Sentences with phrase «own video store»

Netflix killed the video store — and with Blockbuster and other rental chains in the rearview, broadcast TV and movie theaters are next on Reed Hastings» hit list.

Back in the days when there were video stores, imagine somebody had walked into one and shouted, «Darth is Luke's father!»

By upgrading the look of its interface, Netflix is nuking the last remnants of the video store era

But it seems unlikely that even an appearance by McConaughey, whose ads for Lincoln drew wide notice late last year, will be enough to save an independent video store.

Actor Matthew McConaughey is trying to help a struggling independent video store stay in business, and he's doing it with the help of late - night host Jimmy Kimmel.

Sarandos, 52, was an ambitious college dropout from Arizona who got his start running a chain of video stores and talked his way into Netflix soon after it was formed, joining in 2000 as vice president of content.

Rogers and Shaw are stressing the advantages of the service's curatorial approach, with suggested playlists supposedly mimicking the recommendations that video store clerks once provided.

When Skorman was launching his chain of video stores, called EmpireVideo, he planned on big success, but was strategic about who he would target.

To catapult Tony Maroni's from a regional to a national business, Riviera pursued a joint venture with Blockbuster video stores that would have allowed him to sell pizza at 1,500 - odd U.S. locations.

Ironically, the liquidation of Toys «R» Us won't mean the brand will disappear completely from the U.S. (much like there are still Blockbuster Video stores scattered here and there).

Once upon a time, however, such an activity required driving to your local video store and physically wandering the aisles, waiting for inspiration to strike.

A game store / video store that also rents out its games / videos for say a dollar a day.

The video stores and the music stores, you have a point, but the rest of them just got beaten by their traditional brick and mortar competitors.

Churches can urge phone companies and video stores to make it difficult for minors to use phone sex and X-rated films.

Most video stores in the U.S. and Canada do not openly display X-rated videos, or sell or rent them to children under seventeen.

The situation is similar in Canada, and many of the video stores are subsidiaries of U.S. companies.

The days of hopping into the car and driving to the video store to pick out a DVD to watch seem to be coming to a close for many people.

There is certainly a sense of nostalgia in going the video store route for many people, but the reasons to watch movies online just seem to keep piling up.:

As these technologies converge we are reminded of Shakespeare's description of a «brave new world that has such creatures in it»: video stores (allowing us to interact with program choice more vigorously), facsimile, conferencing, varied computer - based interactive systems, and off - site audio - video feeds, which permit the aggressive interactivity of world - wide news broadcasts.

(Citizens in a local community could use various levels of persuasion with the video store owner: consultation, letters to the local newspapers, appeals to the city council to make zoning changes, or stage actual public protests or a boycott.)

Go into the «adults only» corner of your local home video store.

Some come for the Thai video stores and textile shops, but most are looking for the food that the area is known for.

Dozens of restaurants, video stores, shops and markets cater to mostly Thai customers, providing a glimpse into a bustling world of immigrant culture in the West Coast's largest city.

Record stores are going the way of the video store.

In the pharmacy, the video store (they still exist!)

Kennedy is the granddaughter of the couple who own the video store, where the lobstermen play cribbage in the afternoons underneath a sign that says «Old Fart's, Daycare.»

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS and PALATINE — Two men stole DVDs from Hollywood Video stores in Palatine and Arlington Heights Monday.

Two men stole DVDs from Hollywood Video stores in Palatine and Arlington Heights Monday.

If he'd prefer movies, a gift certificate for a local video store will likely make him very happy.

Employees later identified photographs of two men linked to other video store thefts.

Police are searching for the driver of an SUV who struck and killed an 83 - year - old man as he crossed a street near his family's video store in the West Rogers Park neighborhood on the North Side.

Plans by restaurateurs Paul Tsouflidis and Kevin Lin to open their new PK Eats micro-food hall in North Buffalo garnered support from the Buffalo Planning Board, which recommended that the Common Council grant a special - use permit that would allow the reuse of a former Family Video store.

Honoree Robert Pinter, who successfully battled the NYPD's sting aimed at gay men in adult video stores.

Go rent a copy of Rambo V from the video store!)

Now all I have to do is stop going to the video store.

All are located in depressed semi-industrial areas where government housing mingles with liquor stores and adult video stores, and where prostitutes loiter near phone booths waiting for customers» calls.

For Hyperbole and its rivals the problem is how to market a product that lies somewhere between a film and a game — at home neither in cinemas and video stores nor in the arcades.

Take a stroll to the video store after dinner and rent a movie instead of watching your latest Netflix pick.

I even forced my mom to take me to the video store so I could rent his famous movie Pumping Iron.

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We were obsessed with the Batman cartoons and would regularly rent them from the video store within our local grocery store!

Today's easy access to pornography is a far cry from seamy video stores on the outskirts of town of yesteryear.

Lajeunesse found that 90 percent of pornography is gobbled up on the Internet, while 10 percent still comes from video stores.

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I am a firm believer in still renting movies at your local video store.

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Direct - to - video zombie films will devour the walls of the few video stores left in existence.

This well - crafted documentary puts together a fitting tribute to Jerry Harvey, who was head of programming at Z Channel, an independent groundbreaking Pay TV station founded in 1974 (before there were video stores or HBO).

If you see this in your local video stores - rent it!