Comments on: Trouble at the Video Store Part 2 http://www.thomaspurves.com/2008/04/22/trouble-at-the-video-store-part-2/ Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Greg Kelemen http://www.thomaspurves.com/2008/04/22/trouble-at-the-video-store-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-15040 Greg Kelemen Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:29:07 +0000 http://www.thomaspurves.com/?p=394#comment-15040 Video stores are a dead business.<br><br>So are the phone and cable companies. They're just hanging on.<br><br>Their version of 'innovation' is to look for the next great technology that will let them beat the other guys. All of them compete this way.<br><br>This just prolongs their suffering. Someone please bring them down from that cross! Video stores are a dead business.

So are the phone and cable companies. They're just hanging on.

Their version of 'innovation' is to look for the next great technology that will let them beat the other guys. All of them compete this way.

This just prolongs their suffering. Someone please bring them down from that cross!

]]> By: Thomas Purves http://www.thomaspurves.com/2008/04/22/trouble-at-the-video-store-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-12378 Thomas Purves Fri, 16 May 2008 14:34:37 +0000 http://www.thomaspurves.com/?p=394#comment-12378 Ha! that's perfect, they nailed it. Ha! that’s perfect, they nailed it.

]]> By: Thomas Purves http://www.thomaspurves.com/2008/04/22/trouble-at-the-video-store-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-44263 Thomas Purves Fri, 16 May 2008 14:34:00 +0000 http://www.thomaspurves.com/?p=394#comment-44263 Ha! that's perfect, they nailed it. Ha! that’s perfect, they nailed it.

]]> By: Dankind http://www.thomaspurves.com/2008/04/22/trouble-at-the-video-store-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-12376 Dankind Fri, 16 May 2008 01:36:38 +0000 http://www.thomaspurves.com/?p=394#comment-12376 Tom, Just saw this onion vid and made me think of your post! http://www.theonion.com/content/video/historic_blockbuster_store_offers Tom,

Just saw this onion vid and made me think of your post!

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/historic_blockbuster_store_offers

]]> By: Dankind http://www.thomaspurves.com/2008/04/22/trouble-at-the-video-store-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-44262 Dankind Fri, 16 May 2008 01:36:00 +0000 http://www.thomaspurves.com/?p=394#comment-44262 Tom, Just saw this onion vid and made me think of your post! http://www.theonion.com/content/video/historic_blockbuster_store_offers Tom,

Just saw this onion vid and made me think of your post!

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/historic_blockbuster_store_offers

]]> By: siobhan mclaughlin http://www.thomaspurves.com/2008/04/22/trouble-at-the-video-store-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-12351 siobhan mclaughlin Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:33:26 +0000 http://www.thomaspurves.com/?p=394#comment-12351 Great couple of posts! I had a similar experience when I thought I would go and buy a CD after not having bought any for quite some time. I dutifully went to HMV on Yonge. I passed stacks after stacks of AC/DC Back in Black but when I got to the World Music section I could not find the Youssou N'Dour CD I was after. Youssou N'Dour is a huge international star in Africa, France etc. I was so annoyed, I went that night over to Soundscapes on College Street and they had it (and more great African music)! But no AC/DC. Soundscapes is similar to Queen Video, the people who work there have the knowledge to pick out great stuff. With so much music available now my problem is not getting my hands on it but its the recommendations I need! sio. Great couple of posts! I had a similar experience when I thought I would go and buy a CD after not having bought any for quite some time. I dutifully went to HMV on Yonge. I passed stacks after stacks of AC/DC Back in Black but when I got to the World Music section I could not find the Youssou N’Dour CD I was after.

Youssou N’Dour is a huge international star in Africa, France etc. I was so annoyed, I went that night over to Soundscapes on College Street and they had it (and more great African music)! But no AC/DC.

Soundscapes is similar to Queen Video, the people who work there have the knowledge to pick out great stuff. With so much music available now my problem is not getting my hands on it but its the recommendations I need!

sio.

]]> By: siobhan mclaughlin http://www.thomaspurves.com/2008/04/22/trouble-at-the-video-store-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-44261 siobhan mclaughlin Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:33:00 +0000 http://www.thomaspurves.com/?p=394#comment-44261 Great couple of posts! I had a similar experience when I thought I would go and buy a CD after not having bought any for quite some time. I dutifully went to HMV on Yonge. I passed stacks after stacks of AC/DC Back in Black but when I got to the World Music section I could not find the Youssou N'Dour CD I was after. Youssou N'Dour is a huge international star in Africa, France etc. I was so annoyed, I went that night over to Soundscapes on College Street and they had it (and more great African music)! But no AC/DC. Soundscapes is similar to Queen Video, the people who work there have the knowledge to pick out great stuff. With so much music available now my problem is not getting my hands on it but its the recommendations I need! sio. Great couple of posts! I had a similar experience when I thought I would go and buy a CD after not having bought any for quite some time. I dutifully went to HMV on Yonge. I passed stacks after stacks of AC/DC Back in Black but when I got to the World Music section I could not find the Youssou N’Dour CD I was after.

Youssou N’Dour is a huge international star in Africa, France etc. I was so annoyed, I went that night over to Soundscapes on College Street and they had it (and more great African music)! But no AC/DC.

Soundscapes is similar to Queen Video, the people who work there have the knowledge to pick out great stuff. With so much music available now my problem is not getting my hands on it but its the recommendations I need!

sio.

]]> By: Graeme Donnelly http://www.thomaspurves.com/2008/04/22/trouble-at-the-video-store-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-12350 Graeme Donnelly Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:13:30 +0000 http://www.thomaspurves.com/?p=394#comment-12350 augmented reality. i like that. that IS what's needed. augmented reality. i like that. that IS what’s needed.

]]> By: Graeme Donnelly http://www.thomaspurves.com/2008/04/22/trouble-at-the-video-store-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-44260 Graeme Donnelly Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:13:00 +0000 http://www.thomaspurves.com/?p=394#comment-44260 augmented reality. i like that. that IS what's needed. augmented reality. i like that. that IS what’s needed.

]]> By: michele http://www.thomaspurves.com/2008/04/22/trouble-at-the-video-store-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-12349 michele Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:45:20 +0000 http://www.thomaspurves.com/?p=394#comment-12349 queen video survives (although for how much longer we don’t know) because it’s a physical place for trusted, curated knowledge, the physical, non-digitally networked precursor to the tomato-meter. this is where you go when you want to explore what’s off the beaten path - their rep for a certain flavour of media has been created for the exact reason stores like blockbuster are failing (and rottentomatoes is thriving) - through commitment to quality, authenticity, diversity, ideas. give this sense of place and ambiance, this rep for authenticity and quality, a digital nervous system, and link that to my digital life as well as ripping me a disc made to order (bespoke video? ;), and methinks i'll make the trek up the block. YES to physical place augmented with the affordances of digital space. i can haz dataspace? queen video survives (although for how much longer we don’t know) because it’s a physical place for trusted, curated knowledge, the physical, non-digitally networked precursor to the tomato-meter. this is where you go when you want to explore what’s off the beaten path – their rep for a certain flavour of media has been created for the exact reason stores like blockbuster are failing (and rottentomatoes is thriving) – through commitment to quality, authenticity, diversity, ideas.

give this sense of place and ambiance, this rep for authenticity and quality, a digital nervous system, and link that to my digital life as well as ripping me a disc made to order (bespoke video? ;) , and methinks i’ll make the trek up the block.

YES to physical place augmented with the affordances of digital space. i can haz dataspace?

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