Remember the days…

…of going to a shop and renting a movie. I haven’t done it in ages! If I ever scan shelves of DVDs nowadays, I’m firmly in the buyer’s market. If I’m gonna rent something, it’s going to be online.

I should mention at this point that we have an online rental partnership with lovefilm.com. And I can assure that I am free of corporate bias or backhanders when I say that they are ace. Here’s the link from our site.

Anyway, back to the main point. I will lament the death of the video rental store. There’s a real sadness to watching Mos Def and Jack Black in Be Kind Rewind. The pair of video store employeses are forced to start filming their own versions of popular blockbusters in order to pull back the old clients.

Anyways, on the funny side, the demise of the rental shop has been brilliantly satirised here by The Onion. Give it a watch.