Sentences with phrase «year video rental»

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Videotape rental stores outnumber swimming pool contractors, for example, because people may rent several videos a week but only build a new pool every few years.

What goes around comes around; the maxim rings true in the case of Jim Gormley, a 25 - year veteran of the Canadian video rental business.

Apple competes with services like Vudu and Amazon's Prime in the market for digital video rentals and sales, with Apple's share of that market declining in recent years amid increased competition.

Blockbuster was bought by Dish Network (DISH) in 2011, but two years later the video - rental company said it close its remaining 300 U.S. stores.

By 2004, the film had grossed over $ 14 million in video sales and rentals — enough for Newmarket and writer / director Richard Kelly to release a new and expanded version of the film three years later - not on DVD but boldly back in the theatres.

Home video is an increasingly important, high margin business for the studios, though physical disc sales and rentals have collapsed in recent years.

The story follows a group of friends: Grover (Josh Hamilton) is shell - shocked that his girlfriend is leaving him to study in Prague; the acerbic Max (Chris Eigeman in a career - best performance) is a 50 - year old misanthrope in the body of a 20 - something undergrad; Otis (Carlos Jacott) works a dreary job at a video rental store and can't bring himself to actually read for his book club; and bartender Chet (Eric Stoltz), for whom alcohol is a literal philosophy.

He is also an accomplished former Manager at Bain & Company and was responsible for the online business of Japan's top bookstore and video rental company Tsutaya, where he helped grow its online membership by 250 % in only two years.

The movie industry is now facing the same, a smaller movie making outfit used to be able to recoup money from video / DVD rentals and sales, now people just download the movies they like for free — there were movies last year that grossed less than a thousand bucks in total.

According to Kobo's announcement, Aiki «was responsible for the online business of Japan's top bookstore and video rental company Tsutaya, where he helped grow its online membership by 250 % in only two years» — though his LinkedIn (s IN) profile says that was from 2002 to 2004, long before the rise of ebooks.

About 15 years ago, Blockbuster dominated the video rental market.

For example, a friend of mine who had to shutter his video rental business a couple of years ago felt so badly for his four staff members that he canvassed other local retail businesses to find potential openings that they could fill.

The beloved video rental chain, which began closing its stores in 2013, announced last week that it would shutter its North Pole, Alaska location, thanking patrons for their many years of support.

For the first half of the year, Vudu had 5.3 percent of the online rental - and - purchase movie market, behind only Apple's ITunes, with a 65.8 percent share, and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Corp.'s Zune Video Marketplace, with 16.2 percent.

Amazon sells its Prime service packaged with Instant Video and other benefits for $ 99 a year, while Netflix offers both streaming and DVD rentals on various tiers.