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i was in Bend, Oregon last weekend at the last Blockbuster, and it was really appealing.

- blu ray rentals were 99¢ / wk

- a vast trove of content

- no lock-in or monthly fees

sure, you actually have to make it to the store... but, 2007 never looked better.

now, Netflix was distributing by mail, and i think the promise was for them to stream all their content into homes. but, then it got messy.

but yeah, for 99¢ / movie, I'm happy to pay. i'll even occasionally pay to rent through AppleTV.

>>dfee+(OP)
Turns out going outside and interacting with strangers is actually quite good for you too.

>>dfee+(OP)
When we first moved to our rural area here the high speed wireless situation was atrocious and we found that because of that the local gas station & convenience stores still had a pretty active business renting DVD/BluRay movies. Until we could finally get decent high speed Internet without caps, we did that (and bought BluRay discs as well) which was only about 5, 6 years ago.

There was something quite nice and nostalgic about it.