I used Blockbuster for movie rentals a couple of times. Total smurfing bulltrout. They charged me $5 for a 5-day rental of a DVD? I can understand wanting a video game for 5 days, but not a smurfing movie. I'm pretty sure everyone in the smurfing country rents a movie on either the day they want to watch it or the day before. Who needs a smurfing DVD for 5 days? If you want to watch it more than once, you'll just buy the smurfing thing and keep it for a lifetime. Just a terrible, terrible model.

Redbox also charges (charged, anyway) $1 a day for DVD rentals, but you could return it on the same day or the next day and ONLY PAY ONE DOLLAR. This is a much better system for newer movies.

And then, of course, there's Netflix. $8 a MONTH for unlimited streaming? Yeah, no contest on who wins THAT debate.

Blockbuster made poor business choices, and they deserved to go out of business. That's just the way the world works. They either had to get in the game with an online service to compete with Netflix (and Gamefly, I suppose, though I haven't rented a video game in ages) and still somehow manage to turn a profit, or just get out altogether. They didn't change with the times, and they paid the ultimate price for it.

Anyways, I grew up in a rural area where we didn't really have Blockbuster around, so the "small-town video store" was my only reasonable choice. Plus, they were more reasonably priced, and you could get older movies and games if you wanted to. Both of the small-town video stores I went to growing up were closed Sundays, so you went and rented your stuff Saturday morning and you could keep it an extra day for no extra price. It was AWESOME as a kid. Ah, memories.