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In the 1980s, video rental stores rented VHS and Betamax tapes of movies, although most stores dropped Betamax tapes when VHS won the format war late in the decade. In the 2000s, video rental stores began renting DVDs , a digital format with higher resolution than VHS.
After getting stuck with a large inventory of excess video movies in the late 1970s, Charles got the idea of creating the Video Movie Club in Springfield, Illinois in 1978. The club originally charged a $25 membership fee and $5 rental fee. [3] The chain was later renamed Video Movies Inc. by the 1980s before becoming Family Video. [4]
Blockbuster [5] (formerly called Blockbuster Video) is an American multimedia brand.The business was founded by David Cook in 1985 as a single home video rental shop, but later became a public store chain featuring video game rentals, DVD-by-mail, streaming, video on demand, and cinema theater. [6]
This series explores aspects of America that may soon be just a memory -- some to be missed, some gladly left behind. From the least impactful to the most, here are 25 bits of vanishing America. I ...
Erol's Inc. was a video rental and electronic sales and repair company founded in 1963, which included video rental in 1980. 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]
MovieQuik, often misreported in the news as Movie Quik, was a VHS video and VCR rental service offered inside 7-Eleven stores, a division of Southland Corporation, based in the United States and provided by MovieQuik Systems, another fully owned division of Southland during the late 1980s.
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 ...
Years ago, when movie rental stores started to close their doors, it became pretty clear that most of us would never enter a Blockbuster Video again. Fast-forward to 2022, and there appears to be ...