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2. Video rental shop - Wikipedia

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   A video rental shop/store is a physical retail business that rents home videos such as movies, prerecorded TV shows, video game cartridges/discs and other media content. Typically, a rental shop conducts business with customers under conditions and terms agreed upon in a rental agreement or contract, which may be implied, explicit, or written ...

3. Hollywood Video - Wikipedia

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   Hollywood Entertainment Corp., [1] more commonly known as Hollywood Video, was an American video rental store chain. Founded in 1988, the chain was the largest direct competitor to Blockbuster Video until it was acquired by Movie Gallery in 2005. [2] It ceased operations in 2010, when Movie Gallery declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy. [3]

4. Erol's - Wikipedia

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   By 1985, Erol's was the country's largest privately owned videocassette rental company. [1] It was sold to Blockbuster Video for $40 million (~$82.5 million in 2023) in 1990. [ 2 ] At the time of the sale, Erol's was the nation's third largest video rental chain with 208 stores in five states and the District of Columbia. [ 3 ]

5. Blockbuster (retailer) - Wikipedia

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   Blockbuster obtained videos for little cost and kept 60% of the rental fee, paying the other 40% to the studio, and reporting rental information through the global media measurement and research company Rentrak. In addition to benefiting from a lower initial price, Blockbuster also capitalized on the fact that movies were generally not ...

6. Home video - Wikipedia

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   Many video rental stores also sell previously viewed movies and/or new unopened movies. In the 1980s, video rental stores rented films in both the VHS and Betamax formats, although most stores stopped using Betamax tapes when VHS won the format war late in the decade. The shift to home viewing radically changed revenue streams for film ...

7. Black Lodge no more? Famous Memphis venue/movie rental ... - AOL

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   Black Lodge, the remarkable Memphis movie rental library/ performance venue/ hipster hangout that has defied death as often as the sequelized monsters in the "Horror" section of its video aisles ...

8. Wherehouse Entertainment - Wikipedia

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   [6] [7] In 1984, the company began renting movies, or "video software" in 77 of its 126 stores, with a roll out into further stores expected. [8] Later that year, a copy of Money Hunt: The Mystery of the Missing Link was sold by a Wherehouse Entertainment at Sunset & Western in Los Angeles to Newt Deiter, who would go on to win the $100,000 ...

9. Renting a movie online is as simple as a few clicks - AOL

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   Popular digital movie retailers include Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Google Play, Vudu, and FandangoNow. With video rental chains a relic of the past, online streaming has become the new standard ...