Video Store to Streaming: The Evolution of Home Movie

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go there. And today we're going to be talking

about the evolution of renting movies from video

stores to online media consumption and more.

We're also going to explore the death of the

brick -and -mortar video stores. The way that

we're gonna do this is we're each gonna go we're

each gonna give like a little bit of a story

or we're just gonna have a discussion really

in this first part about you know growing up

as kids and just you know either getting to go

to the video store or You know having your parents

come home with with new movies every couple of

nights or whatever. It was I got really good

stories. Oh Lord For me, going to the video store

was just like going to the movie theater. It

was an experience in the 80s. It was one of those

things where, you know, say I got a great report

card or whatever, I would get to go to the video

store and pick out three movies. You know, something

like that. And I do remember the two movies in

the one video store that we always used to rent

from. It was a local store in Massachusetts called

Adventure in Video. The two movies we would always

rent after they came out. I believe it was late

86, early 87. Two movies that I ended up watching

so many times that the VHS tapes broke was Transformers

the Movie and He -Man and She -Writer the Secret

of the Sword. I had my mom rent those so many

times that the actual VHS tapes wore out. They

wore out? They wore out. They broke. That isn't

good. You're not supposed to do that to your

stuff, sir. Well, I rented them so many times

and watched them so many times, yeah. Well then.

What about you, Steve? Um... As far as first

experience with video forms, I used to have a

crap load of VHS tapes between like Ninja Turtles

and all different shows similar to that back

in the day. Which I believe my mom still has

at her house with their VHS, VCR. I don't have

a VCR anymore. Let's take a trip down memory

lane and a little trivia. Can either of you tell

me what VCR stands for? Video cassette recorder?

Alright, I was just asking. Now, I don't actually

know this, but I remember beta tapes. What the

hell did beta stand for? Bastardized equipment

that ass flopped. Okay, there you go. There you

go. I actually I don't think it actually had

I don't think it was an acronym for anything

Yeah, yeah Yeah But just What about you Paul?

What was your experience growing up? Well, here's

here's the wonderful thing This is where I was

saying that I got some good stories because my

grandparents my mom's parents actually owned

a video store um up till Want to say the mid

mid to late 90s So I was I was always preppy

to any time and it was even still true to this

day Video stores would always get new releases

ahead of the actual release date so For example,

you know if they were still around on Transformers

dark in the moon and say it's released tomorrow

Video stores usually have it a week or so before

the actual release date for the movies. So I

would always, my mom would always bring, you

know, because I was too young and she worked

at the video store with my grandparents, she

would always bring home random movies and things

of that nature and one of the most exciting times

was growing up, obviously transformer fan that

I am, I never, at that time I don't think I was

old enough to really... Know what was going on

or anything? I don't remember seeing Transformers

in the movie theater or even know that they were

making a Transformers movie But she brought it

home and she she's like come here. We got something.

I want you to watch I'm like, okay put it down

and stuck it in the VCR player we sat there and

As it as it started and when the opening scene

just popped up I was like, oh my god and it was

like this most exciting thing in the world because

it was something new from Transformers and We

would always, my sister and I, on weekends, we

would always go there because, like I said, my

mom would work and she would take us with her

to work. And my grandpa's video store was also

a little tiny appliance store and he would always

sell VCRs or TVs and things like that. So we

would always randomly just walk throughout the

video store and some of our fondest memories,

my sister and I, would be picking movies off

of the shelf. Cheesy 80 movies, you know on gotcha

Breakfast club. I mean just random random movies

We would just pick up and we put him in the VCR

in my grandparents video store and sit there

and on weekends Just watch a whole bunch of movies.

That's Some of the some of my most fun times

when I was a kid Very awesome. Very awesome.

