Blockbuster is the next "bust"....
http://theportlander.com/2010/05/03/hollywood-video-to-shut-down-all-us-stores/
http://theportlander.com/2010/05/03/hollywood-video-to-shut-down-all-us-stores/
Hollywood Video closing all stores by June.
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I've never seen any free feature length porn on the internet. Perhaps these people are in it for the story?
Also many people are still afraid to buy anything on the internet at all, so maybe that combined with a taste for long-form porn would explain that woman's success.
I wonder how much is generational when it comes to buying the films. I mean, I still have the ingrained idea of going and buying a DVD fromt the store( the internet and downloading is something I still am getting used to-the Itunes stuff was revolutionary for me
) But a lot of the younger generation have grown up on "want it? Download it!" It's a part of their culture. I know people in all age ranges, and (and this is just people *I* know, not to paintbrush) I know some people in the "boomer" generation that DONT "get" computers, nor do they want to-so they are more likely, IMO, to continue to buy the DVD. The younger, like I said, tend to have more download ingrained in them. So what does that say over the next 2-3 decades, does streaming/downloading take more of a foothold? I would think that seems to be the trend.
No one manufactures blank VHS tapes anywhere in the world and retailers stopped carrying pre-made movies on VHS almost 10 years ago.
I've never seen any free feature length porn on the internet. Perhaps these people are in it for the story?
There are sites with feature length porn for free, just don't ask me how I know this or tell my girlfriend that I know this. There's also the torrent sites that are far more effective at eating away at the profitability of porn, same as Hollywood.
I remember several porn companies asked for a bailout from congress. It was a hilarious self promotion piece.
Yea, I should have clarified
I was trying to say that with DVD-that even after the companies stop making DVD's, the ones left are still going to be hanging around until they are eventually worn out, like the current VHS tapes. Around here you can still buy the odd VHS, but it's mostly VHS-DVD/HDD type machines. I assume these are sold under the legal idea of "I own the VHS copy of a film, I wish to convert it to a digital format/backup for safe keeping"? Just wonder how they dodge the whole copyright issue with the maufacture of those machines.
There is the technology called "macrovision" that is a federal requirement on VHS players to read and so the combo players still have to have them to prevent tapes with Macrovision encoding (the light to dark thing if you are old enough to remember) from being recorded.
Yep, we just destroyed what was left of our catalog and purged the item numbers from the system.
So I guess whatever is out there right on VHS is all that's left then. As they get used, broken, ect, it will diminish. I know the libraries in our area can't get DVD versions of their movies until the VHS versions get broken down, worn, ect.
I'm learning a lot from this thread, particularly from Sonny and you Gonzo-thank you for sharing!