Subj : Re: Ok .. Tyson or Jake?
To   : The Godfather
From : Adept
Date : Fri Nov 22 2024 09:32:41

 TG> Amazon, I haven't in some time, it was (in the distant past) more
 TG> complicated for me to find the new releases (if I  didn't know what they
 TG> were ..) than an end cap at a store however I'm sure that has changed.

I miss RedBox.

Mind you, I've mostly been out of the country, so I've missed it for slightly different reasons than people who were using it up until it mostly stopped existing, but still.

I guess I also miss Netflix DVDs, though that's further in the past.

For buying DVDs, I've avoided Amazon where I can, so have gotten familiar with random sites on the internet. E.g., media-dealer.de. It's a _little_ weird finding an ordering from a random internet site I haven't heard of before, but it wound up working out pretty well.

I think physical discs might still be a bit more common in Germany, though I'm not sure. But the challenge of finding something I want to buy is possibly easier online than in person, so I'm sure I'm part of the problem of declining sales.

I _have_ been using my local library more, though. Though it costs 1 Euro per DVD to borrow any DVD, which was different from in the US, where the only ones that cost anything (in the libraries I was familiar with) were ones that basically let you skip the line, and the libraries charging for it meant that the extra copies paid for themselves.

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