Yeah, we ended up switching to a bunch of different

video stores. We actually There's another video

store at Massachusetts that we that was local

to the area. I Think I've always Reset at the

time from now from back then to now I had always

resisted blockbuster blockbuster to me back in

the 80s was the devil Yeah, they still are I

have never really cared for blockbuster The video

stores here in Louisville, the other ones were

like Movie Gallery and Hollywood Video and you

know, stuff like that. And I preferred those

over Blockbuster. Yeah, you know, I mean, I remember,

you know, I mean, speaking of the whole thing,

one of their slogans, Blockbusters, was it was

always, wow, what a different Blockbuster video.

I remember that jingle from when they first started

and they started around the time that my... I

want to say it was around the same time that

my grandpa was considering selling the video

store because they were the first kind of large

chain and he was smart. Back then I remember

my grandpa saying that small mom and pop video

stores are going to be gone because of Blockbuster.

So... I naturally hated Blockbuster because I'm

like, they're the ones that are going to put

my grandparents out of business. It was really

bad. Yeah, it was founded in 1985. Yeah, yeah.

But now I find it amusing because now here we

are several years later and they're going out

of business because of something, another technology

that's come around that I'm sure we'll get to

later on. Yep, and it makes me happy. Yeah. Yeah,

according to according to Wikipedia. They are

now a subsidiary of Dish Network Yeah, this network

bought them on what in 2010 I think yeah, they

bought them last and then they and yeah Yeah,

and I think they paid like a very little amount

for it Well, yeah exactly, but they were they're

closing them down closing a bunch of them down

and I think it said I think I remember hearing

that they're only going to keep like 400 nationwide

open or something like that. Yeah, I think I

heard something like that. Which I mean, as things

like Netflix and Redbox and things of that nature

come around and are more prevalent, I'm sure

that number will even dwindle down. Oh, yeah.

But I remember I remember Blockbuster when Netflix

kind of first started doing their thing. I remember

Blockbuster having a similar thing with that

which I always thought was kind of a good idea

because you could sign up for like their Blockbuster

plan or whatever and you can get a movie sent

to you from them much like Netflix but you can

then take it to the actual Blockbuster store

and trade it out for another movie which I thought

was a neat idea that's something that Redbox

kind of picked up on and kind of went along with

and Netflix and you know Red box, they're just,

yeah, you know. They're just what? Red box, I

think, is just a better overall system, I suppose.

I mean, there's hardly any overhead. I mean,

you don't have to, you have a box, and it's there.

You don't have to worry about anything. So, I

don't know, I like it. Even though I don't actually

have it, I do have Netflix. Steve, any other

stories about watching stuff as a kid? Not necessarily

as a kid, but my wife used to work for Blockbuster.

Oh, really? Years ago. And the thing we loved

was we got movies before they came out, sometimes

as much as two to three weeks. Yeah. And so we

would watch everything that we wanted. She'd

get six free rentals a week, I believe. And pretty

much she hated the whole concept of how much

everything cost there and because they were always

screwing her over because they treated their

employees like shit. She would deflect people

to family video where they could save over two

times the amount of money. Yep. And yeah, so...

We've never actually used Blockbuster since we

pretty much go to family video. We're gonna actually

go to a video store Yeah Or we use red box blue

box if we've got coupons for it, and then we

of course have Netflix Yeah with with Blockbuster

specifically And I'm sure this is this has become

like a Blockbuster No, I mean, not really, but

any major chain video store, Blockbuster, Hollywood

Video, Movie Gallery, any of the big major chains

that used to be everywhere. Every time I would

go in there. The new release rentals would be

anywhere from $4 .02 to $5 .99. It just depended

on how new it was. If it was six months old,

if it was like a week old, it just depended.

So, you know, say you're a family of four, you

want to get, you know, two or three movies apiece.

Say they're five bucks each. That's 15 bucks

right there for just movies. And of course, say

you have your kids with you. Kids are gonna be

like, oh, I want candy, I want candy, I want

candy. Going to blockbuster or any of the major

video chains It's almost just like going to the

movie theaters because you're paying so much

because all of the candy and everything else

Was so expensive just as expensive in blockbuster

and Hollywood video as it was at the actual movie

theater And that was I mean that was always something

that did annoy me because I mean, I don't know

if you guys know or if anybody else knows but

the majority of money that is made by a movie

theater is made through the concession stands.

