Nah....I get your point, but she actually discussed why she thought it was a solid company and pretty extensively about her personal life during this conversation. The woman pretty much dominated the conversation. If she thought the company had a new business model, the only thing she mentioned is that you can rent the game systems at their stores and buy snack food. ;) Maybe she was trying to convince herself and her friends that Blockbuster is a strong company, but honestly, if I worked for a company that was in trouble, I probably wouldn't monopolize a conversation talking about how wonderful it was.

P.S. You read INTO my post what you wanted just fine.

The one area that I see BlockBuster still having the corner on is renting video games. Do any of the other movie services mentioned also rent video games?

Netflix does.

And there is also GameFly that specializes in video games.

And Redbox is testing Blueray but not games AFAIK

I'm sorry, but these lists are bullshit. They're created by the same people who do the THESE COMPANIES ARE CLOSING news stories and then it turns out the company is closing 10 of their 500 locations or something.

Chicken Little needs to STFU.

I think video stores have the corner for casual renters or people who may not have access to the internet or credit/debit cards. AFAIK RedBox only carries new releases and if you only rent a movie 3 times a year like me NetFlix is a waste. I don't know about BB's financial health specifically, but I don't see brick and mortar video rental stores being a thing of the past just yet.

I thought of this thread today when my mom told me that the Hollywood Video by us is going out of business. That is the 3rd HV in town that has 'gone out of business.'

Why can BB leave instead?? I much prefer Hollywood!!! Where am I going to rent my movies now??? *sadness*

Family Video if you have them?

I've always liked them better. I think, though I'm not sure, that HV is gone completely... Game Crazy too. We lost all of them and we haven't had a BB for years.

Via Wiki:

How sad :(

No we don't have a Family Video. We used to have one called "Major Video" (idk if that was a national chain or not) and I loooved them. When we got BB, I refused to go. Mainly because Major Video had a computer where you just had to type in the video you were looking for and it told you 1) if it was available 2) where it was located. BB never had that! lol.

I just like that you can rent any movie for 5 days at HV, at BB all the new movies were 1-nighters. The only good thing BB had going for them were the $.99 movies.

Yeah I dislike BB's business model for a lot of reasons. I haven't rented a movie that wasn't from redbox for a long time. And I'll be a netflix person when I get back on my feet.

We rent everything on iTunes. We bought an Apple TV several years ago. It isn't the best technology out there since Apple treats it like the red haired stepchild, but all of our movies are stored on a hard drive, and we stream them to the Apple TV. We haven't owned a DVD player in over 3 years.

Well and now netflix streams through the Wii as well as through DVRs and Roku. Or my laptop comes with an HDMI connection for a TV. All sorts of fun ways to avoid renting things.

However DVD player still gets some use, the library's not quite to streaming video yet :D

Live-in is cute. He got the disks so that we can stream netflix on our Wii and our PS3, even though both of our TVs connect/can connect to PCs so we don't need all that.

Of course, that makes like, 40 ways to stream in our house. Just in case someone wanted to come over and be a "right now."