Blockbuster Rental store: May ye finally find peace

I still have an 8 track player!

Frank? Do you still use it? Do you still buy the cassettes on ... Ebay perhaps? Also do the cassettes wear down like cassette tapes (Compact Cassette or Musicassette) or do they relatively sound as good now as they did when they were new?

Nope...and I do not use the two cassette players either (actually, occasionally I do use one)...and last week, Nancy and I had to use a VCR to look over some tapes that we want to transfer to CD or DVD (I don't know which!). The experience was arduous, but we got some tapes that we want transfered...and actually had one done. (It showed us playing with some cats of long ago!)

But I guess some stuff just does not get thrown out when you have a basement storage the size of the one I have.

I like and use DVDs and Blu-Rays. But I buy from Amazon as opposed to renting.

I buy from Amazon as well but I have to see the movie before I buy a copy, hence I either see it at the movie theater, rent it from a streaming service or get a disc at a kiosk, or watch it free when it comes out for legally free streaming.

I have ten VHS tapes left, and, since I gave away my sony tv-vcr when I left California, I've no means to play them. Maybe one sunny day I'll get an antique VCR.

Ital films:
We All Loved Each Other So Much by Ettore Scola
Love and Anarchy, Lina Wertmuller
Three Brothers, Francesco Rosi
Besieged, Bernardo Bertolucci

Films by loved ones/friends:
Street Asylum, written by my ex, once reviewed as a cult favorite of sorts, or possibly the worst movie ever. Fun though, for us.
Kerouac, a documentary/NYer films, by Richie Lerner, friend of a friend.
(I wish I had this one) Running Scared, Paul Glickler, friend of husband and mine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_Scared_(1980_film)

stuffed taped off of tv shows -
Art of the Western World, Michael Wood narrating
Carlos Fuentes - Series (don't remember if it was one show or more than one - might have been the one with Bill Moyers)
Pavarotti in Hyde Park
and finally, a mystery video, titled Jo's Favorite by my ex

When I got a DVD player, I kept my VCR installed. I have too many tapes to replace them with discs. Blockbuster - the stores lasted longer than I expected.

We rent DVDs from Netflix religiously seeing as how they only offer a small fraction of their movies for streaming.

They should pay me for having to polish all of the skipping discs that they send to us, damn it.

DVDs suck that way.

http://honestslogans.com/

Just seen this.

Several thousand years ago, my local Blockbusters at that time used to be in a nice little town called Bushey.
I was in there one night, browsing the top shelf, when I witnessed a heated discussion between Tom Cruise (yes, I'm serious) and the cashier, who wouldn't let him hire a film without identification.

He'd done Top Gun by then and was mega famous, but the cashier said rules were rules. No I D, no video.

While I was watching this, another customer snaffled the last remaining Debbie Does Dallas.

Blockbuster adjacent:

Slightly sad on this one. The Redbox model was amazing for the time. We would rent a couple of movies for the kids on road trips, turn them in at our destination, rent a couple more for the return trip. The idea that you could walk up to a machine, find a movie, then return it to any other machine was a parenting dream come true for me.

I never knew that you could return discs to other locations (and not from their originating Red Boxes).