Blockbuster To Close Remaining US Locations 419
UnknowingFool writes "Blockbuster announced that it will close its remaining 300 U.S. locations by January and discontinue the DVD by mail service. Before being bought out by Dish, the chain was slowly closing locations. Dish's CEO said, 'This is not an easy decision, yet consumer demand is clearly moving to digital distribution of video entertainment.' From an all-time high of 9,000 locations in 2004, the chain has fallen on hard times and had emerged from bankruptcy in 2011."
Wait, what? (Score:5, Funny)
Blockbuster still exists?
About time (Score:5, Funny)
Re:About time (Score:5, Funny)
The courier was afraid to go into the store. He had a VHS that was late.
I got a nice restaurant ... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:About time (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah, one day you can tell your grandkids about what it was like to get DVD/blu-ray extra features like commentary tracks and making-of featurettes, and what it was like to watch a movie without seeing "Buffering" messages and heavy compression artifacts. Yep, streaming is so superior to those ancient physical discs alright.
Re:Wait, what? (Score:4, Funny)
Gaaaah!
[sound of head literally exploding]
Re:I got a nice restaurant ... (Score:4, Funny)
An entire archeological strata made up of nothing but ATM cards, and above it... nothing"
Re:Wait, what? (Score:4, Funny)
[spoiler] In the climax of the movie our hero returns the movie the next day and purchases a soda and bag of pretzels from the adjacent vending machines to celebrate the $2 he just saved. [/spoiler]