Blockbusted! Movie rentals of today—and tomorrow

LincLinc OwnerDetroit Icrontian
edited June 2006 in Science & Tech
Video stores are outdated and video-on-demand has a lot of growing up to do. Ars goes deep inside the movie rental business to show you what you can have now and what you still can't get.
I brought a list of 70 movies to two local stores and started checking titles off. It was a somewhat eclectic mix of Orbiting HQ favorites, quality anime, Oscar winners of various kinds, and a few international titles for that musky French spice. The results were downright depressing. Sure, they both had Kentucky Fried Movie and Fight Club. One store even carried a copy of Princess Bride, but neither had Weird Al's UHF, recent Oscar nominee Evil, or any of the anime titles. Not Noir, not Fullmetal Alchemist, not even Akira for crying out loud.
Source: Ars Technica
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