Rogers closing 40 per cent of its video stores

The video rental industry was started by the independant retailer and will long continue with the independant retailer. Indie owners can turn on a dime and make changes to their business within hours, whereas the chain stores had to have high paid execs make poor decisions which led to their ultimate demise. Netflix will eventually die in Canada because of poor content. I've owned my video store for 25 years and business has never been better! The community video store will be around for many years as long as the studios continue to supply them with top product.

Rob
said

On Demand did signicant damage to rental stores. My family has never stepped into a BlockBuster or Rogers in years because they just order whatever they would like to watch through the television.

Marc
said

With our stupid copyright laws and the CRTC, Netflix isn't to blame for this. Netflix in Canada isn't worth the monthly fee since all it has is pure trash with the occasional decent movie. Put the blame on something else, but Netflix? No way.

Mark
said

As a former employee of Blockbuster, and independent video stores prior to that, it still staggers me to think that Movie Theatres & Book Stores have survived, where Video & Music stores have not! Blame the internet, but ISP's could have modified that! Shame that Video stores are closing, what with so many people adopting Blu-ray for their elaborate 'Home Theatres' not to mention all of those Video Game consoles, that people are going to have to shell out $60-$70 to 'try' a game they end up not liking!!??

Don
said

You can rent current release DVD's from a Kiosk in Safeway for $1.78 a day if you want the hard copy--so manning a store seems a little uneconomic. I'm surprised Rogers has lasted so long.

susie-q
said

Ihave only a vcr. I have no phone. I have no tv at the moment cause I have no money to buy that $60.00 thing. All I have is the internet. I don"t have a credit card so twitter & facebk. are out. I have nothing to download anything on to. Thank god for Wall-Mart & their $5.00 & $10.00 & $19.00 stuff. My x has a dvd player. I use it. I can also use my Son's machine. Bye-Bye from susie-q. Merry Xmas. H.N. Year.

Rob in Waterloo
said

Most of Netflix's movie stream at 1080p if you want them too (same as blue ray) and you can buy hi res digital copy on lots of sites . A lot of independent ISPs don't have a bandwidth cap. I haven't rented a movie in years, get with the times people...

Louis - Calgary
said

I only rent blu-rays so the on demand and streaming options do not interest me because of their quality isn't even close to blu-ray. With the growth in blu-ray and the disappearance of Blockbuster and Rogers I would think there has to be an opportunity for independents to specialize in blu-ray rentals and sales.

Nick in Kanata
said

You can never replace the quality of video with on demand services or streaming services. Our ISP's limit our bandwidth use to petty amounts in Canada, so if you're going to stream you'll most surely go over your bandwidth limit. Call me old fashioned, but I'd rather pay a $2 late fee than only have a "rental" for 24hrs. If I don't watch the rental in 24hrs I lose it (uh hum on demand) and have to pay the full price again for the flick.For those who are happy with video stores closing... Enjoy paying $70-80 for a video game that you did not even get to try first. They said MP3's would kill music stores, yet there are 3 music stores within 20km's of my house in Kanata.

Dan from Northern Ont
said

Mom and pop style stores usually have better prices for rentals (and better locations). Before it closed, the Blockbuster was like a 5 minute drive on the business street in town. There's a mom and pop store within walking distance though.But regardless streaming killed the video star err store.

Dave in F'ton
said

Seems to me that given how fast a DVD depreciates in value, people are just waiting until they're in the $5-10 bins. Mom and Pops in gas stations won't go anywhere. Perhaps Rogers needs more money for the Blue Jays to get Yu Darvish?

Mitch
said

The mom and pops shops will survive because they dont charge you 50% of a new movie price to rent it for a day.

Wes
said

We who live in the countryside have difficulty with Internet connections. They frequently fade out and are also very restrictive in terms of size of downloads. It becomes very expensive to view movies. So the local town has a video store that is our lifeline to movie entertainment. I sure hope it doesn't close!

grumpy ol man
said

When Blockbuster and Rogers came onto the scene 20 years ago they put the independant operators out of business, stating it was just competition and marketing.

What goes around comes around! In the future you can tell your grandkiddie's stories about how you use to walk through the video store for hours looking for something to watch. lol.

Kinda like going to the movies back in the 1930's before tv.

Blue Ray
said

There's a local mom and pop video store where I live and it's always busy on the weekends. Some people still haunt video stores, not many, but a few. Oddly enough they did close the Block Buster eyesore that was here.

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