every quarter to pay off loans
>1 mil loan becomes 3 mil then 5 mil, finally tens of millions of dollars are owed
>go chapter 11, file for bankruptcy
>Dish network buys Blockbuster Video, because they want to use the iconic Blockbuster Video logo to sell tv subscriptions, plus wants brick and mortar stores to sell tv subscriptions
>closes unprofitable stores that were still around after chapter 11 closings
>has 300 locations left
>all are profitable
>blockbuster is profitable as a whole again, especially in the North East
>fast forward 2 years to 2013
>Dish decides to go exclusively to streaming
>considers selling BBV
>no fewer than 3 companies are interested in buying
>but Dish wants to keep Blockbuster logo for streaming service, cant do that if they sell the company
>decide to liquidate stores, put 3000 people out of work, all over the rights to a logo
>tell employees they are being laid off AFTER telling the news networks

Blockbuster's problem was it was owned by two shitty corporations.

>>83863437
Wow. What a story.

Who /familyvideo/ here?

>>83845320

The DNC

>>83846230
24hr gyms

>>83845320
Mr. Rafasa and Netflix loyalists.

>>83845460
>THE AUTHOR OF ALL YOUR PAIN

>>83852373
>wah I couldn't concentrate on my spandex wearing faggots fly around

Great exapmple, bucko. Next time you should complain how toddlers aren't focused on why a Disney princess is feeling oppresed.

>>83865013
There's nobody who wears spandex or flies in GotG2.

>>83845892
Funny, one in my town turned into one of those for about a year. Now it's a seasonal costume store, the rest of the time it sells odd home furnishings and always has some strange custom golf cart for sale out front.

[s]Wichita?[/s]

>>83847150
>Rockbuster
>It's like Blockbuster but the clues dont make sense

>>83845837
nope, hollywood video went 3 years before blockbuster

>>83845320
Blockbuster killed themselves by not buying out Netflix when it was a mailing service in the early 2000s and by adapting too late and having generally shitty business practices.

Nostalgiafags are deluded, it wasn't that great of an experience. Hence why it is extinct.

>>83845320
We did, anon. We did.

>>83845320
South Park

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>>83866485

>>83845320
napster
lime wire
bear share
torrents

they called and harassed me constantly about a $14 late fee on Beastmaster
fuck 'em all

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>>83845542
Fuck no. Local video stores were far better. Our last 2 and longest lasting, and arguably best video stores stayed open for business finally closed for good just a few months ago.
RIP Premier Video
RIP Cashwise Video
The movie-night is still alive and well in my town. It's just evolved to a point where video stores just couldn't compete. From Redbox and gamefly to netflix and other streaming services. Midnight screenings at the local cinema on broadway are still a big deal.
>tfw watching Fargo in the Fargo Theater because I live in Fargo

>>83852653
>There's a reason there was a lot of hate for them on the internet back in the day, and most of that revolved around late fees that Blockbuster would try to charge for no reason.
This.
Blockbuster's late fees would crop of for the most ridiculous reasons. The only time my friends and I would use that place was if we won a free rental under a sprite cap or something. All these summerfags were too young to realize how shit Blockbuster really was. The only nostalgic memory I have about that place is when I saw the Out of Business sign hanging in its window.

>>83846512
This, Blockbuster was fucking garbage
>>83857173
Real friends didn't let their friends rent from Blockbuster. That place and Hollywood video were the absolute last resort, bottom of the barrel video stores in my town.

>>83868186
I saw the Master in the Fargo Theater. Lots of old people walking out. One of the better movie-going experiences of my life.

>>83846795
>try to claim something was returned late and charge a fee, regardless of whether something was actually late or not.
I'm convinced they would just collect their roadside returns at the end of the night and count every one of them late because lol they had to be back by 3:00PM ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

>>83845320
It just wasn't a viable option for the Jewish community with the digital age coming in quick.
The Jewish community grew to become more hungry, more obsessed so they pushed the button and Blockbuster was no more.

Radio's son took vengeance for the death of his father.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwuy4hHO3YQ

Reddit and Netflix

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>>83845320
Me!