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In the 1980s, video rental stores rented VHS and Betamax tapes of movies; however, 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. In the late 2000s, stores began selling and renting Blu-ray discs, a format ...
The first Suncoast store opened in Roseville, Minnesota, in 1986 as Paramount Pictures. This was a joint venture between the Paramount movie studio and Musicland, which at the time was one of the largest music and video retailers in the United States. Once Paramount pulled out of the joint venture, Musicland changed the store’s name to ...
Blockbuster [5] or Blockbuster Video was an American multimedia brand which 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]
A pair of VHS aficionados have transformed their basements into their own private mom-and-pop video rental shops -- with thousands of tapes, neon lights and more.
Media Play was a chain of retail stores founded in 1992 by Musicland that sold VHS, DVDs, laserdiscs, music, electronics, toys, video games, anime, books, and board games similar to Hastings Entertainment, 2nd and Charles, and Half Price Books. Each store contained full book, movie, music, and video game sections under one roof.
On January 5, 2021, the company announced all remaining 250 stores would close, [18] [19] and the chain would become an online web-store only. The online store offered new and used video sales along with Family Video branded merchandise such as t-shirts, coffee mugs and tumblers, hats, gym bags, key chains, water bottles, and so on. [ 20 ]
On sites like eBay and LoveAntiques, collectible VHS tapes are valued at upwards of nearly $10,000 ... Yes, you can still visit Blockbuster stores today
The first FYE store opened in 1993 at the Trumbull Mall in Trumbull, Connecticut. [4] [5] A second opened in 1995 at Eastview Mall in Victor, New York, and a third at Colonie Center in Colonie, New York in 1997. [6] In 2001, Trans World unified its other mall-based stores under the "f.y.e." name after buying out Camelot Music.