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re: Blockbuster Documentary Netflix
Posted on 3/23/21 at 10:02 pm to bigberg2000
Posted on 3/23/21 at 10:02 pm to bigberg2000
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I didnt see the doc but heard on the radio from guys who had that they said once they stopped the late fees things really went downhill fast.
Yeah. Mostly because there was nothing left on the shelves for customers to check out because people were keeping games/movies so long.
The loss of revenue from the fees probably didn't help either.
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Posted on 3/23/21 at 10:08 pm to DaleGribble
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Yeah. Mostly because there was nothing left on the shelves for customers to check out because people were keeping games/movies so long.
The late fees were bullshite toward the end. If you paid late fees, you were a sucker...especially when they didn't prevent you from renting.
Now small Mom and Pops rental places would cut you off but not Blockbuster.
They weren't going to sue you over $100 in late fees and they still wanted your business. Late fees were a scam especially when Blockbuster would have 100 copies of the new releases on the wall. It was like that old nonsense of charging for not rewinding.
If they wanted to ban you, fine. But they never did and paying a made-up fee was throwing money away. The same hustle up sell at a Jiffy Lube.
This post was edited on 3/23/21 at 10:12 pm
Posted on 3/23/21 at 10:16 pm to Dr RC
Idk I think they had already took on huge amounts of debt just to play catch up on. By then Netflix already had its eye towards original content, I’m not sure they could have competed in the arms race. Maybe have been a more attractive buy out candidate for someone looking to jump in the game
Wasn’t theirs streaming service more of just basically renting current titles ?
Wasn’t theirs streaming service more of just basically renting current titles ?
Posted on 3/23/21 at 10:27 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
What about rewind fees on VHS?
Posted on 3/23/21 at 10:53 pm to Aubie Spr96
I remember when you could rent the whole consoles back then from them. Playing the PSone or Dreamcast for the first time was something else as a little kid.
Posted on 3/24/21 at 3:29 am to BilJ
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Funny how they really don’t want to admit Netflix was their demise
it really wasnt, it was their idiot owner
Posted on 3/24/21 at 4:47 am to djsdawg
It was an amalgamation of things. Stupid business practices, terrible ownership, and the rise of streaming services like Netflix all contributed to the demise of Blockbuster and video rental stores in general. The craziest thing about video rental stores is how quickly they came and went. The industry seemingly cropped up overnight and, within the space of fewer than 30 years, disappeared as quickly as it had come.
This post was edited on 3/24/21 at 4:49 am
Posted on 3/24/21 at 5:08 am to RollTide1987
We had a place like this in the 80s.
Just stickers on the wall with box cover prints and you took the sticker to the counter and like a library, she'd do the Dewey decimal system and give you the movie in a generic black box.
So Blockbuster was like wow...I can see what I'm bringing home. Cover art, what a concept.
Just stickers on the wall with box cover prints and you took the sticker to the counter and like a library, she'd do the Dewey decimal system and give you the movie in a generic black box.
So Blockbuster was like wow...I can see what I'm bringing home. Cover art, what a concept.
Posted on 3/24/21 at 8:30 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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You could walk the same aisles over and over again and spend an hour in that store trying to pick a movie.
Physical rentals took forever unless you absolutely knew what you wanted.
Now Prime/Netflix it takes a minute. You don't like it, click on something else.
But a physical rental you had to be damn sure you were going to like it. Two trips to the store, rental and return, fees, late fees. That was investment of time and money we don't see today. Movie better not suck.
I will literally look through Netflix and others for an hour sometimes before I can pick a movie. I feel crushed by the nearly unlimited options.
Posted on 3/24/21 at 9:06 am to Aubie Spr96
I love how everyone acts like Blockbuster is this ancient relic of the past that only 90's kids really remember. Pretty sure a lot of people were still renting movies from there as early as 10 years ago.
Posted on 3/24/21 at 9:26 am to WB504
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I used to work at Blockbuster in the early 2000s. It was funny thinking back to the meetings we had with the district manager. He was so sure Netflix and Redbox were just fads and people would always value brick and mortar stores.
I used to manage one. We had a meeting with an upper level manager, and the question came up about streaming video. his answer was "we've looked into internet video, and we believe that the internet will never be fast enough to stream whole movies without long buffering times."
Posted on 3/24/21 at 9:31 am to boxcarbarney
I still have a Blockbuster trailer tape - the video they used to play over the store monitors - that I stole from the store the day I left for good. Watching this documentary reminded me of it. I found it, popped it into the vhs player (yes, I still have one of those) and it still worked.
I need to figure out how to transfer vhs to my computer so that I can upload it to youtube.
I need to figure out how to transfer vhs to my computer so that I can upload it to youtube.
Posted on 3/24/21 at 9:45 am to boxcarbarney
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I found it, popped it into the vhs player (yes, I still have one of those) and it still worked.
Did you think it wouldn't work or something?
I watched a VHS a couple years ago. Wanted to watch a movie that I thought I had on DVD, but I apparently only had it on VHS. So I hooked it up and popped it in and enjoyed myself. Just had to get over it not only not being in HD, but being shitty quality blown up onto my 65" TV.
Posted on 3/24/21 at 9:48 am to boxcarbarney
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I used to manage one. We had a meeting with an upper level manager, and the question came up about streaming video. his answer was "we've looked into internet video, and we believe that the internet will never be fast enough to stream whole movies without long buffering times."
Right, IIRC Blockbuster eventually came around to streaming, but it was way late to that party and was dying by that point, right?
Where Blockbuster fricked up IMO was not adjusting to the Redbox niche sooner. That is an area where it could have dominated since it already had the brand name. And it could've perhaps used that as another revenue stream that it could've funded other ventures (like streaming). If anything, it could've either prolonged the business several more years or made it a more profitable acquisition for a buyout.
Posted on 3/24/21 at 9:52 am to jlovel7
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I will literally look through Netflix and others for an hour sometimes before I can pick a movie. I feel crushed by the nearly unlimited options.
Sometimes after the wife and kids go to bed, I look so long through Netflix trying to decide what to watch that I either fall asleep on the couch or it's time to go to bed
Posted on 3/24/21 at 10:00 am to CocomoLSU
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Did you think it wouldn't work or something?
Well yeah. Its a 21 year old vhs tape that would play for 15+ hours a day for a month, and was meant to be destroyed after. I prepared for the possibility that it wouldn't work, if that helps.
This post was edited on 3/24/21 at 10:02 am
Posted on 3/24/21 at 10:06 am to boxcarbarney
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I still have a Blockbuster trailer tape - the video they used to play over the store monitors
Reminds me of when E! first signed onto cable as Movietime. It was literally a movie trailer channel, where they would play current film trailers on a loop. After a few months Greg Kinnear and some others popped up as sort of VJs, which morphed into E Channel and Talk Soup.
Posted on 3/24/21 at 10:07 am to CocomoLSU
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I found it, popped it into the vhs player (yes, I still have one of those) and it still worked.
Did you think it wouldn't work or something?
For the popular releases you had to sometimes do home repairs.
Like taking a nickel and winding the tape because it was so loose it wouldn't play.
Posted on 3/24/21 at 10:09 am to ClampClampington
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no concept of anything outside of streaming
or dial up..
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