So they have to pay a lot of money to get a movie

to be able to show it in their theater. So all

their money that they make to pay their employees

and all that stuff comes from concessions. So

it never really bugged me too much that a big

old thing of soda cost you $6 or whatever. But

then yeah, like you said, you walk into a regular

movie store and you're paying $3 or $4 for a

20 ounce soda. I'm like, what? And that always

bugs me. Yeah. Kind of switching gears a little

bit. I want to switch to online, like iTunes

and Amazon and stuff like that. Not really specifically

Netflix. We'll talk about that a little bit later.

But for me, the first two places I look if it's

not on Netflix or if I can't get it from Redbox

is iTunes or Amazon. Sometimes I will just rent

movies through iTunes just because it's just,

you know, if it's something I want to watch right

then and there and it's just that easy, I'll

do that. Amazon, the same thing. If iTunes doesn't

have it, I'll go to Amazon. There's only a few

movies, actually there's probably more than a

few, but there's only been a number of movies

over the years that I've actually bought and

actually have in my iTunes library. Most of the

stuff I just rent. But with Redbox getting a

lot of the new releases sometimes, I would much

rather pay $1 .06 than $3 .17 after tax. I would

rather pay $1 .06 to Redbox than $3 .17 to iTunes

or Amazon. And the greatest thing about Redbox

now is if you sign up on their website and you

have your account there, You can pick and choose

your movies and check out Online and they'll

just say hey, you know take this credit You know

take the credit card you use or whatever go to

the kiosk and just pick them up You don't even

have to stand there at the at the kiosk saying.

Oh, I wonder let's see Law dogs and Slumdog millionaire,

you know, I mean, you don't have to stand there

at the kiosk and choose what movie you want Steve,

what do you think about like the online stuff

like iTunes and Amazon and stuff like that? Do

you even use that kind of stuff? My personal

view on it is I dislike renting a movie online

Because I feel like I'm throwing my money away.

I like to have the physical disc in front of

me I don't want to sit there watching on my PC.

Yeah Which is why I use Netflix Because I have

a blu -ray player that streams directly to my

TV. Yeah Yeah, see I mean I I kind of agree if

you know if you're gonna pay Now now I do have

a couple TV series that I'll subscribe to through

either iTunes or Amazon but in terms of movies

if I'm gonna buy a movie or If I want to watch

a movie, I'm just gonna buy it As opposed to

renting it. I mean If you pay I mean depending

on what it is if it's a new release you can rent

a movie for $2 .99 or whatever on iTunes or you

can buy the movie for $9 .99 on iTunes So I have

a limited number of those ones on there I like

having them just in case I'm traveling somewhere

and I can put them on my iPhone and have something

to watch but Even at that now with Netflix and

I'm new to the whole Netflix thing I just only

recently signed up to it But I'm using the hell

out of it. My wife is downstairs right now watching

Star Trek Voyager on Netflix. And I have the

Netflix app on my iPhone, so every now and then

I'll be laying in bed. I'll put on an episode

of King of the Hill, and I'll watch that while

I'm laying in bed, getting ready to fall asleep.

