By my house there is a Blockbuster that has been open since I have lived there (10 years) and on my Spring Break I noticed that everything in the store was on sale. People were running in and out, grabbing whatever DVD's, posters, and video games they could, before the store was completely empty.
Just recently I returned home for Easter break and the store is completely gone, and I blame not only NetFlix, but OnDemand as well. These two HUGE movie corporations have forced stores like Blockbuster and even SunCoast to “die out.”
It is just too easy now to sit on the couch, browse new releases, and have them automatically play with a single click of the remote, instead of going out of your way to a video store.
Maybe it is just me, but I have grown to love going out and browsing PHYSICAL copies of movies and choosing the one I want to see. Maybe it’s the nostalgic aspect of it all, but the more these mega movie corporations weed out and destroy these stand alone movie chains, the more I want to walk into one of them and choose a movie like I used to.
I think only one word describes the inevitable future of our home movie watching experience (besides “convenient”), and that is…
LAZY!
What do you guys think?
Same thing happened where I am from. I remember the same blockbuster since I moved there and now it is closed for good. What a shame! I remember I use to love going there looking for video games and movies.
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