Originally posted by: C3PX
I was pretty pissed when rental places started getting rid of their massive VHS collections. I used to love to go into Hastings and search through the vast amounts of old movies on VHS that only cost $0.99 to rent. Seemed there was hardly a movie they did not have, since everyone has gone all out DVD there are a lot of movies that are impossible to find, most rental stores don't carry older and more obscure films even if they are on DVD, and even if you get lucky enough to find it on DVD it is going to cost you more than a buck to rent it. The days of renting old and obscure films for a buck have ended. Hell, the days of renting any movie for a buck aren't looking so good, I know of a few places but they not only suffer from a crappy selection, but their discs are so scratched up you're lucky if you get to watch the whole thing from beginning to end without having to skip a large section due to a scratch.
So yes, I am one of those who complained about the death of the VHS. Those of us who are suckers for boring old movies are left with little else to turn to than our DVRs, and the late night TV listings.
I was pretty pissed when rental places started getting rid of their massive VHS collections. I used to love to go into Hastings and search through the vast amounts of old movies on VHS that only cost $0.99 to rent. Seemed there was hardly a movie they did not have, since everyone has gone all out DVD there are a lot of movies that are impossible to find, most rental stores don't carry older and more obscure films even if they are on DVD, and even if you get lucky enough to find it on DVD it is going to cost you more than a buck to rent it. The days of renting old and obscure films for a buck have ended. Hell, the days of renting any movie for a buck aren't looking so good, I know of a few places but they not only suffer from a crappy selection, but their discs are so scratched up you're lucky if you get to watch the whole thing from beginning to end without having to skip a large section due to a scratch.
So yes, I am one of those who complained about the death of the VHS. Those of us who are suckers for boring old movies are left with little else to turn to than our DVRs, and the late night TV listings.
Doesn't Netflix have a pretty sizeable library? And if you rented the maximum number of DVDs per month, I'm sure the cost would be under a dollar per movie. I don't know if they have any of the old classics, but I've always heard that if you can't find it elsewhere, Netflix probably has it.