So it's a wonderful thing. I don't get the discs

through Netflix, because like Steve, I just stream

it through my TV. Specifically through my my

360. I have a blu -ray player, but I just I don't

know why I do it in my 360 Yes, I don't know

but I mean, I think it's I think it's good. I

like I said I have cartoons my Transformers prime

I get through iTunes I get the new Thundercats

through Amazon which actually kind of bugs me

because like the day that I signed up for through

Amazon the next day they released it on iTunes

and Oh, did they? Yeah, the thing that sucks

about that is you can't watch Amazon video through

your iTunes. I download them and I have them,

but I can't put them into my iTunes, so I can't

actually put them on my actual iPhone or anything

like that. It annoys me a little bit with that,

but like I said, that was literally the next

day after I signed up for it. They released it

in iTunes. I'm like, no, that sucks. Yeah, I

was actually because I had bought I had bought

for I just bought the I bought the third episode

from from Amazon and Because it was on iTunes

yet. I'm like why isn't it on iTunes yet? Damn

it and now that it is like oh, yeah I'll also

be getting that season pass when it and like

I mean the whole I mean you're having my movies

and stuff on there It doesn't bug me quite as

much and I think I always told you this Mike

that You would watch the Transformers Prime stuff

on YouTube or something. I'd rather watch it

in HD on my big screen TV. With my iPhone I have

the adapter so I can plug my iPhone right into

my TV and I can watch movies and TV shows that

I put on my iPhone. I can watch it on my regular

television. The only issue I have with the iTunes

stuff for Transformers Prime and that kind of

stuff Even even the standard definition not even

the high definition in the standard definition

the season passes for cartoons The standard definition

is like $39 .99 the high def is $49 .99 for one

season which is gonna be in Transformers Prime's

case 26 episodes 50 bucks for 26 episodes. That's

a little much. Yeah I agree. I mean that I mean

that that that's a little much, but I see what

you're saying about that and I do you know if

you know the hub would actually have their channel

on a cable package I could I have I have a higher

cable package but my arm I have time Warner cable

they don't even offer the hub in HD so not even

not I mean I I never I never catch the episodes

on TV but even if I did they want to be in HD

and I like watching them in HD so I have the

option with iTunes to get them in HD, and then

I can put them on my TV, which is designed for

that, and I can actually enjoy it a little bit

more. What about you, Steve, as far as Redbox?

Have you really ever tried using, do you use

Redbox at all? Actually, I use it quite frequently.

I'm going to use it a lot more, too granted,

because at the end of the month, Netflix is charging

Almost double what they charge now for the streaming

and the one disc out at a time Right. No, they're

not no. Yeah, they are if you're If you're an

existing customer that the streaming stays if

you That's what I'm getting at if you have the

one disc at a time and streaming right now Unless

you drop see you have the you you have both you

have the streaming and the D Yeah, see see and

I'm gonna be at the end of the month getting

rid of the one disc at a time because I only

get two discs a week and I can go to Netflix

or not Netflix Redbox and get what I want. Yeah

My my when I first heard about Netflix It was

before they had the online streaming it was DVDs

by the mail it's the same thing with like Gamefly

and Blockbuster and Blockbuster and all of a

sudden D like like Paul said earlier Blockbuster

at least if you got the DVD by the mail you could

take it into the store to exchange it That's

great, but Netflix DVDs through the mail. It

just makes no sense to me I understand some people

don't like to watch stuff on their computer But

as Paul said and as Steve said before, Netflix

has apps and streaming just like Apple and iTunes

does. So you could stream it to your phone, you

could stream it to your television, you could

stream it other places. You don't have to sit

at your computer. But for me, because I don't

have that capability at this moment, I sit here

and I watch stuff on my computer. That's just

the way I do it. i just don't understand the

netflix dvd by the mail and the thing about as

steve mentioned the thing about the dvd at a

time i read a news article that that cost goes

up say you want it's like i said a while ago

about you know going to the video store getting

two or three movies for five days uh... say you

want to do that for netflix yeah say you want

to do that for netflix say you want to get three

movies for one night Each movie with with this

new DVD pricing plan that they have each movie

is gonna cost you Additional money so say you

have out four movies. That's probably gonna cost

you like 20 bucks That's stupid it is gonna be

$16 for one disc at a time and streaming and

then it goes up to like 24 or a 30 bucks for

three discs out at a time and streaming Which

is no different than blockbusters, but you get

like two out of time and no streaming so I mean

I guess it's kind of better but The amount of

time you have to wait to get the new releases

on Netflix is Almost not worth getting them unless

you're getting the old releases that you have

a hard time with and even then when you get the

the disk by mail half the time there and especially

anymore, they're either scratched cracked or

It's just unwatchable. Yep. Yeah, that was something

that always kind of worried me. I mean, one of

the biggest things for going towards this whole

DVD by mail thing was, you know, the ploy, I

suppose, was rep movies, keep them as long as

you want. There's no late fees, blah, blah, blah,

blah, blah. And that's all well and good. But

I mean, I mean, like I said, the blockbuster

thing was a little bit better because at least

you could return those right there and. get something

new when you're done with it. You know, with

the whole Netflix, it's like, okay, I watched

the movie, now I gotta return it, now I gotta

wait a couple days for something else that I

want. And it was, so when the whole red box thing

came around, I was like, that's kinda like a

merger of the best ideas. And that's why I've

always said that Netflix and all that stuff,

if Netflix doesn't completely get rid of their

whole DVD thing and just go towards the streaming

thing, They'll be put out of business by red

box in no time I Can see that but at the same

time not really just because Netflix The way

they do their whole thing I mean blockbuster

just had everything kind of ass backwards anyway,

and then they jumped too late in the game But

I think this is gonna hurt Netflix having raised

the prices just so drastically Yeah, that'll

probably hurt more. Yeah And I think more people

will end up going back to their family videos

or their blockbusters, which are now dropping

their prices on everything. And then the Redbox,

Bluebox, whatever. I mean, Redbox is great for

the movies that I just don't initially care about.

Specifically, I can think of, like when Wolverine

came out, X -Men Origins, I just... Didn't care

enough to even see in the theater. I didn't care

enough to see it You know when it first came

out I saw it like I don't know a month two months

after and I just went to red box and I said Oh,

hey, cool. There you go a dollar. That's it And

the greatest thing about the red box stuff is

There's kiosks everywhere for the most part.

I mean unless you live in the middle of freaking

nowhere I'm sure there's at least two red box

kiosks by almost anyone But even in the middle

of nowhere, that middle of nowhere, somewhere

close to it, had a Walmart that probably has

a red box. True. Very, very true. And I found

Speedways have blue boxes, generally. What's

blue box? It's Blockbuster's red box. Okay. Switching

over to Netflix, specifically for me, for instance,

I don't watch Netflix for movies. I watch Netflix

for old TV shows and cartoons. I mean, like I

said, I'm new to the whole Netflix thing. I've

watched a couple that I don't have. Now, see,

another thing is I'm a movie buyer. I like, when

a movie comes out, I like going out and I like

buying the movie. I mean, whether it be through

Amazon where I pre -order the movies so that

when it comes out, I have it. I mean, usually,

If a movie comes out that I'm really excited

about, even older ones, I'll go to a store and

I'll buy it. So, Netflix, I'll watch, I just

watched the Jetsons movie on Netflix last night

because I don't have that movie. And I was flipping

through and it's got like recommended selections.

And I saw that and I'm like, oh my God, I haven't

seen that forever. So I sat there and I watched

it last night and it's... It's some movies don't

hold up as well as they did as a kid um But you

know I mean every now and then I'll watch a movie

through it, but uh I agree with you to a certain

extent Paul I Was very much a DVD buyer mostly

TV shows on DVD and I'd also buy movies as well

At you know last year. I had to end up selling

my entire DVD collection I had like I don't know

over 500 DVDs that I had to sell off So I mean

at this point. I don't want to have to start

that collection again So I would much rather

wait until it's on Netflix or until It shows

up in iTunes or something like that, so That's

a smart way of doing it. Yeah Yep, yep um...

and the death of the video store the brick -and

-mortar stores i mean we have you know the radio

star it's it's here netflix killed the video

store yeah yeah i mean honestly you know with

services like netflix and red box um... there's

no need i mean red box essentially is your video

store i mean As I said before, if you sign up

for their website, you have an account, you know,

you have your credit card attached to the account

and that's that. You go through, you pick what

selections you want. Like if, say if you want

to watch two movies in one night, you just pick

them. You check out online, you go to the, you

know, you either drive or you, like in my case,

I have a kiosk that's like right across the street

from my apartment building. So just walk across

the street, pick it up and walk home. You know,

that's it. You lazy fuck. What? I'm walking?

How the hell can you call me a lazy fuck when

I'm walking across the street? Because most people

don't actually walk across the street, they drive.

Right, exactly. How dare you walk? Get in your

damn car. He doesn't have a car. It's a good

thing I don't have a car because me driving,

oh my god, people would not want... If you guys

saw how I drive with my feet for speed... If

you guys saw like I drive in Need for Speed or

Grand Theft Auto, you would not want me on the

road. I would end up driving through a building

before I would actually drive correctly. Mike's

theme song would be let the body sit the floor

while he's driving. That would be awesome. That

would be awesome. That is so right. Now do you

guys think, Steve, do you think that... Blockbuster

or any video store chain can make some sort of

comeback I It's hard to say the ones that are

already pretty much established I think that

they'll do decent like family videos expanding

But they also have cheap prices and they have

incentives for people that you know don't have

time to go like for instance every probably two

three months I get a phone call from Various

family videos that I've had accounts at because

they aren't linked together and they give you

like two weeks of half off rentals and they give

you one new release. But they also have different

incentives on different days, whereas Blockbuster

raves your eyes out for new releases and certain

old releases are 99 cents. But most of the stuff

is still pretty much full price, which is close

to five dollars. And I think I see Blockbuster

more so failing in ones that are high priced.

and some of the smaller ones too, just because

Netflix, Redbox are pretty much dominating. Yes,

they are. I think at some point in time brick

and mortar video stores are going to be gone.

And I honestly can see it happening within, say,

the next five years. Only because it's already

happened now when I say yeah, but I mean There

are still you know video stores that you can

go to you got to find them, but You know it's

it's it's slowly changing I I think within the

next five years They'll pretty much be gone,

and it'll be absolutely dominated, but now that's

not to say that you know blockbuster won't evolve

into a I don't know what would you call it Steve

blue box or whatever it is yeah? You know, I

mean, I think companies like that will evolve

into something, but brick and mortar stores I

think are gonna be gone. Mostly because streaming

videos is still a fairly, well not too new, but

it's still fairly new -ish. And I think more

people will jump on that bandwagon and it'll

slowly kind of replace any kind of video renting.

Whether it be, you know, blue box or red box

or whatever the case may be, I think streaming

is going to be the thing of the future. Yes,

it most likely will be. I have seen the future.

You are not in it. Mike. Asshole. That's funny.

Oh lord. Alright, so do we have anything else

we want to talk about for this one? Your mama.

Kind of hit everything. Your mama. Steve. Boom,

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about your online presence, your YouTube, your

Twitter, your Facebook, your... My presence,

huh? Yes. Well, anybody who is interested, they

can watch various video reviews of yours truly

at youtube .com slash Octobotomus. Or you could

follow me on Twitter, and that's twitter .com

slash Octobotomus. My Facebook... Don't even

actually know what my Facebook is I think the

page is facebook .com slash team bottom us That

that sounds right. We're just gonna. We're gonna

go with that Or or if you just go to my YouTube

On the main channel. I have all the links there

so you can you can stalk me in whatever way is

Pleasurable to your yeah, whatever you like you

may do, but you're not allowed to have my home

address because that's really creepy I've got

it, but anyway. Visit the website, geekcastradio

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Jesus For now I am TFG one Mike with a skin Megatron

Phillips Thank you for listening, until next

time. He's like all dejected and shit. Like that.

Well that sounds a whole lot better, like, this

is Steve Megatron Phillips. I'm like, you know,

I'm Octobotamus. From the Cybernet Space Cube.

Oh god no.